Red Army Uniforms and Insignia, 1944
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1973. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 41 pp. With over 175 illustrations. About fine. More
Russian
Signed Photo of Mikhail Gorbachev from Forum2005
2005. No Binding. 8" x 10" Some age toning to edges and small bruise to top edge, else fine. Gorbachev was the keynote speaker of the Forum2005, "Creating a New Civilization," held by the Goi Peace Foundation in Tokyo, November 12, 2005. More
Visit to Canada of Mr. Alexei N. Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of The USSR, October 17-25, 1971
[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
About Russia
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. Hardcover. 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
The Taste Of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar
London: Review, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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 Russian..... More
Lances Down: Between The Fires in Moscow
Garden City, N.Y. Garden City Publishing Co., 1932. Hardcover. 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 (Ryszard..... More
The Imperative of the Nuclear Age
Moscow: Novosti Press, 1986. Soft cover. 16mo. Wrappers, 47pp, illustrated. About fine. "What is in store for the people on Earth in the event of a nuclear missile war? What would be the geographical psychological and other consequences of such a global catastrophe?" More
For an Honest and Fair Agreement
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1982. Soft cover. 18mo. Orig. blue card wraps. 8 pp. Some creasing down the centre, else fine. More
The Soviet Peace Myth
New York: National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1951 per facsimile letter laid in from president of The National Committee for a Free Europe]. Orig. printed wrappers, staple bound. 32 pp. Some soiling and staining to..... More
Cultural Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
Washintong, D.C. United States Government Printing Office, 1949. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Orange wrappers, 25pp. Light staining on top edges of pages, stamp on lower front cover otherwise near fine. This paper examines efforts to establish cultural-scientific exchange that previously had been blocked by USSR following the Second World War..... More
The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 320 pp. Numerous illustrations in colour and B&W in text. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket age toned, else fine. More
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mockba: Pedakmop H.C. Illykapesa, 1951. Hardcover. One quarter bound buckram over pictorial green paperboards, 168pp. Introduction and title page in Russian, with story in English. Tipped in eratta slip; A small stain on upper front board, some light pen markings on rear with corners a bit bruised, but o/w a...... More
Notes from a Dead House
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1950s?]. Orig. brown cloth. 341 pp. B&W portrait of Dostoyevsky. Some minor rubbing to extremities and bumping to corners, else fine. More
Crime and Punishment
London: Penguin Books, 2006. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. 8vo. First edition thus: limited edition published to make the 60th anniversary of Penguin Classics. #998/1000 copies issued in a design by Fuel (Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell). This copy SIGNED on the title page by the two designers. Translated by..... More
Moscow Unmasked: A Record of Nine Years' Work and Observation in Soviet Russia
London: The Pilot Press, 1930. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black cloth. xv, 16-223 pp. [8] B&W plates. Spine cocked, bruising to corners and tail edges of boards, white stains to spine ends, damp stain to rear board. Acid migration to endpapers. Interior..... More
Shadowed Paths
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Markevich, B. Hardcover. 18mo. N.d., [ca. 1950s-60s?]. Orig. blue cloth. 454 pp. Spine sunned, chafed to extremities. Toning to endpapers. Creasing to upper corners of pp. 63-72. More
Nabokov: His Life in Part
New York: Viking, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, red paper boards. 285 pp. [8] pp. B&W photos. Slight bruise to spine foot, top edges faded. Dust jacket is price clipped. More
Introduction to Berdyaev
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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 the..... More
The Scared Men in the Kremlin
London: The Right Book Club, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. blue cloth. 200 pp. Boards are sunned, with imprint of title sunned through the dust jacket to boards. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket sunned, edge worn and chipped, lightly foxed to reverse, long slit..... More
The Russian Revolution
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
The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way
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
The Same Old Story
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. N.d., [1955?]. Orig. pink paper boards. 439 pp. Sunning to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. More
Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full navy cloth. 254 pp. Lightly foxed to top edge. Dust jacket is bumped to spine head, rubbed to covers. More
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Plays. My Universities. My Apprenticeship. [3 vols]
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1968. Soft cover. 4.5" x 7.25" Three paperback volumes in red cloth slipcase. 335; 183; 420 pp. Spines sunned and creased, a few spots of wear. Damp staining to top and tail edges. Some creasing to covers of My Universities. More
On The International Situation and the Foreign Policy of The Soviet Union
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1983. Soft cover. 5" x 8" Orig. light blue card wraps. 30 pp. Some creasing to covers, offset panel of sunning to rear cover. More