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Khalaminskogo, G (text)
Yaroslavl
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Glossy white boards. 78pp. Thirty-one full page coloured paintings of the town of Yaroslavl in Russa and descriptive text and background to the work. Background and descriptions in English, French, German and Russian. Extra text over nine pages in Russian only. Scarce.
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Voronena, N.(text)
Pereslavi-Zalessky
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor rubbing to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Glossy white boards. 80pp. Thirty full page coloured paintings of the town of Pereslavi-Zalessky in Russia and descriptive text and background to the work. Background and descriptions in English, French, German and Russian. Extra text over twelve pages in Russian only. Scarce.
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Tyeltyevsky, P (text)
Vladimir
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Glossy white boards. 81pp. Thirty full page coloured paintings of the town of Vladimir in Russia and descriptive text and background to the work. Background and descriptions in English, French, German and Russian. Extra text over twelve pages in Russian only. Scarce.
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Opolovnikov, A. B.
Kizhi : Ancient Architecture
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. Unpaginated, ca 182pp. Coloured and black & white photographs of the ancient architecture of Kizhi in northern Russia. White silk bookmark ribbon embedded into top of spine. Main text in Russian. Descriptions of all photographs also in English, French and German.
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Drage, CL & Vickery, WN
An XVIIIth Century Russian Reader
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 346pp. Sixty eight pieces of prose and verse from Russian writers, text in Russian. Notes in English over 160 pages.
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Auty, Robert & Fennell, JLI & Simmons, JSG (editors)
Oxford Slavonic Papers : New Series : Volume I (One)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with fading to spine and rubbing/storage effect to front and rear. 140pp. Devoted to the publication of articles and documents relating to the languages, literatures, culture and history of Russia and the other Slavonic countries.
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Auty, Robert & Fennell, JLI & Simmons, JSG (editors)
Oxford Slavonic Papers : New Series : Volume II (Two)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny nick to lower front edge and traces of storage. 124 plates of artwork plus 120pp. Devoted to the publication of articles and documents relating to the languages, literatures, culture and history of Russia and the other Slavonic countries.
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Lazarev, Viktor
Old Russian Murals and Mosaics
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 292pp. A detailed study of Russian mosaics and frescoes from the 11th to the 16th century with 265 illustrations including nine in colour. A newspaper obituary of the author is tucked in.
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Martin, John Stuart (editor)
A Picture History of Russia
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks and slight rubbing to upper edge. Protected in fully-removable plastic sleeve. 407pp. A comprehensive account of the Russian people from earliest times to the 1950s, with 1200 illustrations.
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Vzdornov, G
Vologda
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked embossed white cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks and slight rubbing to edges and corners. 130pp. Detailed study of the art and architecture of the northern Russian city of Vologda. Translated from the Russian by Natasha Johnstone. Text in English with a few notes and bibliography at end in Russian.
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V. Kostochkin. Translated By V. Friedman
Fortress Architecture of Early Russia
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tears and chips to corners and nicks to well-rubbed upper and lower edges. 141pp. Detailed photographic study of Russian Fortress Architecture from the 8th century onwards with 111 black & white photographs. Text mainly in Russian with short English introduction and all captions to photographs also in English.
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Ward, Dennis
The Russian Language Today (Signed By Author)
Inscribed to John (Dumbreck) by the author on front end paper. Notes and a little highlighting to some pages. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a little bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with very slight marking and dustiness, sunned spine and rubbing to edges and corners. 297pp. The system or structure of modern Russian and the way in which it is organized is described in this study. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Balanenko, Yury
Moscow
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Large fold-out pages in excellent condition. 207pp. A lavish look at Moscow, its arts, its history, its politics, its people portrayed mainly pictorially. Text in English.
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Nilin, Pavel
Cruelty
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with some sunning and with a little creasing/rubbing to lower edge and spine ends. 254pp. Set in Russia, this is the story of the events behind the suicide of a man who was the terror of the Siberian bandits and champion of the human soul. First UK Edition. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Grigory Yar; translater Valery Fateyev
Peterhof Pavlovsk Tsarskoye Selo Gatchina Oranienbaum
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. History and descriptions of the five former imperial country residences, the palace and park complexes around St Petersburg - Peterhot, Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk, Oranienbaum and Gatchina. Mostly captioned coloured photographs.
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Irina A. Rodimzeva; etc.; Nikolai Rachmanov; Alfons Raimann
The Kremlin and Its Treasures
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a very faint trace of a bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 356pp. A lavish work on the art treasures housed in Russia's Kremlin, including the building itself plus its history. Very well illustrated including over 250 colour plates. A heavy book.
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Marc Ferro
Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with nick to lower rear edge and slight creasing to upper front edge. 305pp. An in-depth study of Nicholas II of Russia, forced unwillingly into taking the throne on his father's death, he struggled with a role he was ill equipped for. He was dominated by his wife Alexandra, fought a war with Japan, had to accept a constitituent assembly following the 1905 revolution, was faced with the 1914 World War and finally the 1917 revolution precipitated his abdication and death at the hands of the revolutionaries. Illustrated.
