Americana from Sounds of Forest OU

Very Good condition; cover shows slight rubbing, small creases across cover corners, repaired chipped off front cover corners and couple of small chippings on the cover edges, repaired spine ends; internally some minor foxing mainly on the first and last pages, charity association label on the title page. Current brochure, published by the Ministry of Agriculture and written by the… Read more about this item

Very goodcondition; white fine coating of the front cover has darkenedwith time and shows some soiling mailny to the edges, bookstore markings on the back cover, creases across cover corners, spine and missing piece of the bottom outer corner of front cover were repraired; internally creases across outer corners of the sheets, occasional fingerprints. Originally the brochure was wrapped in… Read more about this item

Print run 50,000 copies. Good condition; creases across upper corners of the wrappers, back wrapper is stained, moisture stains on the outer corners of the front wrapper; internally trace of moisture along fore-edge margin throughout the book gradually disappearing to the beginning. In 1949 publishing house of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU "Moskovskiy Raborchiy" (Moscow Worker) rated the… Read more about this item

Very good condition; cover shows slight soiling and color fading to the edges, creases across cover corners, replaced spine; internally occasional pencil markings in the text. The first multi-pronged research on public libraries in America published in Russia. It covers their history and legislation, state funding and private initiative, contribution of the American Library Association, education for librarianship (schools of… Read more about this item

Good condition: mostly uncut book which bottom edge was exposed to moisture, cover shows minor edge fraying, damaged ends of the spine. An overview of the life and work of the most influential American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892) with examples of his poetry. Whitman is considered the father of free-verse and predecessor of futurism, whom Semper puts in line with other… Read more about this item

Print run 1450 copies. Near fine condition: cover shows some foxing and slight rubbing along the edges, small creases across bottom corners of the cover; internally fine. The book tells the story about difficulties of two Estonan immigrants in US in the late 1920s. Being affected an impact of unemployment himself, author's own experience became the basis for the story. The… Read more about this item

Very Good condition; cover edges are slightly frayed, creases across cover corners, cover shows some rubbing, multiple creases along bottom edge of back cover, back cover is slightly soiled with moisture stain along the spine; internally slight foxing on the inner side of the wrappers, bookstore stamp on the inner side of back wrapper. Current travel fiction book about Estonian's… Read more about this item

Near fine condition; cover shows some foxing (extensive on the back wrapper) and creasing across corners; internally foxing throughout the book (mainly on the outer corners). The first Latvian translation of Sinclair's novel "The Metropolis" (Latvian edition) with striking avant-garde cover design by S. Vidbergs. Set in the exciting scene of New York city in 1907, the Metropolis depicts a duality… Read more about this item

Print run 5,000 copies. Good condition; replaced spine, book cover shows some soiling and creasing across corners, small closed horizontal tears on the wrappers along spine fold, bookstore stamp on the back wrapper; internally few occasional fingerprints. The travelogue authored by well-known German-Jewish journalist, press secretary of the Prussian ministry during the Weimar Republic Hans Goslar (1889-1945) was first published… Read more about this item

Print run 10,000 copies. Near fine condition; slight wear at spine ends, bumped bottom corners of the cover; internally fine. The compilation of American poetry containing the poems of many iconic American poets first published and translated into Russian by M. Zenkevich and I. Kashkin. As follows from the compilers' introductory, the collection focuses mainly on the period between 1910… Read more about this item

Print run 4,000 copies. Good- condition; complete copy without losses, original illustrated cardboard binding shows rubbing and edge wear, cover corners are rounded; internally occasional foxing and extensive fingerprints throughout the book, missing small piece of the bottom margin of the last page (text is untouched), bookstore markings on the back endsheet. In 1921-22 an American successful screenwtiter and journalist… Read more about this item