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1973176 pages including index, bibliography and appendices. Black and white illustrations. Maps. "For months the Finns, who received scant help from an admiring world of sympathizers and avowed allies, held on. Yet the holding could only last until the Russians gathered themselves. When that happened and Red wheel-to-wheel artillery attacks and new hordes of troops and tanks again took their toll, the Finns bowed to the inevitable defeat... Describes the big picture and relates the stories of many individual Finns and Russians in combat. The result is a fascinating and moving book." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reading copy. Book
1977Features: The MIG-Hunting School (part II); Invincible launced; Bourget '77 - pictures from a show; The USSR and the Warsaw Pact - the Soviet Union's post-war strategies, from defense of the national territory to world expansion; Survey of the air forces of the Warsaw Pact Countries - the ever-increasing power of these forces; The Navies of Warsaw Pact Countries - their strength and strategy, upperly subservient to Soviet strategy; Sabres in Korea; Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (Part III); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
197164 pages. Features: Jack Barbeau's Canada; The Dangers of the New Promiscuity; Canada consists of two solitudes that meet and greet in hope and hate; On Being (Farley) Mowat; As French Canadian as Baseball - The Expos are more fun than the FLQ; Pierre and Margaret Trudeau - Our Heroes on the Russian Front - What does it mean when the boureois leader of a third-rank power pays a state visit to the USSR in the company of his beautiful bride? - article with colour photos of the Trudeaus in Russia; Thanks Darling for Making Me What I Am Today - stories and photos of celebrity couples - Mrs. Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, Mrs. Pierre Berton, Mrs. Gordon Sinclair, Mrs. Thomas BataMrs. Robert Bourassa, Mrs. Jean Beliveau, plus write-ups for Mrs. Harold Town and Mrs. John Bassett; In the Heart of the Art of Lunenburg; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
194882 pages. Articles: Low Man on the Wallace Poll - a study of third-party Vice-Presidential nominee Glen Taylor; Hate - With Russian Dressing - a report on the USSR and its reaction to the Marshall Plan; Cotton Gets a Beauty Treatment - it's now used for glamorous beach, streat and evening wear; Let's Stop Abuses in Veterans' Schools - how defects in the G.I. Bill of Rights can be remedied; Men, Mikes and Money - politicians and movie stars take to the air waves (conclusion); Fish-Pond Sailors - model-yacht racing. Fiction: Shadow of Fu Manchu (part 1 of 6); The Man Who Went Back; Who'll Sit with the Baby Sitter; My Friend Joseph (conclusion); Code of the West; Clear Havana Filler. Includes nice ads for: Studebaker; Pepsodent; Bell Telephone; Oldsmobile; Mennen Skin Bracer; Mallory hats (color photos); RCA Victor portable radios; Milky Way chocolate bars; Plymouth; Calvert Whiskey (featuring bears by lake); Rama Spin lighters; Dutch Boy paint; Solovox; Admiral radios, phonographs and tvs; General Electric Tastegard coffee makers; Roadmaster bikes; Winthrop shoes; Blatz beer; Botany slacks; Rummy beverage; Kaiser aluminum siding and roofing; MacMillan Oil (featuring service station owner W.F. (Bill) Brost of Los Angeles; Hamm's beer; Revere movie cameras and projectors; Drewry's Ale (featuring Mountie); Hamilton watches; Camel cigarettes (on back cover) featuring Clem Murdaugh, 1946-47 National Motorcycle Hill-Climbing champion. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
195896 pages. Featuers: Musical Education in the USSR; W.J. Turner, 1899-1946 - The Poet as Music Critic; Music at Stratford - Tail of a Comet; The Vancouver International Festival, 1958; Festival Fever in Europe; Index to Volume II; Arnold Walter's Alberta Award; Passing of Percy A. Scholes; Passing of Ralph Vaughan Williams; New Records; Books; and more. Some vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
2007224 pages. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Reprint of the 2003 first edition. "Using both newly released Russian official documents, interviews with the key commanders, information from the private archives of these individuals, and first-hand accounts from espionage operatives, (the author) has constructed a fresh perspective on the history of the modern world." - from dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Book virtually as new. Light wear to dust jacket. An excellent copy. "If you don't know history, you're history." - Jim Berkland. Book
