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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: 50592More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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: 47940More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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: 50815More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
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: 37895More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
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: 38337More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
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: 48064More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
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: 47792More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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: 52792More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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: 11259More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
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: 48633More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
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: 13907More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
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: 53952More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
THE VOYAGE OF SEMEN DEZHNEV IN 1648: BERING'S PRECURSOR. With selected documents.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 26366More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
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: 26061More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
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: 54516More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
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: 47821More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
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: 31431More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
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: 33342More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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: 41575More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
YERMAK'S CAMPAIGN IN SIBERIA. A selection of documents translated from the Russian by Tatiana Minorsky and David Wileman
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 26433More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50