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1924Best.-Nr. 204604Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft fur Politik und Geschichte 1924. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy with scattered marginal foxing primarily to front boards and front prelims in the original title-printed paper covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight bright clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of J. Kortenhorst his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. Top-edge-green. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Description: 4 v. 25 cm. Subjects: Balkans -- Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1894-1917. Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. Russia; before 1917; political history and theory; 1801 - 1917; 1914 - 1917 World War I; origins of the war foreign relations. Each volume has also special t.-p.1. Bd. Vom Beginn der Botschaftertatigkeit Iswolskis bis zur Beendigung der Marokkokrise.- 2. Bd. Der Tripoliskrieg und der erste Balkankrieg.- 3. Bd. Der zweite und der dritte Balkankrieg.- 4. Bd. Vom Ende der Balkanwirren bis zum Mord von Sarajewo. Language: German. Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft fur Politik und Geschichte hardcover
1948Best.-Nr. 006770New York: Viking 1948. 220pp/illus. This book features the writing of John Steinbeck with 70 photographs by Robert Capa. Accompanied by one of the world's most famous photographers Steinbeck met the Russian people face to face. Book is informal and without political bias - he tells us how they live and what they think. First edition in the rare binding with grayish-green cloth and light grayish brown spine. Clean and bright. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Capa Robert. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Viking hardcover
1857Best.-Nr. 001799London: London Printing and Publishing Company 1857. 354 pages plus index with 11 beautiful steel engravings 1st part and 546 pages and 29 beautiful steel engravings and 2 beautiful double page steel-engraved/hand-colored maps of historical Russia. Both have steel engraved frontis and title pages. Some light foxing does not affect maps. Beautiful Crimean War history. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. London Printing and Publishing Company hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. Star-9783540642749Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. Star-9783540642749Springer 2000. Hardcover. New. Springer hardcover
1882Best.-Nr. 25318Sergiyev Posad Russia: I. Efimova 1882. 186 4 pages. Including a double-page color tinted lithograph view of the monastery grounds and architecture; at back is a double-page map-plan giving the geographical position of the monastery and the layout of the grounds within the wider community; a number key with description is on the following pages. Text entirely in Cyrillic describing in a chronology the history of the monastery established by one of the most important Russian Orthodox patron saints of Russia the monk Sergius of Radonezh Saint Vartholomei Kirilovich. With the occasional marginal pencil comment and mark. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" size; bound in the original finely pebble-textured dark teal cloth. Edge-wear tips wear-through; spine cloth fraying and loosening at bottom. Remains of old label old sticker with number on front board; no blank free endpapers; a couple of pencil numbers and a pen number and with the stamp of a church library with a central illustration of the same & another rectangular stamp that is partially incomplete throughout. Text generally clean and very good; lithographed plate & the map also in very good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. I. Efimova hardcover
1721Best.-Nr. 262775London 1721. 43 1 pp. Removed slight foxing. 43 1 pp. ESTC N12949 unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 43199New York: Rizzoli 1987. Thick 4to. 618 pp. 1544 photos illusts. diagrams plates. Red cloth blk lettrng w/ d.j. couple sml clsd tears very mnr sunng to spine edgewear VG/VG copy from the collection of Dr. Rochelle Martin w/ ownrshp signature on ffep. First edition of this first exhaustive work on the history and examples of Soviet architecture from 1917-32. Included are sections on Classicism rationalism Constructivism nationalism and much more. Rizzoli, hardcover
1917Best.-Nr. 55871N.p. 1917. Some light creasing and a few short marginal tears; otherwise fine. Folio. Printed from a photographic plate of the original letter. With typescript translation into English. Nicolas II granted the constitutional reforms that altered the entire political outlook of Russia. He was forced to abdicate and he and his family were executed at Ekaterinburg July 1918. This facsimile was most likely printed for circulation in Russia. unknown
1946Best.-Nr. 83794Stanford CA: Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War Revolution and Peace 1946. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xv; 658pp. Very light wear to the cloth mostly confined to some shallow cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean; in a clean strong price-clipped dustjacket with some marginal fraying and isolated shallow loss to edges some toning of the spine panel and some largely unnecessary tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy in a dustjacket with some light wear. A sizeable biography of the life of Ipatieff who managed to be a respected scientific figure before the Revolution and an even more respected one afterwards. It can have been no mean feat to have been head of Imperial Russian chemical warfare research during WW1 and then post-revolution to be held responsible for the revitalization of the chemical industry of the newly minted USSR. A joint memoir of the last days of Imperial Russia and the early days of the USSR with all the turbulence fear and uncertainty that must have engendered. Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 29282Russia 1937. Ten b&w RPPCs showing mostly scenes of Moscow and 1 of Maxim Gorky seated with children. Locations include: the former St. Basil Cathedral The Kremlin Tsar Bell 2 The Kremlin in Winter 2 one of the cathedral in St. Petersbourg several other Moscow scenes. One card showing the Russian building at the Exposition International in Paris 1937. Citadelle et la Cathedrale des Sts Pierre et Paul St. Petersourg Stengel & Co Dresden fullback postcard. Two rppc's have writing the rest blank or copyrighted in 1931. A traveler addresses two cards to the Beach family in New York City one franked in 1933 enjoying his tour of Russia in four days. The other card has an image of the Exposition Internationale Paris 1937 and writes on the verso: "We've been to the exhibition - disappointing very unready and uninteresting as yet. The German & Russian Buildings complete. Expressive of each nation as to size. They frighten me. We are off to Switzerland tomorrow and pleased to go." All in very good condition. unknown
