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[Murray's]
HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN RUSSIA, POLAND, AND FINLAND
Boards a bit waterstained. Top right corner of front endpaper and title page gone. Hinges started; Map in rear pocket with small neat tape repairs; Ex-Lib; 12mo; 571, 48 pages
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Payne, Robert; Romanoff, Nikita
IVAN THE TERRIBLE
8vo; 502 pages
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Perry-Ayscough, H. G. C. ; Otter-Barry, R. B.
WITH THE RUSSIANS IN MONGOLIA
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Minute tears to spine ends. Hinges not tight but holding together. First and last few pages with very light foxing; Fold-out map at rear and 50 photographs ; 8vo; 344 pages
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Meares, Bernard (translation)
AROUND THE KREMLIN
Mylar and boards a bit rubbed and with minor fraying to spine ends ; In original mylar dustjacket with title letters in red. A small coffee table book describing the treasures around Red Square ; 12mo; 244 pages
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Turgenevs, I.
ASJA
Light wear to DJ; In Latvian; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 157 pages
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Hare, Augustus J. C.
STUDIES IN RUSSIA
Much wear to boards. Small piece missing from spine covering. Front free endpaper detached but present. Dampstaining. Bookplate to front pastedown. Hinges well started. Binding cracked ; Take a visit to Russia ten years before the revolution with Augustus Hare. A good reading copy; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 304 pages
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Johnson, Hewlett [Dean Of Canterbury]
SOVIET STRENGTH
DJ with small chips. Light occasional foxing; SIGNED by the Dean of Canterbury with ink on the title page ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 154 pages
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Jaswizkii, Valerie
IVAN III [TWO VOLUME BIOGRAPHY] Gosudar, Vseya, Rusi
Both volumes show slight cocking to spine and moderate wear to extremities; In Russian. A historical novel of a relative of the infamous leader; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 790, 832 pages
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Boguslawski, G. A.
THE STATE ARMOURY MUSEUM OF THE MOSCOW KREMLIN
Spine slightly sunned. Corners slightly bumped ; Various types of weaponry and military acoutrements housed at Moscow's Kremlin. Unpaginated, 381 plates. In Russian ; B&W and Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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Kalitina, N. N.
FRENCH PORTRAIT PAINTING OF THE 19TH CENTURY. [FRANZYSKII PORTRET XIX BECA]
DJ with several closed tears and light chipping ; In Russian ; Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 280 pages
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Frankel, Tobia
THE RUSSIAN ARTIST The Creative Person in Russian Culture
Slight wear and small open tears to DJ ; The triumphs and tragedies of the working artist in Soviet Russia; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 198 pages
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Bakshy, Alexander [translator]
SOVIET SCENE Six Plays of Russian Life
Chipping and small tears to DJ; Includes works by Trenyov, Pogodin, Shkvarkin, Afinogenov, Ilyenkov, and Marshak; 8vo; 348 pages
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Anonymous
MOSCOW
Light wear to extremities. Boards slightly bowed . Writing to last page; Fold out color pics with description on reverse. No date, circa 1960; Color Photographs; 12mo
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Weale, B. L. Putnam
MANCHU AND MUSCOVITE Being Letters from Manchuria Written During the Autumn of 1903
Top corners bumped. Bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page ; Messages from Manchuria during the runup to hostilities amongst Russia and/or China and/or Japan; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 564 pages
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Kovalyov, A.
