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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
1969rif. 010679Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1969. 403pp/map. Light edgewear to dj. Text clean. . 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harvard University Press Hardcover
rif. 010687London: Spring Books 1966. 169pp/illus. Essentially the masterwork of the highly noted expert on the works of Faberge. DJ has light wear. Book clean. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Spring Books Hardcover
1971rif. 010691Arno Press 1971. 590 pages with 39 maps many fold-outs and 78 plans. Facsimile of the 1914 edition. Detailed description and information on pre-WWI Russia. Light wear to dj. Text clean. Facsimile. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Arno Press Hardcover
1985rif. 010442London: Routledge Chapman & Hall Incorporated 1985. 256pp/illus/maps. Study of the growth of Russian military power from 1700- . Clean. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated Paperback
1972rif. 010465London: Ian Allen 1972. 176pp/illus. History of Russian Fleet during WWI. Light rubbing to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ian Allen Hardcover
2001rif. 010324Havertown Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc 2001. 243pp/illus/maps. Story of the defeat of the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Clean. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc Hardcover
1981rif. 010361New York: Continuum 1981. 329 pp. Translation of 'Les origines intellectuelles du leninisme'. Contents: The Ideology; The French Cycle; The German Cycle; The Religious Education of Russia; Liberalism or Revolution; The Intelligentsia; The New Man; A Dream of the Party; A Sketch of the Party; Social DemocracY; Lenin; Metaphysical Leninism; Political Leninism; Truth and Falsehood; In Power; The Dominion of the False. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Continuum Hardcover
