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2003rif. 012268St Petersburg Russia 2003. 271pp/illus. Beautifully illustrated with color illustrations throughout. Covers history uniforms and insignia of the Russian Imperial Guard from 1700s to World War I. Russian text. Clean no marks. 1st Edition. Decorative Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover
1971rif. 012190New York: Viking Press 1971. 430pp/illus/maps. An excellent history of the campaigns of the White Movement during the Russian Civil War along with portraits of the generals who supported it. Includes 20 b/w photographs. DJ has light wear. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Press Hardcover
1973rif. 011742Paris France: YMCA Press 1973. Two volume set in soft pictorial covers. Vol 1 Part I-II 1973 657pp/illus. Crease on back and small stain on edge. Vol 2 Part III-IV 1974 606pp covers lightly worn. Rare early printing. Russian text. Overall clean . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. YMCA Press Paperback
1992rif. 011758Old Tappan New Jersey U.S.A.: Free Pr 1992. 557pp/maps. A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty. Clean. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Free Pr Paperback
1982rif. 011668London: Palgrave Macmillan 1982. 461pp. Carr looks at the relations between Moscow & other Communist Parties. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Palgrave Macmillan Hardcover
1970rif. 011547Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1970. 340pp 180 plates 33 in ull color. 146 figures in the text. English translation of the detailed account by its Russian discoverer of one of the most remarkable pieces of archaeology of the twentieth century. It details the remarkable contents of the five great Pazyryk burial barrows preserved by 'refrigeration' in virtually pristine condition. Light edge-wear to dj.Text clean. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. University of California Press Hardcover
1990rif. 011414New York: Greenwood Press 1990. 183pp/illus/maps. This work examines the evolution of military-scientific research and theory as it was taught to student-officers at the Nicholas Academy. It is the only work in English or Russian to focus on this intellectual-institutional dialogue in the context of evolving professional responsibilities of the Russian Imperial General Staff during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book contains five portraits of influential Russian military theorists and educational administrators. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Greenwood Press Hardcover
1993rif. 011424St Petersburg Russia: Neva-Service 1993. 116pp of text. Well illustrated history of Russian uniforms. 179 detailed color plates. English text. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Neva-Service Hardcover
1964rif. 011489New York: Simon & Schuster 1964. 672pp/illus/end-paper maps. DJ spine lightly faded. Text clean. 3rd Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
1988rif. 011340Annapolis Maryland U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press 1988. 366pp/illus/maps. The war in the Baltics 1854-1855. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naval Institute Press Hardcover
1965rif. 011354Moscow Russia: Progress Publishers 1965. 3 Volume Set Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling and edited by Frederick Engels. First English edition published in Moscow. Vol. 1- 1st ed 1st pt- 1965- Very Good book square tight no marks 807 pages in Near Fine jacket. Vol. 2 - 1st ed 4th pt- 1967- Fine book square tight no marks 551 pages in very good white jacket with smalltears/chips. Vol. 3- 1st ed 3rd pt- 1966- Fine book square tight no marks 948 pages in Very Good clean near fine white jacket. All books have previous owner name on ffep. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Progress Publishers Hardcover
1968rif. 011175New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1968. Book has 786 pages plus index. A few full page b&w illustrations on glossy paper. Light wear to edge of cover - maroon cloth with gilt. Book is in very good and clean. Sections: Background The Confrontation The Century of Schism The Century of Aristocratic Culture On to New Shores and the Uncertain Colossus. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
rif. 011182Madison WI: Univ of Wisconsin Pr 1964. 792pp/maps/figures. A well-researched history of the origins doctrine operations and effectiveness of Soviet irregular unconventional warfare during the Second World War. This study is based on a "systematic investigation of a vast amount of first-hand documentation partly Soviet mainly German which was captured at the close of World War II." Illustrated with 24 figures/maps. Clean no marks. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Wisconsin Pr Hardcover
1979rif. 011200New Delhi India: Amerind Publishing 1979. 560 pages numerous maps several are fold-outs. The authoritative record of the Russian fleet's day-by-day contribution to the war at sea from 1914 through 1917 when the revolutionary Bolshevik government took Russia out of what it saw as a purely imperialistic confrontation. The story of the tortuously slow growth of the Tsarist navy is told against the background of war preparations by Germany France and England. Light edgewear to dj. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Amerind Publishing Hardcover
1989rif. 011233Switzerland: Swan 1989. 279 pp.; map endpapers; generously illustrated with b/w photo reproductions. Light wear to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Swan Hardcover
1876rif. 011123St Petersburg Russia 1876. 438pp 132pp appendix. A detailed history of Roman Catholicism in Russia during the time of Catherine II and Alexander I. Russian Text. Rare. Light foxing and shelfwear otherwise clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover
