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Dublin: J. Moore, 1800. Hardcover. Acceptable. 8vo. 3 volume set. Cloth spine. J. Moore, 1800. Dublin imprint. 5th edition. Internally good, without marks or significant damage. Vol. 1 includes fold out map of Russia. Covers are worn, bindings chipped, front board of vol. 1 detached. Outer visage is not agreeable.
Des Progres de la Puissance Russe, depuis son Origine jusqu'au Commencement du XIXe Siecle by Lesur, Charles Louis - 1812
by Lesur, Charles Louis
Des Progres de la Puissance Russe, depuis son Origine jusqu'au Commencement du XIXe Siecle
by Lesur, Charles Louis
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Paris: Chez Fantin, Librarie, 1812. Quarter leather. Very Good. 8vo, 5 x 8, xiv + 514 pages Attractive red leather binding with marbleized boards and scuffing, primarily along edges. Interior foxed. Found two pages with small pieces torn off, not affecting the text.
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The Life of Catharine II. Empress of Russia: WIth a correct map of the Russian Empire (3 volumes) The Life of Catharine II. Empress of Russia: WIth a correct map of the Russian Empire (3 volumes) (Catherine)
by William Tooke
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STORIES FROM RUSSIA, SIBERIA, POLAND, AND CIRCASSIA. Beautifully illustrated.
by LEE. RUSSELL. Edits
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T. Nelson and sons. London. 1853. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7 x 4.6 inches). Frontis, vignette on extra title page and four full page engraved plates, each with a tissue guard. Aside from a couple of small water marks to the frontis and title pages this is a bright copy in original publishers red cloth with elaborate blind stanped decoration to both boards and spine. Gilt lettering to the centre of the front board and the spine. Yellow coated endpapers. A hint of fading to the spine and mild mottling to the front board but overall a lovely copy.
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The Rise of the Russian Empire
by Munro, Herbert H. (Saki)
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London and Boston : Grant Richards / L. C. Page & Co., 1900. SCARCE First Edition of his first published book. Herbert H. Munro would go on to write under the pen name of Saki or just H.H. Munro, becoming well-known for sardonic writing on Edwardian society, generally in the form of short stories. Very Good in original yellow cloth, the cloth lightly soiled, small rubs at spine ends and corners. slight toning to end pages, the name stamp of Rawson Bennett, front gutter and at p.143. Rawson Bennett was "Head of Electronics Design Division, from 1943 to 1946. He was awarded the Legion of Merit 'for exceptionally meritorious conduct' during his tour of duty in the Bureau of Ships. The citation further states: '(he) also designed sonic and supersonic underwater sound apparatus so urgently required by the Fleet for the destruction of Axis submarines and Japanese shipping"." He retired from the Navy as a Rear Admiral.(Naval History and Heritage Command website). . First…
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Alphabet
by Karimov, X.
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Stalinabad [Dushanbe]: Tajikistan State Publishing House. Good with no dust jacket; Boards toned and worn, dings to top edges of . front boards, pages toned, front hinge cracked.. 1956. Hardcover. Gray cloth spine with color illustrated paper-covered boards. Text in Tajik. Many illustrations. Folded printed alphabet sheet laid in. School primer published during the era of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. Many illustrations reflect Russification policies with depictions of obedient children studying, tractors and orderly agricultural scenes, factories, military equipment, Moscow landmarks, Lenin, and women hard at work with sewing machines. Not in WorldCat. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .
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Echoes From Russia: By the wife of Nicolas de Basily who drafted the Czar's abdication letter in 1917.
by Lascelle Meserve Basily
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This is a small book of poetry by Madame de Basily in English. Her story can be read on the Hoover Institution website. She is American born and the donor of the items in the Nicolas de Basily room. This book was published in Paris the year after her marriage in November, 1919. Her husband was the Diplomat of Imperial Russia 1903 - 1917. The poetry in this 31 page book is dated 1915 - 1917. It appears to be one of a kind. There are marbled end papers plus three from, front and back. The cover has wear as shown. There is foxing from page 21 onward. The poems are titled: In Tifles, The Cry of Holy Russia, Anarchist Lullaby, Human Wreckage, Afternoon Service in the Alexander Newsky Monastery, The Kremlin, White Night on the Gulf of Finland,Republic of Cronstadt, ProphesyTo Life. There is also a dedication to her mother. Mr. and Mrs. de Basily are buried in Baltimore. Land, Estates, and Wealth were never recovered in Russia.
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LA RUSSIE: MANUEL DU VOYAGEUR
by Baedeker, Karl.
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Leipzig & Paris: Karl Baedeker & Paul Ollendorff. Very Good+. 1902. Third Edition. Flexible cloth. Clean red flexible cloth with bright gilt titles on front cover and spine. Fold out color map frontispiece. Avec 19 cartes et 32 plans (Manuel De Langue Russe Edite A Part). Marbled page edges. French text, Russia; Maps & Plans; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 476 pages .
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STORIES FROM RUSSIA, SIBERIA, POLAND, AND CIRCASSIA. Beautifully illustrated.
by LEE. RUSSELL. Edits
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T. Nelson and sons. London. 1853. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7 x 4.6 inches). Frontis, vignette on extra title page and four full page engraved plates, each with a tissue guard. Aside from a couple of small water marks to the frontis and title pages this is a bright copy in original publishers red cloth with elaborate blind stanped decoration to both boards and spine. Gilt lettering to the centre of the front board and the spine. Yellow coated endpapers. A hint of fading to the spine and mild mottling to the front board but overall a lovely copy.
