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
[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. 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
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
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
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
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1982. Soft cover. 18mo. Orig. blue card wraps. 8 pp. Some creasing down the centre, else fine. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. Hardcover. 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, light..... 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
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
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
Toronto: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Institute, 1980. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 485 pp. [1] colour photo. Rubbing to spine and extremities, creasing to joints, spine cocked, light toning to covers. More
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, 196pp. Fine in lightly sunned but near fine d/w. Count Karl Nesselrode was a Russian foreign minister from 1816-1856 and sought to strengthen connections with the West and worked for a bipartisan agreement that renewed the European Concert..... More
Letchworth Herts, England: Bradda Books, 1975. Soft cover. 12mo. The Library of Soviet Literature. Text predominantly in Russian. Orig. green card wraps, glued binding. 91 pp. Backstrip apparently lacking, glue marks to joints. Covers have offset panels. Interior is age toned. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary by Alexander Pavlov..... 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
London: Printed for W. Owen; J. Dodsley; J. Rivington; and T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt, 1772. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 boards..... 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