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50 Years Ago: The Famine Holocaust in Ukraine. Terror and Human Misery as Instruments of Soviet Russian Imperialism. Foreword by Dana G. Dalrymple
Toronto: World Congress of Free Ukrainians, 1983. Second printing. 56 pp, stapled, in card covers. Numerous photos in text. Fine copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location. ; Octavo
Book ID: 29114More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A Field Guide to Birds of USSR including Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Octavo, brown cloth. pp (xxxvi), (354) + colour plates. 71 b/w figures, 303 b/w maps, index. Fine in fine jacket. 0691082448
Book ID: 46343More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A NEST OF HEREDITARY LEGISLATORS. By Ivan S. Turguenieff. Done into English from the edition of Turguenieff's works published by Mr. Glazoonoff, St. Petersburg, 1913.
Edition: First of this translation
Book ID: 13228More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
ABOUT LOVE: 3 stories. Translated by David Helwig. Designed and decorated by Seth
Edition: First printing
(Windsor, ON): Biblioasis, 1992. Inscribed by the translator; Pictoria cloth without jacket as issued. Inscribed by the translator to noted Canadian author Leon Rooke. Fine copy of this strikingly illustrated book. ; 12mo; Signed by the translator
Book ID: 53219More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF RUSSIA
Edition: First Edition
London & Toronto: Dent, no date (1914). Two volumes, thick octavos, original maroon cloth, spines gilt lettered, title pages in red and black, top edges gilt. pp xxxii, 614, (1, ad); xxii, 630, (2). Volume I has chips and tears at fore edges to a few leaves near centre from careless opening (well away from any text), and just a few scattered light and easily erasable pencil notes: tidy ink owner name at front of Vol. II; light toning to the text paper; otherwise a fine, jacketless pair. Mavor was Prof. of Political Economy at the University of Toronto. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 31228More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
ANATHEMA, a tragedy in seven scenes. Authorized tanslation by Herman Bernstein
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Macmillan, 1910. 12mo. Dark blue cloth. pp (vi), (211), (1), (4, ads), (2). Spine lightly darkened, with slight wear at ends, VG otherwise, no owner names.
Book ID: 32154More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World
Edition: First printing
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. Black cloth. pp 370 + plates; index. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo 0312363990
Book ID: 48683More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ANISSIA: the life story of a Russian peasant. Revised and corrected by Leo Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian with notes and a preface by Charles Salomon
Edition: First UK printing
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1924. Blue cloth with paper spine label. Small red previous owner's rubber stamp on front free endpaper; page edges lightly yellowed; else fine and quite bright. Thin red on buff jacket has chips to ends of bit darkened spine just touching the title at top; short shallow chip to rear panel; bit of tanning to panels and flap folds; VG generally, still attractive. An uncommon book, scarce in jacket. ; 12mo
Book ID: 54385More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak
Edition: First printing
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Cloth & boards. pp xviii, 321 + plates. Notes, index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has light rubbing, else fine. An investigation of an anthrax outbreak in 1979 in Sverdlovsk in Russia's Ural Mountains. This hardcover is out of print. The paperback edition is available (2017) for USD 33.95. 0520222040
Book ID: 47214More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel. Translated by Anne Frydman & Robert L. Busch
South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1998. Card covers. pp (xxxiv), (172). Photos in text. Front cover a bit curled, else a fine copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo 1883642981
Book ID: 52675More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
AUGUST 1914. translated by Michael Glenny
Edition: First edition in English
London: Bodley Head, 1972. Red boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a nick and tiny chip at head of spine, else fine, flap price intact. 1.5 kg
Book ID: 41573More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Bakunin, the father of anarchism
Edition: First US printing
New York: Saturday Review Press / Dutton, 1974. Cloth & boards. pp 279; notes, index. Ink owner name, else fine in VG jacket. ; Octavo 0841502951
Book ID: 48370More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Bering: The Russian Discovery of America
Edition: First Edition
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Cloth and boards. pp xxii, 330. Illustrated, index. Fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo 0300100590
Book ID: 51682More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Bering's Search for the Strait: The First Kamchatka Expedition 1725-1730
Edition: First Edition
Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. Maroon cloth. 214 pp. Endpaper maps, maps, notes, sources, index. Fine in fine jacket. ; Narrow quarto 0875952240
Book ID: 51641More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Bering's Voyages: Whither and Why
Edition: First Edition
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. Maroon boards, endpaper maps. pp (xiv), 217. Maps in text, index. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket faintly yellowed on spine, else fine. ; Octavo 0295955627
Book ID: 51681More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BORN OF THE STORM. Translated from the Russian by Louise Luke Hiler
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Critics Group Press, 1939. Brown cloth. pp [2], (252). Endpaper yellowing, else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy. Clipped portion (only) of jacket laid in. Young Ukrainian Red's second novel, left unfinished at his death in 1935. He won the Order of Lenin for THE MAKING OF A HERO. An unfinished historical nove set in the year 1918 about the struggles of the Ukrainian people against German and Polish aggression, basis of a 1981 Soviet film. ; Octavo.
Book ID: 27443More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
CATHERINE, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961. Mauve cloth, pp 312. Ink owner name, VG otherwise. Jacket has nicks and small chips at head of spine, VG otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47962More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Charting the Russian Northern Sea Route: The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition 1910-1915. Translated and Edited by William Barr
Edition: First edition in English
Montreal and London: Arctic Institute of North America / McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976. Green boards. pp xxxiv, 332 + plates. Light foxing to page edges, VG otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has a fingernail-size chip and some tears; good.; Octavo. 0773502106
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 32681More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Charting the Russian Northern Sea Route: The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition 1910-1915. Translated and Edited by William Barr
Edition: First edition in English
Montreal and London: Arctic Institute of North America / McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976. Green boards. pp xxxiv, 332 + plates. Fine in VG+ jacket, no owner names.; Octavo. 0773502106
Book ID: 25909More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CHEKHOV: a life in letters. Translated and edited by Gordon McVay
Edition: First Printing
London: Folio Society, 1994. Black cloth gilt lettered. pp xxii, 378 + plates; index. Fine in fine slipcase. 1.2 kg parcel; B&W Illustrations; Octavo
Book ID: 54729More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96