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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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Baedeker, Karl
RUSSIA WITH TEHERAN, PORT ARTHUR, and PEKING. Handbook for Travellers
DJ browned (as usual) and chipped. DJ spine laid-in book. Top DJ professionally repaired. Former owner's address on front endpaper. ; 1st and only edition. One of the most scarce and precious titles of the Baedeker series. A description of the country before the revolution. 40 fold out maps in color and 78 plans. A very well preserved copy - especially rare with DJ. Marbled edges nicely preserved - this is the best copy we have ever seen ; 12mo; 590 pages
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Gerrare, Wirt
THE STORY OF MOSCOW
First and last page a bit browned; Gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. NF rear fold out map; Mediaeval Town Series; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 315 pages
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Taylor, Bayard
Travels in Greece and Russia with an excursion to crete
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Very light occasional foxing; Green buckram boards with gilt spine lettering. Numerous steel engravings. Regions to be discovered in this book include Dalmatia, Athens, Corinth, the dorian mountains, Thessaly, Euboea, Cracow, The Salt Mines of Wieliczka, Warsaw, Central Russia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tzarsko Selo, Paulovsk and the islands; 12mo; vii, 426 pages
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Simonov, A. G. ; Lukashevitch, M. G.
WHITE-STONE RUSSIA
Former owner's name on front free endpaper; A coffetable book with old Russian Stone Architecture. In decorative slipcase with minimal soiling and shelfwear. Edition in English and Russian. Nd [1970-71]; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 243 pages
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Arzoumanian, Paghtassar
ARMENIAN CHURCHES Holy See of Echmiadzin
Light wear and chipping to DJ and tape repaired on back. Former owner's name on front free endpaper ; Profusely illustrated; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 262 pages
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Grimm, G. ; Kashkaroga, L.
PETERBURG PETROGRAD LENINGRAD V PROIZVEDENIYAKH KHUDOZHNIKOV
Boards a bit darkened and with small chip on bottom right corner. Spine outer covering starting to detach. Endpapers browned. ; Views of St. Petersburg throughout the times portrayed by local artists. Mostly in b&w with a few color illustrations ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 99 pages
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Yamshchikov, Saveli
SUZDAL
Boards darkened. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs by Stanislav Zimnokh; '; 8vo
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Baedeker, Karl
RUSSIA WITH TEHERAN, PORT ARTHUR, and PEKING. Handbook for Travellers
Very handsome copy with new matching endpapers. Hinges and boards professionally repaired. - Original spine and boards along edges partially missing but very nicely repaired. Front map missing - due to the repair now a tight copy with edges a bit browned; 1st and only edition. One of the most scarce and precious titles of the Baedeker series. A description of the country before the revolution. "40 [39] fold out maps in color and 78 plans" ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 590 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
Small stamp to title page and one map ; No date, circa mid 1960s. Stunning b&w photography (photogravures) with an artistic touch. With Moscow and Leningrad maps laid-in as issued. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 147 pages
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Rear Admiral Peltier:
Soviet Encounter
Very Good. no dj. First Edition. no inscriptions. hard cover, black cloth with yellow lettering. An account of experiences with Soviet Russia and the Russians by a Naval Attache to the French Embassy in Moscow. translated from the french
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Matthew Stevenson:
LETTERS OF TRANSIT Essays on Travel, History, Politics, and Family Life Abroad
Fine/fine (fine copy in fine unclipped dj) octavo 392pp. First edition. Publisher's review copy with press release within book. 27 tales of travelling to places as diverse as Russia, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, South Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East.
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Sidney Harcave:
Years of the Golden Cockerel
VG/VG. dj has a couple of small closed splits and some edgewear to ends of spine. interna; fro nt edge of dj is a little creased/wrinkled, but no loss. ffep is missing. not price-clipped .no inscriptions. internally. a good clean copy.
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Richard Hough:
THE POTEMKIN MUTINY
VG/VG (slight isolated wear to edges of dj. Loose frontispiece) Octavo 176pp illustrated. Maps at endpapers. The mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin in the Black Sea in 1905 has many and various claims to historical importance. It was a great landmark in Soviet history and one milestone in the eventual overthrow of the Tsar.