MOSCOW A Short Guide
Small tears & chipping to DJ. Browning to endpapers. 'Printed in USSR' inkstamp in front free endpaper; Forty-eight B&W plates at rear illustrate this overview of Moscow, circa late 1950s ; B&W Photographs; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 169 pages
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Duncan, David Douglas
THE KREMLIN
Light wear and chipping to price clipped DJ; INSCRIBED by author to first blank page. Tipped-in color photographs ; Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 170 pages
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Graham, Stephen
PETER THE GREAT
Light chipping to DJ spine ends ; The biography of the contentious Russian leader; 8vo; 339 pages
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Kennan, George
SIBERIA AND THE EXILE SYSTEM [TWO VOLUME SET]
Volume one shows wear to extremities and a bookplate to front pastedown. Binding not tight. Ink markings to rear endpaper. Volume two shows wear to extremities. Front hinge started. Small bookseller's sticker to rear endpaper. A few pages uncut ; A look at Siberia when it was even more remote & mysterious than it is now. top edges gilt ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 409,575 pages
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Mowat, Farley
SIBIR My Discovery of Siberia
Small open tears and chipping to DJ ; INSCRIBED by author to half-title page ; 8vo; 313 pages
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Chernov, Vladimir
MOSCOW A Short Guide
Interesting guide to the Soviet city during the Cold War. Folding map in rear pocket ; Color Photographs; 8vo; 197 pages
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MacLean, Fitzroy
PORTRAIT OF THE SOVIET UNION
Slight wear to price clipped DJ; Look at the USSR by veteran Soviet observer MacLean, just prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union ; B&W and Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 230 pages
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Varneke, B. V.
HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN THEATRE Seventeenth through Nineteenth Century
DJ price clipped and with light wear and chipping ; The rich and varied history of drama in Russia ; 8vo; 459 pages
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Mikhailov, Nicholas
SOVIET RUSSIA The Land and its People
Wear & chipping & tape repair to DJ. Bookplate to front pastedown. Slight wear to extremities with slight bumping to corners; The geography and resources of the USSR; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 374 pages
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McDowell, Bart
JOURNEY ACROSS RUSSIA The Soviet Union Today
Wear and small open tears to DJ; A profusely illustrated look at the USSR of the late 70s. Large folding map laid in; Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 368 pages
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Zaitsev, Yevgeny & Poltorak, Arkady
THE SOVIET BAR
Light wear to extremities. Spine ends lightly chipped ; Rarely examined in books, the ins and outs of the Soviet Bar Association, with examples of court proceedings and the attendant bureaucracy; 8vo; 255 pages
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Baedeker, Karl
LA RUSSIE
Wear to extremities. Hinges started. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Newspaper clipping tipped in to rear endpaper ; In French. With 14 maps and 22 plans; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 447 pages
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Massie, Suzanne
LAND OF THE FIREBIRD
Light wear to DJ; Much information of Russia in the pre-revolutionary times. A classic of non-fiction; The Beauty of Old Russia; Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 493 pages
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Curtis, William Eleroy
TURKESTAN: THE HEART OF ASIA
Foxing and dampstaining throughout. Binding loose in spots; Dark blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt ornate ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 344 pages
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Marquis De Custine
EMPIRE OF THE CZAR A Journey through Eternal Russia
This neglected travel classic tells of the adventures of a French aristocrat who travelled through Russia in 1839. A passionate though thoroughly biased observer, there are nevertheless many insights into Russia which remain relevant today; 8vo; 631 pages
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Various
LEONID I. BREZHNEV Pages from His Life
Written under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences of the U. S. S. R. Former Soviet leader Brezhnev's life and views on major issues are given in full detail ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 320 pages
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Anonymous
REPUBLIQUE SOCIALISTE SOVIETIQUE DE LITUANIE
Boards with light wear to extremities; No date, circa 1967, around the time of the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Text in French and 80 stunning photogravures of life in Lithuania. ; B&W Photographs; 24mo 5" - 6" tall
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De Villiers, Marq
DOWN THE VOLGA IN A TIME OF TROUBLES A Journey Revealing the People and Heartland of Post-Perestroika Russia
Interesting look at the heartland of Russia along the Volga River just after the dissolution of the USSR; 8vo; 317 pages
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Komech, Alexei & Gippenreiter, Vadim
THE GOLDEN RING Cities of Old Russia
Light wear to DJ. ; A photographic tour of the Golden Ring, the ancient cities that grew around Moscow, photographed by Gippenreiter; Color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 191 pages
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Duncan, David Douglas
THE KREMLIN
Wear & chipping to DJ with small tears; INSCRIBED by author to first blank page. Tipped-in color photographs ; Color Photographs; 4to; 170 pages
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Bobrick, Benson
FEARFUL MAJESTY The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible
DJ with light wear and one small open tear ; Was Ivan the Terrible a cruel and dangerous tyrant, or a misunderstood leader in the modern sense? ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 398 pages
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Voronin, N.
