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Shirokov, Boris (Editor)
The Undying Tradition: Folk Handicrafts in the Mid-Volga Region
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 1/4"w x 9 1/8"h. Unpaginated. Filled with glossy photos.
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Carr, Annmarie Weyl; Davezac, Bertrand; Elliott, Clare
Imprinting the Devine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 168 pages. Full brown cloth boards. Gold endpapers.
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Bartenev, I. ; Fyodorov, B. (Cook, Kathleen Trans.)
North Russian Architecture
Book shows very light scuffing only. Gilt lettering on spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. First English Edition. Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook. Fascinating account of buildings, secular and sacred, in Northern Russia. Chapters include Transonega, the White Sea Coast, Rivers Svid and Onega, Vologda and Lower Vychegda, the Northern Dvina and Pinega and along the River Mezen. The ubiquitous use of timber is especially interesting. Profusely and beautifully illustrated with full page photographs in colour and b/w. Gold endpapers printed with mediaeval images of builders. Very clean book. 322 pages with table of contents at back. Previous owner's inscription on title page.
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Mallinson, William
Cyprus: A Modern History
Book shows barely discernable wear to covers only with creaseless covers and spine, sharp corners on the covers, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 242 pages
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Khromov, Oleg
Progulki po Sankt-Peterburgu: Akvareli, graviury, litografii (Russian Edition) Strolls Around Saint Petersburg: Watercolors, Engravings, Lithographs
Book is in excellent condition in a large oblong format with light shelf wear only to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with a great many full page, full color prints. 79 pages, includes cloth weighted bookmark. Text is in English and Russian and features watercolors of V.S. Sadovnikov,
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Pouncy, Carolyn Johnston
The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 266 pages. "The Domostroi, which literally means household order, is a 16th century Russian guide to life for noblemen, an exhaustive inventory of homilies, rules and recipes ranging from how to instillobedience in a wife to instructions for making meade and storing cabbage."
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Petrovskaya, Kyra
Kyra
The cover is bright with sharp corners and no creases. Slight stain and fading to side/top page ends. First Signet printing; no. T1888 . 4 1/8"w x 7"h. 320 pages. Four pages of b&w photos.
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Honko, Lauri ; Senni Timonen; Michael Branch
The Great Bear: A Thematic Anthology of Oral Poetry in the Finno-Ugrian Languages
Underlining in green ink to approximately one fifth of the text, mostly at the beginning. Full gray cloth boards. Edge wear to dust jacket. 788 pages. 8 3/8"w x 9 3/8"h. "These 450 poems, songs, charms, prayers and laments in the original languages and in English convey the worldview and an insight into the lives of pre-literate peoples in various stages of cultural and social development. The texts illustrated the beliefs, perceptions, and artistic genius of fiteen peoples scattered across Northern Europe from Scandinavia, deep into Russian and beyond the Urals, and of the Hungarians in Central Europe."
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Levin, Alex
Under the Red and Yellow Stars (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs)
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Maps, b&w photos, 175 pages.
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Edwards, Robert
White Death: Russia's War on Finland 1939-40
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 320 pages.
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Oleg Neverov
Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia
Book is in excellent condition with a bump to the upper corner of the front cover, otherwise as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Very large volume filled with huge full color plates of paintings, interiors, portraits, sculpture. 256 pages.
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Butikov, Georgy
The Church of the Saviour on the Blood
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear to cover. A history of the church, many color photos, descriptions of the plaques and mosaics. Diagrams of the placement of mosaics. 120 pages. 7 3/4"w x 10 1/4"h. No date shown; circa 1990's.
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Bowlt, John E.
Russian Stage Design Scenic Innovation, 1900-1930, From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. 8 1/2"w x 11"h. 344 pages. Many b&w illustrations.
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Staff
Heroic Leningrad: Documents, Sketches and Stories of Its Siege and Relief
Book shows some wear, light brown spots to covers, pages lightly tanned but clean throughout, binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except as noted below, illustrated with 24 pages of black and white plates. 152 pages. Inside front cover and front end paper contains several inscriptions
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West, Shearer
Chagall
Very large format book in dark blue heavy weave cloth hardback with damage to lower 1/2" of front cover at hinge; scuffing to covers. Book is in excellent condition. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with huge full page, sometimes dual page prints throughout, at least 75 in number. Dust jacket shows general wear, damage to same lover spine area, chipping at corners.
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West, Shearer
Chagall
Very large format book in dark blue heavy weave cloth hardback in excellent condition with a few very small, light marks to covers. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with huge full page, sometimes dual page prints throughout, at least 75 in number. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only, no tears.