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Read, Piers Paul:
A Patriot in Berlin
Paperback Book Proof Very Good limited edition numbered book proof copy 111/500. A Patriot In Berlin is the dramatic story of Berlin after the fall of the Wall, and Moscow after Gorbachev - of love, faith and patriotism in conflict. Berlin, August 1991. An emigre Russian couple ar
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M W Fodor:
THE REVOLUTION IS ON
VG/G (lightly faded turquoise dj is browned on spine wih light foxing front cover, lightly worn round edges with small 1/2" tear at top of spine, not clipped, this wartime wrapper has identical printing on the clean reverse side but with author's name inked out, clean turquoise cloth very lightly rubbed top and base of spine, this is a very good clean tight bright copy with light browning endpaper edges and few light speckles outside pages and pre-title page, internally the pages are clean and unmarked, no inscriptions) octavo 237pp. First edition. Prometheus Library series. Nazism, Fascism and Bolshevism - the author shows the family connection, explains why the ostensibly anti-Bolshevik Nazis joined Soviet Russia in a cooperation of the "proletarian" States against the capitalist ones, and discusses the present situation.
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David Stafford:
SPIES BENEATH BERLIN
Fine/near fine (near fine unclipped dj with one tiny chip head of spine, a fine crisp tight bright copy with no inscriptions) octavo 211pp. First edition. The story of Operation Stopwatch/Gold, a joint M16/CIA project to build a tunnel under the Russian sector of Cold War Berlin. B/w photographs, notes and bibliography.
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Mark S Steinberg and Vladimir M Khrustalev:
THE FALL OF THE ROMANOVS political dreams and personal struggles in a time of revolutioin
Fine/fine (book and dj both fault, contents clean tight and bright as new) octavo 444pp. Scholarly work based on documents and photographs from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections. With b/w illustrations.
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Robert Maxwell editor and K U Chernenko:
Leaders of the World K U CHERNENKO Speeches and Writings
vg/vg (clean undamaged maroon dj, maroon leatherette boards with bright gilt titles on spine, contents all clean tight and bright, a very good clean bright copy) octavo 256pp. Second enlarged edition. Introduction by Robert Maxwell and biographical sketch. Selected speeches and writings of K. U. Chernenko, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet.
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Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy and translation Alec Brown:
THE TOLSTOY HOME
VG (no dj . blue cloth with fading gilt titling to spine. no inscriptions of foxing) octavo 352pp. Second impression. Diaries of Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy, the second child and eldest daughter of Leo Tolstoy, written during her childhood and up to and just after her marriage. A day-to-day picture of family life within the Tolstoy famiily. 8 b/w plates.
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Lambton. Antony.:
Bad Company and Other Stories
VG/VG near fine. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. collection of seven largely unknown stories by four men writing in pre-Revolutionary Russia Translated from the Russian and chosen and introduced by Antony Lambton. Korolenko: Bad Company. Kuprin: The Bracelet Of Garnets. Sasha. The Army Ensign. The Jewess. Leskov: The Lady Macbeth Of The Mzinsk District. Andreev: Abyss
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(Revista)
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN vol. 57 no 7/8. Uses of tradition in russian and soviet architecture - London 1987 - Muy ilustrado
London, Academy Group, 1987. Edición de este número a cargo de catherine Cooke y Alexander Kudriavtsev. Numerosas ilustraciones en color y b/n. 80p. 4º mayor. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. Revista en inglés.
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KRAKOWSKI, Edward
HISTORIA DE RUSIA. La eurasia y Occidente - Barcelona 1956 - Ilustrado - 1ª edición
Barcelona, Editorial Surco, 1956. Versión española de María Luz Morales. Contiene 24 láminas en b/n fuera de texto. 496p. 8º mayor. Conserva cubiertas originales. Holandesa con lomo de piel con dorados con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Algunos puntos de óxido en páginas en blanco. Ex libris. Buen ejemplar. 1ª edición. 1st edition.
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Grillandi Massimo
RASPUTIN (1982)
In 8, bros. edit. ill. col., pp. 349Stato di nuovoLuogo di pubblicazione MilanoEditore RusconiAnno pubblicazione 1982Collana Le viteMateria/Argomento Biografie, Rasputin, Russia zarista
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