VLADIMIR BOGOLYUBOVO SUZDAL YURYEV-POLSKOI Old Russian Towns
Very small tear to top of spine covering. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper ; Medieval history of the great Russian towns; B&W and Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 324 pages
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Doroshinskaya, Yelena & Kruchina, Vadim
LENINGRAD GUIDEBOOK
Binding could be a bit tighter; Formal guidebook to aspects of Leningrad. No date, circa mid-60s. Good-sized folding map bound in to rear ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 297 pages
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Louis, Victor; Bronstein, Henri
FROM VYBORG TO MOSCOW BY CAR A Guide for Motorists Travelling Along the Vyborg-Leningrad-Moscow Route
No date, circa mid 1960s. Stunning b&w photography with an artistic touch. With Moscow and Leningrad maps laid-in as issued. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo; 147 pages
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Kangropool, R. & Bruns, D.
TALLINN SAJANDEIS Ehituskunstilline Ulevaade
Light wear to DJ. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper; INSCRIBED by author to title page. Text in English, German and Estonian ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 150 pages
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Goldstein, Joseph M.
RUSSIA Her Economic Past and Future
Wear with small open tears to DJ. Wear to extremities. Corners bumped. Binding loose in spots. Front hinge started; INSCRIBED to title page, possibly by the author. Pamphlet laid in, 'America's Wealth Due Largely to Railway Expansion' by the same author. Four fold-out charts and several other diagrams describing and predicting Russia's economic picture ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 99 pages
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Khamtsov, A. I. & Goncharova, A. A. & Andreyev, A. M.
AROUND THE KREMLIN The Moscow Kremlin, its Monuments and Works of Art
White boards show some browning and edgewear. Small open tear to top of publisher's clear plastic wraparound upon which is printed the book's title ; Detailed look inside the mysterious Kremlin, at the time a vast mystery to the West ; B&W & Color Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 242 pages
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Manners, Ande
POOR COUSINS
Examining the influx of Russian Jews into the US in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries ; Minor staining and wear to boards and to a few pages; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 318 pages
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Massie, Robert K.
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imerial Russia
Minor wear with chipping and small open tears to DJ ; Under Tsar Nicholas II, Imperial Russia ruled one sixth of the earth. As a result of son Alexis' hemophilia, the tsar and the entire empire were placed in the hands of Rasputin, eventually making the revolution inevitable ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 584 pages
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Lenin, Vladimir
LENIN ON YOUTH
Slight wear and chipping to DJ. Bookstore sticker. DJ spine browned. Small marker area to front free endpaper ; Articles, speeches, and letters on youth, not only in Russia, but worldwide; 8vo; 306 pages
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Gerrare, Wirt
GREATER RUSSIA The Continental Empire of the Old World
Light foxing to first few pages. ; Decorative dark blue boards with gilt shield to front board and with top edge gilt; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 337 pages
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Miller, Wright
LENINGRAD
With 20 photographs and 2 maps ; Cities of the World; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 82 pages
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Baedeker, K
MANUEL DE LANGE RUSSE Supplément Au Guide En Russie
Boards browned and with small ink soiling to front and back. ; The rare supplement to the French edition of the Russia Baedeker; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 108 pages
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Baedeker, K.
LA RUSSIE Manuel Du Voyageur
Half-title page and last blank page browned (as usual). Edges a bit tanned. ; 16mo; XLVIII, 447 pages
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Baedeker, K.
RUSSLAND Handbuch Für Reisende
Front map professionally repaired. A very attractive copy; Mit 40 Karten, 67 Plänen und 11 Grundrissen ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 570 pages
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Hullinger, Edwin Ware
THE REFORGING OF RUSSIA
Light shelfwear to boards ; Presentation copy from WM E. Borah with presentation slip from United States Senate slip laid in. ; 8vo; 402 pages
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