1970322 pages. Translated from the first Russian edition. Contents include: Jews in the land of Kiev Russia and the Moscow State; The first Jews in Russia; The further growth rate of Jews in Russia; Politics of the Russian Government with regard to the Jewish question; How Jewish capital was created in Russia; The social structure of Russian Jewry; Jewish participation and their role in the cultural life of Russia; Jews in Russian literature and criticism; Jews - Russian lawyers; Russian Jewry at the beginning of the twentieth century; The Balis Affair; The Jewish question from February to October 1917; Jews in USSR; Personal-national autonomy; Thirty-year total; The war years; The post-war period; The state of Israel and the problem of double citizenship; Supplements I and II. Apparently the author self-published a first English edition in New York in 1967. This copy may be a later reprint as a small Truth Seeker address label has been placed over original text on the copyright page. Regardless, this copy appears to be circa 1970s or prior. Brown stains to lower portion of back cover modestly affect last three pages - text unaffected. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1990364 pages. Index. Three maps. Black and white photographic plates. "For the first time, a historian - Soviet defector Viktor Suvorov - shows that the USSR's part in starting WWII was much greater, and much more sinister, than has hitherto been assumed. A direct and often harrowing challenge to accepted history. Its achievement is to force us all to revise radically our ideas of - and the reasons for - the most destructive war mankind has ever experienced." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
1967Contents: U.S. Riots - photo of burned plant in Erie and an arrest in Minneapolis; Photo of Javits with Nelson Rockefeller; Time Essay - Violence in America; Hong Kong Leftsits arrested in raid; Negro women eating boxes of laundry starch!; The Turkish Tycoons of Soul - Wexler, Nesuhi & Ahmet Ertugun; Eight pages of photos of tourism in the USSR: Pentacostal Tongues and Converts; Photo of Joe Frazier after defeating George Chuvalo; Photo of Leo Durocher; Drunks in the Bowery; Dissolving Silver for Kodak Film - silver price coming alive; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1952Pages 949-992. Features: Nice colour ad for Goodyear Eagle tires inside front cover shows eagle in flight holding fish; The Australian Prime Minister in London; Full page photo of the Queen's first official birthday photo; Excellent two-page photo of the finish of the 1952 Derby, won by Tulyar; One-page photo of the first Eucharistic Congress for fourteen years as seminarists enter the Montjuich Stadium in Barcelona; General Sir John Harding; Marie Noele Kelly and her travels in the Soviet Union; Photos of impressive Moscow buildings; Two pages of photos which penetrate the darkness behind the Iron Curtain - unofficial views of Moscow and scenes in the USSR 1949-1951 taken by the wife of the then British Ambassador; Two pages of illustrations of life on the new Amsterdam-Rhine Canal; Article on the intentions of the Soviet Union; Photos of the Signing of the European Defence Community (EDC) Treaty - towards a common European Army - with photos of M. Schuman, Mr. Eden and Dr. Adenauer signing; Centerfold illustration of the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, which celebrates the sixth century of its unique foundation on 12 June; Riots in Johannesburg; Photos of the discovery of a new step pyramid at Sakkara; Photos of personalities of the week, including General Sir Ouvry L. Roberts; Photos of foundation preservation work in the canals of Venice; Nice colour ad inside back cover for Ilford Colour Film 'D" features photos from the 1951 Everest expedition led by Eric Shipton; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
196480 pages. Features: Cover photo of diplomatic reception at the White House; Beautiful color fashion ads; Deep Analysis of the American Mind by a British psychiatrist; The Rise and Fall of the Watusi (Tutsi) - Photos and article on an earlier iteration of bloodshed between the Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda; More Americans own shares in U.S. Corporations than ever before; Photos of a ball at the White House - with dancing photos of LBJ, Mrs. Anatoly Dobrynin, Dr. Janet Travell, Datin Ong of Malaysia, Mrs. Antonio Carrillo Flores of Mexico, G. Mennen Williams, Ullina Koroma, Lynda Bird, Dave Lefeve, Lady Bird Johnson and USSR Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin; In Defense of Charles de Gaulle; Why the Girls Scream, Weep, Flip - photo-illustrated article; Hollywood Laughs it Up - funny photos from movies; But Where are the Chaperons?; The Call Him the Greatest on Ice - Photo-illustrated article on Gordie Howe of the Detroit Redwings; Nice color-photo centerfold for Stevens Fabrics features 19 models, including someone who looks a lot like Johnny Carson; Photos of fashionable bookshelves; United States Lines color-photo ad includes Hildegarde, Mr. Leon Cherksey and Mrs. Reed Albee; Kids and Cops - some New York kids eye New York's finest with mixed reactions. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