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Kalb, Marvin L.
Eastern Exposure
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red loth boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with tiny tears to top of spine and upper corners. 332pp. A highly perceptive study about Russia in the 1950s, the Russian people. their way of life, their private aspirations and their secret longings.
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Boris Yeltsin
Midnight Diaries
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, indent to rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very light rubbing/creasing to upper edge. 398pp. Boris Yeltsin's account of his tumultuous years as President of Russia, based on the diairies he maintained during this time.
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Patrick, George Z.
Roots of the Russian Language
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 239pp. A standard reference work with 450 of the most fruitful roots of the Russian Language. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Lockhart, R. H. Bruce
The Two Revolutions : An Eye-Witness Study of Russia 1917
J. C. Dumbreck 1972 written on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiniest rub to top of spine. 144pp. As British Consul-General in Moscow the author was a close observer of the events of March 1917 whuch produced the short lived Kerensky regime and then the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1917. This account is based on his memories of those days and on the diaries he kept at the time. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Morison, W. A.
Studies in Russian Forms and Uses : The Present Gerund and Active Principle
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked anthracite cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket clipped but not price clipped and not marked or torn or creased. 75pp. Based on sentence gathered from Russian literature and illustrating the Present Gerund and Active Participle, the author provides a translation, word-stress, pronunciation and sentence-stress. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Field, Andrew (compiler)
The Complection of Russian Literature: A Cento
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 324pp. A critical cento (a composition formed by joining scraps from other authors) of Russian Literature in an attempt to lead the reader to a radically different understanding of what Russian literature and cuture 'felt like', Includes a fold out photo-montage of 457 Russian writers 'gathered together' in a public square in Moscow. Printed on cream coloured paper. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Seaman, W. A. L. & Sewell, J. R.
Russian Journal of Lady Londonderry 1836-37
A small amount of ink highlighting to four adjacent pages. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked matt black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 185pp. A vivid account of life in early 19th century Russia. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : October 1976
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages, small tear to lower edge of cover and first few pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Paestum and its Museum in Southern Italy, Orsini's bomb plot and the fall of Palmerston - 1858, Alexander III of Russia - 1881, Marshal Schomberg in Portugal 1660-68, The Old Vic, John Evans- East-India Chaplain - 17th century and Fishing for Pearls in North Wales, Cumberland and Perth plus book reviews and letters.
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Lazarev, Viktor
Old Russian Murals & Mosaics
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor rubbing around lower board edges, a trace of dustiness to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 290pp. A detailed study of Russian mosaics and frescos from the 11th to the 16th century with 265 illustrations. A heavy book.
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Forbes, Nevill & Dumbreck, J. C.
Forbes' Russian Grammar : Third Edition Revised and Enlarged by J. C. Dumbreck
Book and jacket in mint condition. 438pp. Third edition of the classic Russian language study revised and enlarged by J. C. Dumbreck From the new book 'store' of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Newsham, Brad
All the Right Places
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very faint traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creases to upper edge and slight traces of storage 291pp. A young American's adventures backpacking, hiking and biking through China, Japan and Russia. All of this he does in order to come to terms with the abrupt change in his life after his wife asks him for a divorce.
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Voline
The Unknown Revolution 1917-1921
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty, slightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 717pp. An fascinating account of the Russian Revolution by one of the participants who had been involved in political activity from 1901 and who survived until 1945.
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Weiss, Peter
Trotsky in Exile (Modern Plays)
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. 126pp. Script for the play which covers the whole of Trotsky's life in politics from the Tsarist regime in 1902 to his death in exile in Mexico in 1940.
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Stepniak
The Russian Storm-Cloud
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dull olive-green cloth boards, dusty page edges, slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 273pp. A historical account of Russia in her relations to neighbouring countries. The author deals with two contending principles of modern (1886) Russia -- Liberty and Despotism -- from one particular point of view - the influence both are likely to exercise upon neighbouring European countries and their general welfare and progress..
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Petrova, Nina
Best of Russian Cookery
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards and minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge and general signs of storage and handling. 162pp. With over 350 recipes from Russia and the Ukraine. Packed with recipes rather than glossy photos.
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Meyer, Barbara
Against All Odds : The Amur Leopard's Fight for Survival
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 48pp. A study about the Amur leopard, now only found in south west Russia and north eastern China. It lists the different leopard species and clarifies where the Amur leopard fits in, the threats it is facing in its natural habitat and why it may have, in spite of its extremely low numbers in the wild, a chance to survive extinction. Extremely scarce.
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Gorky, Maxim
Twenty-six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to spine, very slightly dusty fore and lower page edges and no bumping to corners. 198pp. Four stories from Maxim Gorky, set in the early 20th century and translated from the Russian.
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Waldron, Peter
The End of Imperial Russia 1855-1917
No marks or inscriptions. Minor crease to lower edge of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 189pp. A study of the Imperial Russian state and the society over which it ruled during the reigns of the last three Tsars. It identifies the sources of instability - political, economic and social - which meant that, as the great crisis of the First World War engulfed Russia, the Tsarist regime found itself bereft of support.
