[Ottawa?]: 1971. Soft Cover. 16mo. SIGNED by Alexei Kosygin to French front cover. Original white card wraps, staple bound. English and French. 40 pp., [8 pp. blank note pages]. Light staining and soiling to covers, creasing to English cover. An itinerary of the visit of one of the most influential..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. Hard Cover. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titling to spine and Appleton device to lower front board. 168 pp. Sunnning to spine and minor bumps to spine ends, else fine. More
London: Review, 2003. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full navy cloth. Map endpapers. x, 276 pp. B&W map. Fine condition. Beautifully written, The Taste of Dreams is a tale of adventure and amazements as the author gets caught up with characters who seem to have stepped from the pages of..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Garden City Publishing Co., 1932. Hard Cover. 8vo. Orig. black and red stamped cloth. 333 pp. Spine sunned and tilted, extremities bruised, some scuffing to boards. Bookplate to flyleaf. Near fine copy of an account of the Russian Revolution by Polish film and stage director Richard Boleslavski..... More
New York: Vintage Books / A division of Random House, 1956. Soft Cover. 16mo. Paperback, 182pp, (2)ads. Upper corner of front cover worn, light fading to covers with wear on spine and some creasing at edges o/w very good. An early journalistic work by the master of creative non-fiction, an..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1936. Hard Cover. 12mo. The Modern Library No. 55. Orig. grey cloth. xi, 730 pp. Top edge green. Bruising to spine head and fore edges of boards, black scuff to fore edge of text block. Dust jacket is creased at spine, rubbed to extremities, chipped..... More
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1944. Hardcover. 8vo. Third Impression. The Red Reel Library. 293pp. Orig. red cloth, 293pp. Light bruising to spine, extremities rubbed, jacket creased with tears to extremities, cutout at foot of jacket and tape repairs to front and inner cover, o/w very good..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full green cloth, black label to upper spine.192 pp. B&W frontis. portrait of Berdyaev. Bookseller's ticket of B.H. Blackwell Ltd, Oxford to front pastedown. Sunning to spine and light bumping to spine ends, else a fine copy of this exploration of..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Soft Cover. 8vo (small). Soft cover. viii, 199 pp. Fine. A stimulating and well-written account of the period 1917-37, one which situates the Russian experience in the wider comparative literature on revolutions and alerts the reader to the rethinking of the Soviet past that is..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1962. Hard Cover. 12mo. Men and Events Series. 140 p.p. Hard cover, red cloth boards with white titling to front board and spine. Dust jacket has light sunning to eges, one short tear to to head of front cover and one to rear cover at foot..... More
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo. Mystical Classics of the World Series. Paperback, xvii, 223pp. About fine. This classic spiritual text written by an ananymous Russian Christian was published in 1884 and chronicles the author's travels to spiritual monasteries, and shrines throughout Russia and Siberia. More
London: The Amalgamated Press Limited/The Fleetway House. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). [n.d., ca. 1925]. Scarce set in VG condition. Quarter bound in black morocco with blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine compartments. Red speckled fore and tail edges. General index to volume VII. Ex-libris stickers to front..... More
London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2001. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xi, 252 p.p. A few very small spots of wear to edges and corners, a few spots of underlining to table of contents, else a fine copy. Explores the roots of Soviet cinema in the film heritage of pre-Revolutionary Russia..... More
Chilliwack, B.C. Synaxis Press, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 12mo (large). Soft cover. 58 p.p. Translated from the Russian. A few creases to covers, some light discolouration, and bumping to corners. Antony Khrapovitsky was the Metropolitan of Kiev, leading the Russian Orthodox Church in exile from the time of the..... More
London: Printed for W. Owen; J. Dodsley; J. Rivington; and T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, 1772. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. Presentation copy, signed on title page "For Mr. William Richardson, From the Author." B&W 2-page frontis + 12 plates, engravings by P. Mazell. Half-bound in calf with marbled paper..... More
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989. Soft Cover. 8vo. Paperback,437pp. Illustrated. Very light creasing to corners o/w near fine. Literary biography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. More
New York: Philisophical Library, 1960. Paper Boards. 8vo. 91 p.p. Paper Boards. Scratching to corners and ends of dust-jacket. Small tears to corners of dust-jacket as well. Bumping to extremities of boards. Inscription to rear endpaper. Bookplate by C.B. Farrar to front endpaper. Otherwise clean, a fine copy of book..... More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1974. Aislin. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Stated first edition in the U.S.A. Quarter red cloth with black cloth boards, silver letting to spine. Red endpapers. xxii, 259 p.p. [16] p.p. B&W illustrations. Tail edge speckled red. Bumping to spine foot and corners, else..... More
Toronto: Signal, 2018. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter grey cloth, grey paper boards. viii, 358 pp. [32] pp. colour photo plates. Fine. More
Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1991. Soft Cover. 8vo (imperial). Catalogue from photography exhibition of December 8, 1990 to February 3, 1991. Foreward by Katy Kline. Oblong 8vo. Original publisher's spiral-bound wraps. 12, xxix, 27 pp. B&W photography. Book is in two sections - Boris Michailov may be..... More
Old Greenwhich, Conneticut: The Devin-Adair Company, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Fourteenth Printing. Blue leatherette boards, 183pp. Very light rubbing on spine and tips o/w about fine in earlier printed d/w. Jacket faded, clipped at front inner flap; light wear at extremities of d/w. John Noble was taken prisoner in Russia in..... More
San Francisco: Proletarian Publishers, 1975. Soft Cover. 12mo (small). Orig. yellow wrappers, 88pp. Light soiling to wrappers, sticker ghost to front wrapper and title-page o/w near fine. More
Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Limited, 1952. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Stated first printing. 169 p.p. Grey cloth boards with burgundy lettering to spine and stamped vignette to front board. Dust jacket is damp stained, bumped and creased at edges, worn at joints and edges, and chipped at..... More
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1971. Soft Cover. 18mo. 136 p.p. Tan and red paper wraps, sewn binding. Wraps are sunned and lightly damp stained, a few creases to rear cover. Pages are age toned, a few creases to corners. A scarce volume on the Communist movement in the..... More
New York: Philosophical Library, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, 126pp. Illustrated. From the library of C.B. Farrar, his bookplate on front pastedown. A photo of Gorky taped to ff/ endpaper with newspaper article laid-in at rear. Light wear to spine and edges, o/w near very good in good d/w..... More