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1969No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Glossy white boards. 76pp. Twenty-seven full page coloured paintings of the city of Novgorod in Russia and descriptive text and background to the work. Background and descriptions in English, French, German and Russian. Extra text over eleven pages in Russian only. Scarce.
1968No 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.
1968No 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.
1970No 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.
1968No 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.
1969No 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.
1968No 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.
1969No 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.
1966No 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.
1957No 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.
1972No 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.
1969No 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.
1965Inscribed 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.
1975No 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.
1956No 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.
2002No 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.
1989No 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.
1991No 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.
1959No 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.
2000No 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.
1968No 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.
1967J. 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.
1959No 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.
1971No 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.
1973A 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.