1962rif. 011149New York: St Martins 1962. 889pp/frontis. Important study of the development of the Red Army from the revolution to the eve of World War II. Light wear to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. St Martins Hardcover
1934rif. 011033Moscow Russia: Academia 1934. Elephant folio. 49 3pp. Uncut. Original cloth overlaid with Palekh style illustration. The cover is designed like a ceiling fresco seen from below. Illustrated endpapers.This volume contains the old Russian text of "Slovo o Polku Igoreve Host of Igors Lay one of the greatest literary masterpieces not only of Russia but the world." It explains that the illustrator Ivan Golikov works "in the old artistic manner of the Palekh School. Chromolithographed title page. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. Ribbon marker. Magnificent edition of this anonymous epic poem originally written in the Old East Slavic language. The title is occasionally translated as The Song of Igor's Campaign The Lay of Igor's Campaign and The Lay of the Host of Igor. The poem gives an account of a failed raid of Igor Svyatoslavich 1202 against the Polovtsians of the Don River region. While some have disputed the authenticity of the poem the current scholarly consensus is that the poem is authentic and dates to the medieval period late 12th century. The Tale of Igor's Campaign was adapted by Alexander Borodin and became one of the great classics of Russian opera. This edition is lavishly illustrated with 10 mounted Palekh illustrations by Golikov each within a chromolithographed border. Some rubbing on covers with slight abrasion on front cover and heavy abrasion on back cover. Text in old Russian. Binding in overall good interior in near fine to fine condition. The Palekh school works are painted in an ornate style that usually utilized bright primary colors especially red against a shiny black background to decorate lacquer boxes with fairy tale motifs. A clean beautiful rare volume. 1st Edition. Glossy Hard Cover/Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. Illus. by Golikov Ivan. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Academia Hardcover
1895rif. 011034St. Petersburg Russia: V. A. Tikhanov 1895. 387pp. Light brown cloth. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky 1828-1889 was a Russian writer socialist and literary critic whose novel "What is to be done" became a classic of the Russian revolutionary movement. Text in Russian. Clean and unmarked. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. V. A. Tikhanov Hardcover
1986rif. 010942Salzburg Austria: Edition Zeitgeschichte 1986. 144pp/illus. Disputes the belief held by many others about the systematic destruction of the Armenian population by the Ottoman Empire during the end and shortly after WW I through massacres and deportations. Clean with no markings. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Edition Zeitgeschichte Hardcover
1855rif. 010816London: The London Printing and Publishing Company 1855. 3 vols. Volume 1: 383pp Volume 2: 380pp Volume 3: 338pp plus 34 pp /chronological precis of the events of the war & index. .ca 1855-58 Each volume has full page steel engravings of battle scenes and portraits of military leaders and royals which are very detailed with decorative and illustrated margins the maps are mostly double page hand colored with inset engravings. Each volume clean and tight with mnimal foxing. Text presented in two columns per page and enclosed in double line border. by Henry Tyrrell. Front board separating on Vol 1. Overall nice set. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The London Printing and Publishing Company Hardcover
1860rif. 010818Washington D. C: George W.Bowman Printer 1860. xxiv 277pp.with 24 lithographed views incl. additional title most tinted some folding 2 with some hand-colouring & 57 folding maps plans & plates. numerous text illus. original blind-stamped cloth In 1855 Major Delafield of the American Corps of Engineers was appointed to form a commission to visit the Crimea and the theatre of war in Europe for the purpose of gathering information regarding various aspects of their military systems: the organization of armies furnishing and distributing supplies medical and hospital arrangements kinds of arms ammuniition and equipment including the Lancaster gun and rifle cannon the construction of fortifications methods of transportation &c. The plates include numerous lithographed views of Sebastopol and fortifications there the military hospital at St. Petersburg the Turkish Barrack at Scutari used by the English Army as their general depot hospital and as a residence by Florence Nightingale folding plans of fortifcations in Paris Cherbourg Sebastopol Constadt and other cities and plates showing weapons hospitals batteries storehouses military structures. Text plates and maps in excellent condition - no tears foxing. However the binding is in very poor condition. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. George W.Bowman, Printer Hardcover
1971rif. 010828Chicago Illinois U.S.A.: Univ of Chicago Pr 1971. 432pp/map. New interpretation of Russian serfdom history using recent archival discoveries. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Chicago Pr Hardcover
1988rif. 010749Durham North Carolina U.S.A.: Duke Univ Pr 1988. 265pp/illus. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Duke Univ Pr Hardcover
1918rif. 010797New York: Russian Information Bureau 1918. 552pp index/illus. History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement in Imperial Russia. Spine has staining - otherwise very good. Text clean. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Russian Information Bureau hardcover
