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CHEKHOV'S LEADING LADY: a portrait of the actress Olga Knipper
Edition: First US printing
New York: Franklin Watts, 1980. Yellow boards. pp viii, 288 + plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52828More details Price: USD $18.95 -
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF SLAVIC LITERATURES. Translated by Richard Noel Porter and Martin P. Price. Edited, with a Foreword, by George A. Zenkovsky.
Edition: First American edition
Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. Octavo, pale green printed cloth without dust jacket, as issued. (xii), 225, [3] pp. Bookplate and small ink date to front pastedown, else a fine copy, no marks in text.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 14987More details Price: USD $19.95 -
Comrade Valentine
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47779More details Price: USD $14.95 -
Death Or Glory: The Legacy Of The Crimean War
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1999. Card covers. pp 288; photos, index. Ink owner name, VG+.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48119More details Price: USD $7.95 -
Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905
Edition: First printing
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988. Black cloth. pp 266; notes, index. Ink owner name, owner blind stamp on title leaf, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48114More details Price: USD $16.95 -
EASTWARD TO EMPIRE: exploration and conquest on the Russian open frontier to 1750
Edition: First Edition
Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 1973. Octavo, white cloth. pp x, 276, (2). Fine in jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 35295More details Price: USD $25.00 -
FRIDAYS
Moscow: 1965. Squarish 16mo, pp (100), cream printed paper covers in illustrated jacket printed in red and black. Short tear to bottom edge of front cover, text paper lightly toned, VG+ otherwise. Dust jacket has short tears, small chip, at spine ends; VG otherwise. Inscribed by the author to important Canadian poet Miriam Waddington, signed "Rimma". A collection of poetry by this notable Russian poet. Note: books is entirely in Russian.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41873More details Price: USD $35.00 -
GOLD AND PLATINUM COINAGE OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA FROM 1701 TO 1911: a compilation of all known types and varieties
Edition: First edition
New York: The Crown and Taler Publishing Company, 1958. Red cloth. pp (80) + 17 plates. Tape residue to free endpapers, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50189More details Price: USD $24.95 -
GOLDEN GATE TO GOLDEN HORN: Camp Fremont, California & the American Expedition to Siberia of 1918
San Mateo, CA: San Mateo County Historical Association, no date (1980). (90) pp side stapled in cream card covers. Reproduced from typescript, photos at rear. Soft cover creases, VG otherwise. #38 of an edition of 500 copies.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47785More details Price: USD $19.95 -
GONCHAROV
Edition: First printing
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1954. Grey cloth. pp 62. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has rubbing to ends, VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50306More details Price: USD $14.95 -
HARVEST ON THE DON. A Sequel to VIRGIN SOIL UPTURNED. Translated from the Russian by H.C. Stevens.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Putnam, 1960. Black boards. Fine copy. White spine of jacket lightly yellowed, else fine, flap price intact.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 50558More details Price: USD $24.95 -
Imperial Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898-1904
Edition: First edition in English
Hurst & Company, 1995. Black boards. pp x, 342. Map at front, index, bibliography, notes. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Jacket has some spine fading, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43841More details Price: USD $22.00 -
Journey for Our Time: The Journals of the Marquis de Custine - Russia, 1839. Edited and translated by Phyllis Penn Kohler. Introduction by Lieut.-General Walter Bedell-Smith
London: George Prior, 1980. Red boards. pp 240. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. First published in 1843. This is a facsimile reprint, with new introduction, of the London: Arthur Barker, 1953, edition. " "His observations on the social, political, and religious state and prospects of Russia, made during a journey in 1839, led him to dire forebodings. He found that Russia's goal was conquest of the world and that she looked upon Europe as a prey which our dissensions will sooner or later deliver up to her." Felt to be a timely publication in the years of the Cold War.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48435More details Price: USD $18.95 -
KOSTIA THE COSSACK: an historical novel translated from the Russian by Olga Vitali and Natalie Tsytovitch. Edited, with a foreword by Henry Irving Brock
Edition: First edition in English
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42965More details Price: USD $30.00 -
LARGO: a novel. Translated by Olga Vitali
Edition: First edition in English
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42969More details Price: USD $34.95 -
LEO TOLSTOY AND HIS WORKS
New York: Oxford University Press, no date (1930s). Red cloth lettered in black. pp (4), (76). Includes a portrait drawing. Ink owner name, light damp stain to front cover. VG, clean & unworn otherwise. I believe this may have been issued to accompany the Oxford collected edition of 1929-37. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52616More details Price: USD $18.95 -
MAN AND MYSTERY IN ASIA
Edition: First UK printing
London: Arnold, 1924. Blue cloth. xii, (296), 12 (ads) pp. Map to rear endpapers, frontispiece portrait inserted. Text paper lightly toned; a VG+ clean, tight, bright and unworn copy, no owner names. "Dr. Ossendowski was early recognized as one of the leading authorities on the coals and carboniferous deposits of the Pacific Provinces from the Behring Straits to Korea. He knows intimately a large percentage along the placer and quartz gold mines of all Siberia." - foreword. Adventures and observations in Siberia, Turkestan, Sakhalin Island, the Altai.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 17122More details Price: USD $39.95 -
Mikhail Zoshchenko: Evolution of a Writer
Edition: First edition.
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Octavo, blue boards without jacket, as issued. pp (xvi), 296. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 33218More details Price: USD $24.95 -
Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War In History And Imagery
Boston: MFA Publications, 2005. Card covers. pp 92. Colour and b&w illustrations. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48703More details Price: USD $12.95 -
Nabokov: a bibliography
Edition: First printing
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. Cloth & boards. pp xxvi, 249. Index. Page edges yellowed, very soft crease to fore margin of front free endpaper, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50636More details Price: USD $14.95