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  • ARTZIBASHEF, Michael
    THE MILLIONAIRE. Translated by Percy Pinkerton. With an Introduction by the author

    Edition: First US issue

    New York: Huebsch, 1915. Black cloth lettered in red. pp (244). Made from UK (Secker) sheets.. Frayed at spine ends; light foxing and yellowing to endpapers; else a VG clean and unworn copy. Two novellas and a short story, with an autobiographical sketch. ; Octavo.

    Book ID: 50592
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  • Grey, Elizabeth (W.H. Russell)
    The noise of drums and trumpets: W. H. Russell reports from the Crimea

    Edition: First US issue

    New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1972. Red pictorial buckram. pp 255, maps, illustrations. Bound in a sturdy library style binding but not an ex library copy. Ink owner name, else fine. Famous journalist W.H. Russell's reports from the Crimean War. ; Octavo 0809831015

    Book ID: 47940
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  • ARMSTRONG, Terence
    THE NORTHERN SEA ROUTE: Soviet exploration of the North East Passage

    Edition: First Edition

    Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, for the Scott Polar Research Institute, 1952. Blue cloth. pp (xiv), 162 + 3 double-sided plates + folding map at rear. Maps in text. Index. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has some small chips, yellowed spine, VG otherwise. Soviet shipping along the north coast of Siberia. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 50815
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  • IGNATIEFF, Michael
    The Russian Album

    Edition: First US printing

    New York: Viking, 1987. Inscribed by Author; Octavo, cloth and boards. Tiny bump to upper outer corner of front boards, head of spine softly creased, else fine in fine jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Canadian author & impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading, with the inscribee's tidy ink name and date at front. This book won a Governor-General's Award for non-fiction; Signed by Author 0670810576

    Book ID: 37895
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  • IGNATIEFF, Michael
    The Russian Album

    Edition: First US printing

    New York: Viking, 1987. UNCORRECTED PROOF in blue card covers. Octavo. pp (xii), 185, (5). Fine copy. Front cover and title page have a white printed label correcting a mis-spelling of "Ignatieff". Projected publication date (8/87) and price in ink by hand in the appropriate printed space on front cover. This book won a Governor-General's Award for non-fiction.

    Book ID: 38337
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  • COWLES, Virginia
    THE RUSSIAN DAGGER: cold war in the days of the Czars

    Edition: First US printing

    New York: Harper & Row, c1969, 1970. Black cloth, pp 351 + plates; index. Ink owner name, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has slight spine sunning, VG. An account of Russian expansion into Europe, notably the Balkans. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 48064
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  • Hingley, Ronald
    The Russian secret police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian, and Soviet political security operations

    Edition: First US printing

    New York: Simon and Schuster, c1970. Red cloth. pp 313, bibliography, index. Remainder stripe to bottom page edges, ink owner name at front, foxing to page edges, else VG clean and unworn copy in VG jacket.; Octavo 0671208861

    Book ID: 47792
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  • ANDREYEV, Leonid
    THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED. Illustrated by Irving Politzer

    New York: Illustrated Editions, 1941. Canadian issue, with label of The Canadian Book & Supply Company, Toronto, pasted over the title page imprint. Quarter bound in tan and blue cloth stamped in red and gilt. Translation by Herman Bernstein. Spine has a nick at head, a small dark spot, and a bit of tanning; tanning to endpapers and page edges; old rubber stamped prince at front; VG clean and unworn copy otherwise of this classic of Russian literature. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 52792
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  • EHRENBURG, Ilya
    THE SPRING.

    Edition: First UK edition

    London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1961. Small octavo, 208 pp. Red boards. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Orange price-clipped jacket has minor rubbing, dust soiling; VG+, bright attractive. A novel of Soviet Russia by one of the leading Soviet writers of the time, translated by Humphrey Higgins from its 1956 appearance in the Moscow magazine "Znamya".

    Book ID: 11259
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  • Wise, David
    The spy who got away: the inside story of the CIA agent who betrayed his country

    Edition: First UK printing

    London: Collins, 1988. Black cloth. pp (289), index + plates. Fine in fine jacket. Story of Edward Lee Howard, CIA agent who went over to the Russian side. ; Octavo 0002157810

    Book ID: 48633
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  • FLETCHER, John Gould
    THE TWO FRONTIERS. A Study in Historical Psychology.

    Edition: First printing

    New York: Coward-McCann, 1930. Octavo, maroon cloth gilt lettered, tan endpapers. [6], 377 pp. Spine lightly darkened with gilt lettering a bit dulled but still easily readable; slight foxing to top page edges, light rubbing to spine tips; else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy of this study of the contrasting political and historical evolution of America and Russia. Published in the UK in 1930, from US sheets, as EUROPE'S TWO FRONTIERS. Fletcher is best known as a poet. Uncommon book. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

    Book ID: 13907
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  • CHEKHOV, Anton
    THE UNKNOWN CHEKHOV: stories and other writings. Translated and with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky

    New York: Ecco Press, 1984. Card covers. Near fine, no owner marks. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 53952
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  • FISHER, Raymond H., editor
    THE VOYAGE OF SEMEN DEZHNEV IN 1648: BERING'S PRECURSOR. With selected documents.