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The Rise of the Russian Empire
by Munro, Herbert H. (Saki)
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London and Boston : Grant Richards / L. C. Page & Co., 1900. SCARCE First Edition of his first published book. Herbert H. Munro would go on to write under the pen name of Saki or just H.H. Munro, becoming well-known for sardonic writing on Edwardian society, generally in the form of short stories. Very Good in original yellow cloth, the cloth lightly soiled, small rubs at spine ends and corners. slight toning to end pages, the name stamp of Rawson Bennett, front gutter and at p.143. Rawson Bennett was "Head of Electronics Design Division, from 1943 to 1946. He was awarded the Legion of Merit 'for exceptionally meritorious conduct' during his tour of duty in the Bureau of Ships. The citation further states: '(he) also designed sonic and supersonic underwater sound apparatus so urgently required by the Fleet for the destruction of Axis submarines and Japanese shipping"." He retired from the Navy as a Rear Admiral.(Naval History and Heritage Command website). . First…
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Alphabet
by Karimov, X.
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Stalinabad [Dushanbe]: Tajikistan State Publishing House. Good with no dust jacket; Boards toned and worn, dings to top edges of . front boards, pages toned, front hinge cracked.. 1956. Hardcover. Gray cloth spine with color illustrated paper-covered boards. Text in Tajik. Many illustrations. Folded printed alphabet sheet laid in. School primer published during the era of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. Many illustrations reflect Russification policies with depictions of obedient children studying, tractors and orderly agricultural scenes, factories, military equipment, Moscow landmarks, Lenin, and women hard at work with sewing machines. Not in WorldCat. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .
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Echoes From Russia: By the wife of Nicolas de Basily who drafted the Czar's abdication letter in 1917.
by Lascelle Meserve Basily
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This is a small book of poetry by Madame de Basily in English. Her story can be read on the Hoover Institution website. She is American born and the donor of the items in the Nicolas de Basily room. This book was published in Paris the year after her marriage in November, 1919. Her husband was the Diplomat of Imperial Russia 1903 - 1917. The poetry in this 31 page book is dated 1915 - 1917. It appears to be one of a kind. There are marbled end papers plus three from, front and back. The cover has wear as shown. There is foxing from page 21 onward. The poems are titled: In Tifles, The Cry of Holy Russia, Anarchist Lullaby, Human Wreckage, Afternoon Service in the Alexander Newsky Monastery, The Kremlin, White Night on the Gulf of Finland,Republic of Cronstadt, ProphesyTo Life. There is also a dedication to her mother. Mr. and Mrs. de Basily are buried in Baltimore. Land, Estates, and Wealth were never recovered in Russia.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
by Nijinsky, Romola
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Negotiating with the Soviets
by Raymond F. Smith
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Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and Institute with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, September 1989. Trade paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Slight reading wear to lower corners, otherwise Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 148 pages.
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SOVIET POLITICAL THOUGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY
by Jaworskyj, Michael (Editor)
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Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & spine, bumping to spine ends, scuffing to rear cover else still bright, intact and whole.
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Dmitry: Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia, 1605-1606
by Barbour, Philip L
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .
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Michael Strogoff: The Courier Of The Czar (PHOTOPLAY EDITION)
by Jules Verne
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Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.
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The Intimate Diary of a Russian Woman: My Search for Meaning in the Midst of My Country's Upheaval
by Romine, Elena
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New York, William Morrow & Co, 1992, hardcover, 236 pp, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the half-title page, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight. tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge bumps, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. A young woman writes candidly of a choice she feels she must make, between her country's uncertain future, and the promise of life in the West. Translation by Antonina W. Bouis. ISBN 9780688104160
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Lenin for Beginners (Pantheon Documentary Comic Books)
by A&Z; Richard Appignanesi; Oscar Zárate
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New York: Pantheon, March 1979. Trade Paperback. First Revised American Edition (stated) / first printing (no additional printings listed). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, very tight, and uncreased. Corners sharp. Very slight edge wear is the only thing keeping this from being As New. Its hard to imagine a 40+ year-old book in better condition than this. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 172 pages. Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia.
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Katalog Inkunabulov
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Leningradakogo: Univ. Nauchnoi Bibliotaki Im. Gor'kogo, 1967. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Russian text, with Latin 42, (18)pp. Bibliography. Suite of 18 b&w plates. Bound in white cloth boards, with white illustrated dust jacket. Light wear to book and jacket. Pencil notes on rear panel; Library bar-code sticker on rear endpaper. Very Good/Very Good.
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Please Don't Hate Me
by Tiomkin, Dimitri (and Prosper Buranelli)
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Garden City NY, Doubleday and Company, 1959, hardcover, 261 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, small light scuffs, slight wear to flap folds, spot of dampstain to heel of spine, signs of archival tape reinforcement to head of spine, closed tears to bottom of flaps, displays nicely in new Brodart sleeve. An ebullient memoir from the flamboyant musician, composer, and Academy Award winner, filled with personal stories and delightful anecdotes of the great figures in Russian, European, and American music and film. Illustrated with 16 black-&-white plates. Index appended.
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Russian Realities: Being Impressions Gathered During Some Recent Journeys in Russia
by Hubback, John
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London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Good in Fair dust jacket; Front boards and spine waterstained, boards . worn, owner name on front free endpaper, pages toned, jacket toned and . tattered and split in two.. 1915. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Green topstain. xv, 271pp. 9.5 x 13 inch folding map of Russia at rear. 16 photo reproductions. The author relates his travels through European regions of Russia in the years just before the Revolution, based on eleven short trips between 1910-1915. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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