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Staff
Russian Avant-Garde Theatre: War, Revolution & Design
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 418 pages, heavily illustrated with full color, full page prints throughout.
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Gaddy, Clifford G.
The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy
Book is in excellent condition with light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 250 pages with charts, graphs, maps.
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Vuchinich, Wayne W. (ed.) John S. Curtiss; Terence Emmons; Donald Fanger; Many Matossian; Michael B. Petrovich; Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Etc.
The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Book is in excellent condition, new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 314 pages, 9 contributors write about the subject and its correlatives, each on a different subject: Way of life, the Emancipation, Religion, the Army, the Village commune, the Factory, Literature etc.
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Man, John
Gobi: Tracking the Desert
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 212 pages. Topics include: Mongolia, Sandstorms, Russia, China, Communism, Herdsmen, National Parks, Mountains, Stand-Stone Canyons, Dunes, Singing Sands, Snow Leopards, Desert Bears, Wild Horses, Roy Chapman Andrews, Dinosaur Eggs, Flaming Cliffs, Michael Noacek,
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Prohorenko, Andrey; Pavel Densiov
Russian Log House: Yesterday and Today
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear and small tears to dust jacket. Oblong format: 11 1/2"w x 8 3/4"h. 84 pages. Text in English and Russian. Many illlustrations and diagrams.
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Clark, Katerina
Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding.
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Turner, Robert D.
Pacific Empresses: An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Empress Liners on the Pacific Ocean
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and interior/text is clean with no marking of any kind. 290 pages with over 400 illustrations including b&w photos throughout, mechanical diagrams, layouts, maps, scale drawings, fleet lists, etc.
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Krudiavisev, F.; G. Strelkova
The Golden Ring
Small format book: 4 3/4"w x 6"h. Full maroon cloth boards with gilt rectangles on front cover. In Very Good slipcase. 264 pages; color photos throughout. "The 'Golden Ring' is the name of a tourist route popular with both Soviet and foreign lovers of old Russian architecture. The route winding in and out of cities and villages in the north-eastern part of what used to be the State of Muskovy is hardly circular, but it is certainly 'golden' in the sense that it is rich in historical monuments and towns that are museums in themselves."
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Ivanits, Linda
Dostoevsky and the Russian People
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 258 pages, contents include: Face of the people, 1821 - 1865, World of the people in Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Funbling toward Holy russia in The Devls, The Brothers Karamazov, etc.
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Trotsly, Leon
Trotsky on Lenin
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 385 pages.
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Milsom, John
Russian Tanks, 1900 - 1970: The Complete Illustrated History of Soviet Armoured Theory and Design
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 192 pages, heavily illustrated with b&w photos throughout, maps, large quantities of technical information. Contents include: Kegresse haf-traars, Vezdekhod, Gulikevich's armoured vehicle, Tsar tank, Reno Russkiy projects, Early Societ designs, Refinements to the KS tank, GUVP, Ms light tank, Kazan tank school, 1931 / 2 tank program, Light tanks, T-27, T-26, T-46, T-30, T-40,T-50, T-60, BT series, Heavy tanks, KV-I, KV-II, KV-1A, KV-1B, KV-1C, Self-propelled weapons, Tracked supporting vehecles, etc.
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Jorgensen, Morten
Polar Bears on the Edge: Heading for Extinction While Management Fails
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 218 pages with graphs, many color photos, inscribed by author on title page.
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Saki; Munro, H. H. ; Milne, A. A. (intro)
Chronicles of Clovis, The
Small format (7" High) book with dark blue covers, paste-on title at spine. Small beastie tooth marks at upper corner front cover, embossed "Saki" at front. 242 pages, solid binding, some foxing over about 20 pages towards the front, small stain at page ends, otherwise text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save back of last page with price from prev. owner. Cute classic.
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Lindey, Christine
Art in the Cold War: From Vladivostok to Kalamazoo, 1945-1962
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 224 pages. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. A study of high and low art in the Soviet Union and the West in the Cold War years, 1945-62. Black and white illustrations.
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Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut
Art Under a Dictatorship
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards with gilt title and illustration. 278 pages. Black and white illustrations.
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Bown; Matthew Cullerne.Taylor, Brandon. (Editors)
Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 232 pages. "A comprehensive and readable analysis of the wide range and subtlety of Soviet art from 1917 to 1992. It seeks to unravel Soviet art's considerable stylistic complexity, analysing painting, sculpture and architecture of the Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev an Gorbachev eras."