    Edition: First Edition

    London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. Sky blue cloth, bright gilt cover insignia and spine titles. Fine in near fine jacket. [xiv], 326 pp. (includes a 17-page bibliography and 20-page index), 21 maps in the text + 1 folding map at rear. 'In 1736 Gerhard Müller ... uncovered ... reports briefly describing a voyage in 1648 from the Arctic river, Kolyma, ... to a point south of the Pacific river, Anadyr'.' - from the dj flap. Althought the details of the voyage were few, Müller concluded that it demonstrated the separation of Asia and America, a matter insufficiently determined in 1728 by Vitus Bering. It became a factor in sending Captain Cook to the north Pacific to look for a…

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    London: The Hakluyt Society, 1981. Sky blue cloth, bright gilt cover insignia and spine titles. Fine in near fine jacket. [xiv], 326 pp. (includes a 17-page bibliography and 20-page index), 21 maps in the text + 1 folding map at rear. 'In 1736 Gerhard Müller ... uncovered ... reports briefly describing a voyage in 1648 from the Arctic river, Kolyma, ... to a point south of the Pacific river, Anadyr'.' - from the dj flap. Althought the details of the voyage were few, Müller concluded that it demonstrated the separation of Asia and America, a matter insufficiently determined in 1728 by Vitus Bering. It became a factor in sending Captain Cook to the north Pacific to look for a northwest or northeast passage between Europe and the Pacific. (Hakluyt Society Second Series No. 159.); Octavo 0904180077

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    Book ID: 26366
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  • Hryhorijiv, N.
    The war and Ukrainian democracy; a compilation of documents from from the past and present

    Toronto: Printed by the Industrial and Educational Publishing Co, 1945. Brown cloth. pp 206. Tanning to page edges, light toning to text paper; margins of front pastedown nibbled (mostly hidden by jacket flap); small bookplate; tiny holes to fore margin of front flly leaf; else VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Dust jacket is dust soiled, with a few damp spots; snag on rear panel; mainly VG otherwise.; Octavo

    Book ID: 26061
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  • TOLSTOY, Leo
    TOLSTOY'S LETTERS. Selected, edited, and translated by R.E. Christian (2 volumes)

    Edition: First printing

    New York: Scribner's, 1978. Two volumes, dark blue cloth. Vol. I: 1828-1879, pp (xvi), 336 + plates. Vol. II: 1880-1910 including Index. Fine pair. Dust jackets sunned to spines and inner margins of panels; creases to rear flap of Vol.I; VG otherwise. 1.65 kg parcel; Octavo

    Book ID: 54516
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  • Meyer, Karl E. ; Shareen Blair Brysac
    Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

    Washington, D.C: Counterpoint, 1999. Card covers, pp 646 + plates; map at front, index. Ink name at front, outer margins of covers curled, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo 158243106x

    Book ID: 47821
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  • CRAD, Joseph
    TRAILING THROUGH SIBERIA

    Edition: First of this edition

    London: The Travel Book Club, 1939. Octavo, grey cloth. pp (xii), 270 (4) + 2 maps (one folding). Spine very lightly darkened; VG+ clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy otherwise, no owner names. Account of life among the Eskimo of northwest Alaska and northeast Siberia.

    Book ID: 31431
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  • ZEKULIN, Nicholas G. (Ivan Turgenev)
    TURGENEV. A Bibliography of Books 1843-1982 By and About... with a Check-List of Canadian Library Holdings.

    Edition: First Edition

    Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 1985. Printed card covers, xx, 221 pp. Light yellowing to spine, soft crease to front cover and following leaf, else fine, no owner marks.; Octavo.

    Book ID: 33342
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  • SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander
    VICTORY CELEBRATIONS: a comedy in four acts. Translated from the Russian by Helen Rapp and Nancy Thomas

    Edition: First UK printing

    London: Bodley Head, 1983. Fine in fine jacket. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

    Book ID: 41575
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  • ARMSTRONG, Terence, Editor, Introduction and Notes
    YERMAK'S CAMPAIGN IN SIBERIA. A selection of documents translated from the Russian by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman

    Edition: First Edition

    London: The Hakluyt Society, 1975. Sky blue cloth, bright gilt cover insignia and spine titles. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. x, 315 pp. (includes references and index), folding frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding), 154 pen and ink drawings. Gentle rubbing to dust jacket tips, negligible nicks to top-edge of front panel. The Russian conquest of Siberia, although a gradual process of absorbtion, could be said to have started in the 1580 with the campaign of Yermak. 'There are several narrative accounts, collectively known as the Siberian chronicles ... The Remezov chronicle, written about 1700, is illustrated with 154 pen and ink drawings. These are of great historical and artistic interest, for very few Russian drawings of this…

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    London: The Hakluyt Society, 1975. Sky blue cloth, bright gilt cover insignia and spine titles. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. x, 315 pp. (includes references and index), folding frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding), 154 pen and ink drawings. Gentle rubbing to dust jacket tips, negligible nicks to top-edge of front panel. The Russian conquest of Siberia, although a gradual process of absorbtion, could be said to have started in the 1580 with the campaign of Yermak. 'There are several narrative accounts, collectively known as the Siberian chronicles ... The Remezov chronicle, written about 1700, is illustrated with 154 pen and ink drawings. These are of great historical and artistic interest, for very few Russian drawings of this period survive. All are reproduced here.' - from the dj flap. (Hakluyt Society Second Series No. 146); Octavo 0904180034

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    Book ID: 26433
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