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SULAMITH : A Prose Poem of Antiquity, Translated from the Russian by B. Guilbert Guerney
Edition: First US printing
New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1923. 12mo, cloth and boards with spine label. pp (160) + colour frontispiece. Spine a little darkened, with slight wear at ends; yellowing to page edges; mild soiling to boards; soft crease to front free endpaper; VG jacketless copy otherwise.
Book ID: 43267More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE BEDBUG and selected poetry. Edited by Patricia Blake. Translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey
Edition: First of this edition
New York & Cleveland: World, 1970. Octavo, orange cloth. Sticker stain on front free endpaper, text paper lightly toned, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. Previously published by Meridian in 1960.
Book ID: 37018More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE BIG SILVER BOOK OF RUSSIAN VERBS
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Second edition. Glossy card covers. pp iv, 667. Fine copy. 555 fully conjugated verbs in all tenses. Russian text in the Cyrillic alphabet, with English commentary. 1.42 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 54166More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
THE BRATSK STATION and Other Poems. Translated by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner, Geoffrey Dutton and Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin. Foreword by Peter Levi.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Hart-Davis, 1967. Reddish boards. 253, (3) pp. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has minute rubbing to head of spine, light yellowing to white rear panel, else fine.
Book ID: 6200More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE CLAWS OF THE BEAR. A History of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1917 to the Present.
Edition: First Edition
London: Hutchinson, 1989. Maroon boards. xx, 468 pp + plates. Fine copy. Jacket has small rubbed spot to head of spine, else fine. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 9550More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE COLLECTED STORIES. Edited by Nathalie Babel. Translated with notes by Peter Constantine. Introduction by Cynthia Ozick
Edition: First printing
New York: Norton, 2002. Card covers. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53873More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE CREATED LEGEND: authorized translation from the Russian by John Cournos
Edition: First edition in English
Book ID: 44557More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
THE CRUISE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT: Explorations and Hunting in the Alaskan and Siberian Arctic. In which the Sea-Scouts have a great adventure
Edition: First printing
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo, black cloth gilt, endpaper maps. pp (2), (xvi), 317. Many photos in text. Yellowing to page edges; soft bumps to outer corners of covers; else a fine, bright & tight copy, no owner names, no flaking to the cover gilt. An expedition through the Bering Stait to Port Hope and Wrangel Island. Borden Field Museum 1927 Alaska Arctic Expedition, endorsed by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In search of brown bears, polar bears, walrus, and seals. AB 1978. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 31428More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
THE DECAY OF CZARISM. The Beiliss Trial. A Contribution to the History of the Political Reaction During the Last Years of Russian Czarism. Based on Unpublished Materials in the Russian Archives. Translated from the Russian Original.
Condition: Good
Book ID: 13329More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE DIARIES OF SOPHIA TOLSTOY.
Edition: First US issue
New York: Random, 1985. Black cloth, endpaper geneaology. pp (xxxvi), 1043 + plates. Index, Faint damp staining to fore and bottom page edges, near fine otherwise. Jacket has some crinkling to the surface lamination, VG otherwise. 1.85 kg parcel; Thick octavo 0394528182
Book ID: 52856More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
The Eastern Front 1914-1917
London: Penguin, c1998. 5th printing. pp 348. Notes, index. Ink owner name at front, VG clean & unworn copy otherwise. This paperback edition adds an informative 5 page author introduction to the text of the 1975 hardcover edition. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. 0140267255
Book ID: 44196More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
THE EMERGENCE OF MOSCOW 1304-1359.
Edition: First UK edition
London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. Black cloth. 352 pp, indexed, map in text. Spotting to spine and front cover; ink name to lower front pastedown; else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy in a VG+ jacket. 0436152509.
Book ID: 22076More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
THE FIRST BOLSHEVIK: a political biography of Peter Tkachev
Edition: First Edition
New York University Press, 1968. Red cloth. pp 221 + plates. Ink owner name at front, else fine in very nearly fine jacket. First full-length treatment of this 19th century radical who was a strong influence on Lenin. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48723More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: its impact on Asia
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1962. 180 pp, bibliography, index. Ink call numbers to upper inner corner of front cover but no other library marks; ink owner names in top margin of first page; VG clean, tight and unworn otherwise, no text marks. The hardcover edition was in 1962, this paperback edition is later (1967?). Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44024More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
THE FISHERMEN. Translated and with a Preface by Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport.
London / Philadelphia: London: Stanley Paul / David McKay, no date [1926]. New edition (first UK was in 1916). 16mo, dark green cloth stamped in black and blind, with a nice floral decoration to spine and front cover. [4], 368 pp. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has large chips to spine tips and panels, edge tears; fair. The 12th volume in the publisher's International Library series. "Dimitry Gregorovitxh, whose novel THE FISHERMEN now appears for the first time in English dress, entered the arena of Russian Literature almost simultaneously with Tourgeniev, and is rightly considered to be one of the best exponents of the life of the Russian working people." - translator's preface. Uncommon book, even more so in any kind of jacket. "The Russian Dickens".
Book ID: 16705More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE
Edition: First US printing
New York: Viking, 1958. Cloth and boards. pp (xii), 212 + plates. Bookplate and owner name at front, VG otherwise. Jacket has small chips to spine ends, VG otherwise. Battle of Tsu-Shima, Russo-Japanese War. Japanese admiral Togo destroyed the Russian fleet, which ended the war. marked the emergence of Japan as a world power, and was one of the causes of the Russian Revolution. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47805More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
The Frigate Pallada. Translated by Klaus Goetze
Edition: First of this translation
Book ID: 25753More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE HASKALAH MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA.
Edition: First Edition
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1913. Green cloth. 355 pp + frontispiece. Notes, bibliography, index. VG+ copy, no owner names. "Haskala ("enlightenment" or "education"; often termed the "Jewish Enlightenment") was an extensive intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those residing in Western Europe and Muslim lands. Active from the 1770s to the 1880s, the Haskala advocated integration of the Jews into their surrounding societies, encouraging among others the adoption of local vernaculars, secular studies and economic productivization. Concurrently, the movement promoted a Jewish cultural revival, manifested mainly in the creation of modern Hebrew literature." - Wikipedia.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 9009More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
THE LION OF TASHKENT: The Career of General M.G. Cherniaev.
Book ID: 10352More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55
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THE LONELY YEARS: the Lonely Years 1925-1939: Unpublished Stories and Private Correspondence
Boston: Godine, 1995. Card covers. Three black dots to fore edges, else fine. Edited and with a new introduction by Nathalie Babel, not contained in the 1964 hardcover edition. ; Octavo 0879239786
Book ID: 53227More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76