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Acton, Edward
Rethinking the Russian Revolution
No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to lower front spine edge, none to rear cover or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 229pp. An introduction to the momentous events of 1917 in Russia and an analysis of the controversy, examining the orthodox Soviet view, the liberal view long dominant in the West and the minority 'libertarian' view of the far Left.
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Pelevin, Victor
Babylon
No marks or inscriptions. Softback book with dust jacket. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small nick to lower front edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 250pp. A deliciously comic vision of vanity, greed and advertising set in Russia soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
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Karger, M. and Cook, K. M. (translator)
Novgorod the Great : Architectural Guidebook
Whilst the book appears in fine condition, a large number of pages have very faint, easily removable pencil highlighting. No inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 255pp. History, topography, art and architecture of the old Russian town Novgorod the Great. Very well illustrated. All text in English.
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Sela, Owen
The Petrograd Consignment
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, crease to one page corner, minor rubbing to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper and lower edges and minor traces of storage. 303pp. An interweaving of fact and fiction in this story of Lenin's return from exile in Zurich to the chaos of Petrograd in 1917.
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Vitaliev, Vitali
Dateline Freedom (Signed By Author)
Signed 'I V Vitaliev' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 210pp. An autobiographical account from Soviet satirist and investigative journalist Vitali Vitaliev, born in the Ukraine, went to live in Moscow, became a national hero for his investigations of criminals but who was forced to flee into Poland in 1990 just before this account was published. Scarce signed copy.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : January 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Jefferson's visit to England 1786, Louis XIV's Paris, China and Russia - the beginnings of contact, Ferozeshah and the Sikh War, the 17th century and Africans, Education and the Dissentings Academies - 17th to 19th centuries plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : August 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly foxed rear and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on the Strand block of Somerset House 1780-1836, Charles I at York 1642, Nelson's Hardy 1769-1839, Holy Thursday and Charity Schools, the Spanish Blue Division in Russia, Italian immigrants in England 1550-1603, the Codex Sinaiticus Bible, Truro as Cornish Capital plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : November 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Cologne and the British 1918-1926, Feminists in Elizabethan England, Jacob Blumkin in Russia 1892-1929, the Mamluk Sultans 1250-1517, The Grosvenor Estate, the Colonial Robespierre - Victor Hugues on Guadeloupe 1794-98, an English Arctic Expedition 1553 plus book reviews and letters.
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Yevtushenko
Selected Poems : The Penguin Poets
Inscription to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly sunned boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 92pp. Poetry from the fearless spokesman of his generation in Russia. First Penguin Edition. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Topolski, Feliks (illus) & Cripps, Sir Stafford (intro)
Russia in War : London-Summer 1941 Russia-Bound Convoy A British Cruiser Iceland.
No added marks or inscriptions. A clean tight copy with boards very foxed to upper and lower two inches, well rubbed lower edge and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out drawing (same as jacket image) of Russian troops as frontispiece in very good condition. Dust jacket not price clipped but torn and with pieces missing. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 128pp. Pages 12 to 128 are captioned drawings by Topolski. Introduction by Sir Stafford Cripps. 'British Cruiser Iceland' in title refers to Topolski's return from Russia through the Arctic.
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Lenin, V. I.
'Left-Wing' Communism, an Infantile Disorder
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower front corner, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards, tiny nick to rear fore-edge and no bumping to corners. 125pp. An extract from Lenin's 'Collected Works' plus fifteen pages of notes and eight pages of mini biographies of the people referred to in the text. Russian Edition.
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Cliff, Tony
Lenin : Volume 1 : Building the Party
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty/foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 398pp. The author traces Lenin's life from political obscurity to prominence as the leader of a mass working-class party. It shows how he fought for doctrinal purity and how he matured as a practitioner of revolution in the pre-revolutionary period. .
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Cliff, Tony
Lenin : Volume 3 : Revolution Beseiged
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty/foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 230pp. The author follows the course of the revolution in Russia from its triumph in October/November 1917 to its isolation and decline. He shows Lenin struggling to keep on a socialist course while his base was being eroded at home, his health failing and his political isolation sealed by the emerging party-state bureacracy.
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Cliff, Tony
Lenin : Volume 4 :The Bolsheviks and World Revolution
No marks or inscriptions. Slight crease/rub to front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty/foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 251pp. The author describes Lenin and the Bolsheviks' efforts to spread the revolution beyond Russia and to build a Communist International. He shows their astonishing successes and failures and he ends with Lenin defending the spirit of world revolution with his dying breath against the emerging bureaucracy in Russia. A scarce work.
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Balascheff, Marie & Stearns, Martha Genung (editor)
The Transplanting : A Narrative from the Letters of Marie Balascheff, A Russian Refugee in France
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked maroon cloth boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Page fore-edges untrimmed. 251pp. Biographical account of the author, daughter of a Russian Charge d'Affairs who spent time in England and France after her family escaped the Russian Revolution. Whilst in England she met Queen Victoria a number of times. Photographic illustrations.
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