About Russia
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
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The Muses are Heard
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
USSR: The Story of Soviet Russia
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
The Russian Revolutions
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
Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and The Story of Their Past, By Our Foremost Writers of Travel Anthropology & History, Illustrated with upwards of 5000 Photographs, Numerous Colour Plates, and 150 Maps [7 Volumes]
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
Cinema and Soviet Society: From The Revolution to the Death of Stalin
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
Dostoevsky's Concept of Spiritual Re-Birth
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
The Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church, in Russia; Containing an Account of Its Doctrine, Worship and Discipline
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
1200 Russian Proverbs
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
The Great Hockey Thaw, or The Russians are Here!
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
The Red Machine: The Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game
Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Hardcover. 5-1/2" x 9-1/4". x, 294 pp. Includes eight unnumbered pages of black and white photographs. Cover Condition: As new. Bound boards in black with red gilt on spine. Red paste-down and free endpapers. Jacket Condition: Slightly worn, and bumped..... More
Lenin: Or, proletarian Revolution and Proletarian Dictatorship
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
One Of The Fifteen Million
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
The Party of The Proletariat
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
From the Banks of the Volga: The Life of Maxim Gorky
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
One Russian's Story
London: Robert Hale, 1970. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Blue cloth boards, gilt titling to spine. 221 p.p. Slight bruising to lower corners of voards. Dust jacket has a few very small spots of wear, else fine. Usually it is the famous or the notorious who become the subject of..... More
To the United Nations General Assembly: A Resolution with appended Documents concerning the Decolonization of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Toronto and New York: United Nations, 1977. Soft Cover. 8vo (imperial). Original brown card wraps. 150 p.p. B&W photos and illustrations in-text. Stamp of Lithuanian Museum-Archives, Mississauga. A few scuffs to covers, creasing to covers, light chafing to edges and creasing to spine. More
Three Loves of Dostoevsky
New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. cloth-backed boards, 300pp. Name on ff/endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown. Boards a bit bowed, a small bump to spine head, o/w very good in very good but worn d/w. "A fascinating and authoritative biography revealing the dramatic..... More
The Sweet-Scented Name, and Other Fairy Tales, Fables, and Stories
London: Constable and Company, 1915. Hard Cover. 8vo. Constable Russian Library. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. xi, 240 pp., [4]. Scuffs and small damp stains to boards, rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners, some minor cockling of cloth at rear. Offsetting to endpapers. Interior is bright..... More
His Life is Mine
Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1977. Hard Cover. 8vo. Translated from the Russian. Original cloth. 128 pp. Fine condition. Dust jacket bumped and rubbed to extremities, VG overall. His Life is Mine is a spiritual testimony - a testimony of the knowledge of God granted to Archimandrite Sophrony granted..... More
Road to Olympus
Richmond Hill, Ontario: Simon and Schuster Canada, 1972. Soft Cover. 12mo. Scarce. Pocketbook edition. Paperback, 277 p.p. Sixteen unnumbered pages B&W photos. All edges red. Light wear and creasing to extremities, spine creased, bump to rear cover at head, some pages bumped and crease at corners at head. Translated by..... More
Travels in Greece and Russia,With an Excursion to Crete
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1859. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. [vii], 426 p.p., [8]. Original blue pebbled cloth. Sunned at spine and edges. Gilt tooling and titling on spine. Blind tooled panels to boards. Wear to spine ends and corners. Small damp stain to head of front board. Engraved title..... More
Selected Poetry
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. Hard Cover. 8vo. Translated from the Russian. Original blue cloth, white lettering to spine and gilt device to front board. 478 p.p., [48] p.p. B&W photo plates. Gift inscription to ffep. Dust jacket has some sunning to extremities, a few short tears, bumping to top edge..... More
Skazki: Tales and Legends of Old Russia
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Theodore Nadejen. 1st Edition. Cloth. 8vo (large). First edition. Thirteen Russian fairy tales. Title, embossed illustration, lettering on spine all gilt. Original publisher's cloth binding. [xiv] 335. Very minor patches of discolouration on cover, minor wear at spine ends, hinges cracking. Vibrantly illustrated..... More
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