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PLATONOV. Adapted by Susan Coyne and Laszlo Marton
Edition: First printing
Winnipeg: Sirocco Drama, 2001. Inscribed by contributor; Glossy card covers. Fine copy. Inscribed by Susan Coyne to a noted Canadian literary couple.; Signed by contributor
Book ID: 53168More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
PLATONOV. An Abridged Version of an Untitled Play in Four Acts. Translated by Dmitri Makaroff, with an Introduction by George Devine.
Edition: First of this translation
London: Methuen, 1961. 12mo, 140 pp, black boards. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Dust jacket is a bit rubbed, with a half inch creased tear to front panel at outer corner, half inch tear to top spine fold, VG otherwise. Chekhov's first play, written in the early 1880s when he was still a student and never presented or even published in his lifetime. First ed. in English was in 1930. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 14272More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
POEMS. Translated by L. Slater. Foreword by Hugh MacDiarmid
Fairwarp, Sussex, UK: Peter Russell, 1959. Second edition, with revisions and additional poems. pp (38), (2, ads) + frontispiece portrait. Printed card covers with dust jacket. Small soft bump to lower outer corners, else fine. Jacket has a very small sticker shadow on front panell, spine lightly yellowed, small spots on rear cover, VG otherwise. First published 1958, this editioin was translated by Pasternak's sister and the portrait, which is first published here, is by his father. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; 12mo
Book ID: 50167More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
Prehistory of Western Siberia
Arctic Institute of North America /McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. Tall octavo, maroon cloth. pp (xxviii), 377 + 2 folding maps at rear; many text illustrations. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has a large skinned spot to upper front panel, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required. 0773590749
Book ID: 35148More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
RASPUTIN: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
Edition: First printing
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016. Inscribed by Author; Dark grey boards. pp (xxviii), 817 + plates. Index, maps. Inscribed by the author. Soft crease at head of spine, else fine. Jacket has soft crease at head of spine, else fine. 1.43 kg parcel; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 54031More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
RED SUN RISING: the siege of Port Arthur
Edition: First printing
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1962. Red cloth, pp 210, notes, bibliography, index. Ink owner name, very nearly fine otherwise. Jacket has short tears, sunning to red portions of spine, VG otherwise. Great Battles of History series.Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.; Octavo
Book ID: 47954More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION 1890-1918
Edition: First US printing
New York: New American Library, c1966. Red & black cloth. pp 352. Index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48436More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. Second printing. Red cloth. pp 407. Photos in text. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket.; Octavo 0300043716
Book ID: 48329More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
RUSSIAN AND GERMANY AT BREST-LITOVSK. A Documentary History of the Peace Negotiations
Edition: First Edition
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919. Terra cotta cloth. pp 192. Spine a little sunned; dam stains with colour loss to margins of covers; text paper lightly toned; small bookplate; else a good, clean, tight and unworn copy of a scarce book. "With the following documentary account of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Negotiations, hitherto an unwritten chapter in the history of the Russian Revolution, the Department of Labor Research begins the publication of a series of monogrpahs on economic and political questions which it hoped will prove valuable contributions to the literature of the Socialist and Labor movements." - from the introductory note by Alexander Trachtenberg.; Octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 26062More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings 1589-1605. Edited with Introduction, Additional Notes, Commentaries and Bibliography by...Texts translated by Anthony Mango
Book ID: 29481More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50
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SAMSON IN CHAINS: Posthumous Tragedy. Authorized Translation from the Original Manuscript and a Preface by Herman Bernstein
Edition: First American Edition
New York: Brentano's, 1923. Octavo, black cloth lettered in red, red endpapers, red top edges. Spine lightly sunned; two small glue spots on front pastedown; toning to text paper; VG jacketless copy otherwise, no owner names.
Book ID: 32155More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
SELECTED ESSAYS. Translated by Aylmer Maude
New York: Modern Library, c1964. Green cloth. Rubber stamp to front free endpaper, else a VG+ jacketless copy. ; 16mo
Book ID: 54170More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
SELECTED WRITINGS OF ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. Translated with an introduction and commentaries by Alix Holt
Edition: First US issue
Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill, 1977. Black boards. pp 335. Bibliography, index. Text paper toned, as always, else fine in near fine jacket. "Alexandra Kollontai [was] the only woman member of the Bolshevik central committee and the USSR's first Minister of Social Welfare-is known today as a historic contributor to the international women's movement, and as one of the first Bolshevik leaders to oppose the growth of the bureaucracy in the young socialist state."- jacket.; Octavo
Book ID: 51462More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
SEMINARY SKETCHES. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Alfred R. Kuhn.
Edition: First edition in English
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. Blue cloth. (xxxviii), (230), [4] pp. Fine in VG+ jacket. Written in 1862, by the most gifted of the "plebian novelists", it describes the brutal "education" of boys in training for the Russian Orthodox priesthood. This same training helped shape the minds of many Russian radicals (Stalin, for one) and to instill in them a hatred for the church.
Book ID: 41545More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
SIBIR: my discovery of Siberia
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Light green cloth. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has a bit of rubbing, else VG+. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (simple signature, no inscription).; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55546More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
SIBIR: my discovery of Siberia
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Light green cloth. VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names, in a worn, chipped and torn, jacket, just fair.; Octavo
Book ID: 48793More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
SONS OF THE MAMMOTH. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Graham
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1929. Original tan cloth lettered in black. 254 pp. Short abrasion to lower edge of front cover, slight sunning to the green top page edges; bit of yellowing to endpapers, half-title page, page edges; else fine. Light blue-green jacket has spine and margins of panels sunned to tan; white spine lettering faint; some internal tape repairs; fair. From the Stuart Teitler collection of Lost Race Fiction. Prehistoric novel, including a giant dinosaur. Natan Mendelevich Bogoraz, a.k.a. Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz, a.k.a. Waldemar Bogoras, was a famous Russian revolutionary, anthropologist, and author, very popular in Russia under the pseudonym "N.A. Tan". ; Fair
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 44852More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, c1994. Second printing. Red cloth. pp 464 + plates; Index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a corner crease to front flap, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo 0300060564
Book ID: 48648More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Stepan Osipovic Makarov, 1848-1904
Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1951. Squarish 12mo, blue cloth spine and blue pictorial boards. pp (432) + frontispiece portrait and other plates. + 3 folding maps. Chronology, notes. Rubber stamp with ink notation inside rear cover, edges of boards and outer corners worn, VG clean and tight copy otherwise. Biography of the distinguished Russian Vice-Admiral. Note: book is entirely in Russian.
Book ID: 44085More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
STRONG WORDS: poetry in a Russian and English edition. Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, Andrei Voznesensky
Edition: First Printing
Holstein, ON: Exile, 2013. Russian and English texts on facing pages. ; 16mo
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 54933More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96