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Edelman, Robert
Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the U.S.S.R.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new, now wrapped in clear protective cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 286 pages with some b&w photos and illus. Contents include: Socailism and spectator sports, Watching games before the revolution, Early rituals of stalinist sport, Soviet soccer's golden age, Birth of Soviet hockey, Impact of television, Soviet sports fans, Ways of watching: old and new, etc.
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The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small marks on bottom page ends. Slight edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. Full black cloth boards. 9 1/4"w x 12 1/8"h. 732 pages. Very large exhibition catalogue published to accompany a major exhibit of Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1992 curated by Thomas Krens and Michael Gowans.
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Chekov, Anton
The Wolf and the Mutt (Originally Title Belolobyy)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. White buckram cloth cover with black illustration and red lettering. Translated by Guy Daniels. Wood engravings by Stefan Martin.
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Cereghini Mario.
Disegni di Russia di Cesare Andreoni.
Numerosissime opere riprodotte.
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Du Bouzet Charles.
La jeunesse de Catherine II par Charles Du Bouzet.
Bella legatura in tutto marocchino blu con nervi al dorso, tagli dorati, sguardie in carta decorata e dentelle oro ai contropiatti. Ampi margini, ottimo, con dedica dell'autore c. Du Bouzet (1817-1883) Prima e unica edizione.
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Uova preziose un aspetto sconosciuto dell'arte russa.
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Histoire de l'empire de russie sous Pierre le Grand par l'auteur de l'histoire de Charles XII. Tome second.
Solo secondo volume di due, ottima copia con legatura coeva in cartonato e carta decorata settecentescca, tassello con titolo manoscritto, copia con barbe. Testatine con vignette xilografate ad ogni capitolo, finalini e capilettera. Sc. D.
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Alpatov M.W.
Tresors de l'art russe.
Illustrato con fotografie (Jacques Masson) a colori applicate sui fogli. RA0
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Volpini Valerio.
Quasi un pellegrinaggio in Russia.
RA1
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Rakitina Jelena.
Arte e moda negli anni venti. Bozzetti del teatro russo.
Catalogo della mostra al Pac di Milano e al Museo di Arte Moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto 1990.
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Mostra icone russe sec. XVII - argenteria russa.
Numerose immagini b/n e colore. Sc. U
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Vicende della chiesa cattolica di amendue i riti nella Polonia e nella Russia da Caterina II sino a' giorni nostri di libri cinque preceduti da un rapido cenno sull'origine e suelle relazioni della chiesa russa con la santa sede sino a' tempi di Pietro il Grande per un sacerdote dell'oratorio. versione italiana.
Sc. G.
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Guerrieri Gerardo.
Meyerhold e il teatro russo.
Brossura buona copia. Con illustrazioni in bianco nero. Serie "Anticipazioni. Serie Teatro", n. 9. 1944 (aprile). Con 15 tavole in b/n. Sc. U.
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SWINTON ANDREW
Viaggio in Norvegia, in Danimarca ed in Russia negli anni 1788, 89, 90 e 91 Tradotto dal Conte cav. Luigi Bossi con tavole in rame colorate.
Opera completa, 4 volumi con brossure editoriali, titoli e fregi a stampa ad entrambe i piatti, ottima copia con barbe. il tomo secondo ha una leggera macchia alla copertina anteriore e uno strappo alla copertina posteriore. Con 16 tavole f.t. stampate su carta forte, colorate all'acquarello e protette da velina, Tomo XXV, XXVI, XXVII e XXVII della Raccolta di Viaggi dopo quelli di Cook. Discreto exlibris a stampa ottocentesco applicato alla pagina dell'occhiello di ogni volume. Bellissimi esemplari genuini. Sc. B.
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H. Carr Edward
La morte di Lenin. L'interregno 1923-1924
Tela editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata in b.n. qualche traccia del tempo, piccoli strappetti. RW2.
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Strada Vittorio (a cura di)
I Russi e l'Italia. A cura di Vittorio strada.
Legatura in tela con sovraccoperta, con ampio apparato iconografico, numerose riproduzioni a colori e b.n. Ottime condizioni. RC6.
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Cechov Anton
I quadretti del dottor Cechov. Primo quaderno (1891-1904).
Tela editoriale con sovraccoperta in acetato e astuccio. Buone condizioni generali. Prima edizione. RG4
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AFANASJEV A.N. (a cura di)
Antiche fiabe russe
Tela editoriale decorata, astuccio con illustrazioni, buona copia in prima edizione. Collana i Millenni 23. Con illustrazioni b.n. e colore nel testo e a piena pagina. RT2
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