1784Best.-Nr. E0138xvi42316 ad pages. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5" bound in period full calf with red morocco label with gilt lettering. First edition. Describes the anonymous author's journeys between 1777 and 1782. About half the text details his time in Switzerland. The author was a keen observer of the economics and agriculture of the places he visited. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed exterior hinges tender some scuffing to the spine else about very good. Printed for T. Cadell hardcover
1799Best.-Nr. 17692London: George Cawthorn British Library. Good. 1799. 1st Edition of This Translation. Hardcover. Rebacked in brown calf with gilt lettering over original gilt edged dark brown boards. Illustrated with 3- engraved portraits including frontispiece in vol 1 & 2- engraved portraits in vol 2. xx 362pp1. viii 411pp bl. Hinges & text block are tight & intact. Internally clean except for scattered foxing heaviest on first & last few leaves including engraved portraits. Corners rubbed. Dakin's translation was published the year after an anonymous translation printed and published by G. Cawthorn; a second edition enlarged to 3 volumes by W. Tooke was also published in 1798 with a third edition in 1799. Dakins does not allude to or mention these earlier translations. Biography Russia. ; Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 773 pages . George Cawthorn, British Library hardcover
1915Best.-Nr. 21189London: A & C Black. Very Good. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Very light foxing to first few pages. Back hinge started but holding strongly. Browning to back side of map. A handsome and tight copy.; Light brown boards with orange lettering and design in orange black and tan. This is the later edition of 1915 with the 1913 copyright with gilt spine lettering. The illustrations are not tissue guarded. 48 illustrations from watercolors by F. De Haenen. Numerous B&W illustrations. Rear folding map. This edition is part of the 20 Shilling Series however - the later edition was sold at 7s 6d. Inman 70; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; x 479 pages . 1915. A & C Black hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 96482Antique Collectors Club Ltd 1997-11-01. Hardcover. Like New. 15x1x13. As new large format hardcover in clam shell box no jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout in color. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Antique Collectors Club Ltd hardcover
1939Best.-Nr. 29813HBDJ 2 VOLS 1939 EARLY ISSUE VG /VG- AS-IS RED DUSTJACKET WITH B/W CIRCULAR SYMBOL AT BTM FRONT DJ Small Extremities CHIPS & TINY TEARS TO DJ & Ends SPINE DJ TEARS CHIP BACK OF DJ SAYS OVER 950 & 960 VOLS. RED EMBOSSED CLOTH COVERS HAVE LITE FADE EXTREMITIES few dogeared pgs Story centers on an extramarital affair between Anna and dashing cavalry officer Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky that scandalizes the social circles of Saint Petersburg and forces the young lovers to flee to Italy in a search for happiness but after they return to Russia their lives further unravel. EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY DENT DUTTON hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. DLALoA L23New York: 1950. 1950. 4to. pp. 69 3. 42 b/w illus. & 6 tipped-in colour illus. wrs. spotted spine cellotaped. Exhib.Cat. New York: 1950. unknown
Best.-Nr. ria9781119526261_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A hardcover
Best.-Nr. 39156Paris: Exposition Universelle. 1900. 8vo. 24.5 x 16 cm. pp. 194. Original green printed wrappers. Large 66 x 52 cm. colour printed folded map at rear by A. Fock showing the forestation of European Russia and including the railways marked in silver. Covers worn and detached contents generally very good. Translated by M. le baron Jacques de Berwick from the original work assembled by M. Orloff and M.V. Faas on behalf of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. Paris: Exposition Universelle. 1900 unknown
Best.-Nr. RGW20400Aquatint with original hand-colouring from 'A Picture of St Petersburgh represented in a collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City the Sledges and the People . . .' some fading to colouring unknown
1996Best.-Nr. __3110144131De Gruyter 1996. Hardcover. New. 306 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. De Gruyter hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. ZB1339908Cosmopolitan Book Corporation/Farrar & Rinehart 1932. signed by Alexander at the front free endpaper; xi 348 pp. frontis. plates; original blue cloth hardcover very good in a worn dust jacket; published by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation/Farrar & Rinehart. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation/Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. ZB1339926NY: The Century Co. 1929. inscribed by the author; second printing xxi 310 pp. hardcover very good in a worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. NY: The Century Co. hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 0007580Paris: L'Illustration 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folios full leatherspines scuffed minor repair splitting at ends of joints. Approximately 15.5 x 11.5 inches. / 39 x 29 cm. A massive work with beaucoup photogravures and tipped-in full-page full-color plates of the principal generals heads of state and others; also other partial-page full-color plates. Preface by Georges LeComte. Chapter 10 covers the Russian Revolution. Chapter 15 is the War in the Air. The large folding map in color at the rear of vol. 2 depicts the troop movements in the final five months before the Armistice. L'Illustration hardcover
1999Best.-Nr. 059488Private Published 1999. Book. Good. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 195pp. Reading curl to corners. Scarce. Private Published Paperback