1946431 pages. Index. Bibliographical Notes. Enables readers to view world events from a Soviet perspective from the time of the Russian Revolution and moving forward. "The authors, who take the Stalinist treason trials and purges at face value, conclude that illusions about the Soviet Union were not shattered until she proved her strength during World War II". - Joel Seidman. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Front hinge tender but intact. Prior owner's signature and small vintage bookseller tag upon front free endpaper. A worthy reference copy of this fascinating work. Kolarz [2] p.153, Seidman S22. Book
1948Pages 365-392. Features: Cover photo of the HMS Duke of York; Series of photos illustrate the "Mouse Trap Mechanics" of atomic science for the man in the street; Review of "Uttermost Part Of The Earth", by E. Lucas Bridges; One-page photo of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh at the tiller of Bluebottle; Photo of Signor Togliatti in Rome; Six photos of the last journey home by Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations' mediator in Palestine, who was assassinated in Jerusalem on September 17 - also killed was his French observer, Col. Serot; Review of the late Gen. George S. Patton, Jr's, book "War as I Knew It"; Five photos and text describe Hyderabad at the time of the surrender, and after; Article on the front line airpower of Great Britain today; Three excellent cutaway diagrams of Britain's front-line fighters of today, "Meteor" and "Vampire"; Fascinating centrefold illustrates seven jet aircraft of the USSR - fighters and bombers of the Soviet Air Force; Photo of Major R. Johnson, US Air Force, at Muroc Dry Lake, California, on September 15 after he established a new airspeed record of 670 mph in an F-86 jetfighter; Photo of the new Hillman Minx; Photo of new Standard Vanguard pickup truck; Five photos of hurricane striking Miami, Florida; Photo of Churchill's grandson, Julian Sandys, aboard light rail locomotive; Photo of Vijayalakasmi Pandit, sister of Pandit Nehru, at the United Nations; Photos of the "Parasite Fighter", US XF-85 leaving its parent aircraft and beginning a 20 minute flight; Photos of personalities of the week include Don Bradman, Lord Gowrie, David Woodford, John R. Nixon, G. S. Cansdale, Sir Warren Fisher, George Marshall, racehorse Brown Jack, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Mr. Vyshinsky, and King Frederick of Denmark with the Duke of Gloucester; Magnificent one-page photo of the interior of King's College Chapel, the finest flour of late Gothic architecture; Page of photos at Arnhem and at the Hague; Page of photos of bats in flight, as photographed by themselves. Advertising outer pages not included. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1961132 pages. Features: It is Happening Here - Current Misconceptions about Communism, by Revilo Oliver; Lincoln's Greatness - 1865; Are Churchmen Burying Us?; Thunder Frightens - Lightning Kills - The Soviet Union and Psychological Warfare; African Witches' Brew Concocted in Moscow - by Major George R. Jordan, author of "From Major Jordan's Diaries"; The Smut Racket Must Be Stopped - "The most infectious point of the disease is the family mailbox. It is here that so much of the pornographical sewage is dumped into the hands of so many of our children"; Let's Take a Look at the Good Guy; "From Your Valentine"; They Make Earthquakes - using seismic technology to find oil; Is Cultural Diplomacy the Road to Peace?; Hollywood Makes Me Laugh - M.J.R. Arthur's journey to the Panamanian jungle; From Religious Rite to Billion-Dollar Business - the origin of the popular pastime of bowling may astonish you; Alcoholism - a major problem; Slave Labor - USSR; What Kind of "Tic" Do You Have?; Foreign Aid Summary; Subjection... Disguised as Rebellion - progress that veers left tends toward subjection; research is Risky Business; We Adopted Two Orphans - Madeline Angell and two squirrels; Socialism by Default; Food for Peace and the UN; Benefit Program; The Administrative Agency Colossus - how laws are made and perverted with neither Congressional action nor judicial review; Guard Our Youth; A Growing Indignation - distrust and resentment to decisions from the Supreme Court; That Temporary Act - enacted as an emergency 26 years ago the TAA has been a millstone around the neck of U.S. industry; How to Win a War; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
198948 pages. Wall-to-wall cartoons featuring: the new George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle administration, 1988 in review, Cathy's censored cartoons, Bill Bramhall interview, Election highlights, Gorbachev and the USSR, Israel and the Palestinians, Foreign Affairs, Ed Meese, Takeovers; Environment; Works by Bill Costello; AIDS/Smoking; Relgion/Sports; Reproductive Issues/The Economy; Obituaries/JFK; Ronald Reagan. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1979Z.A. MEDVEDEV Disastro atomico in URSS. Una catastrofe che i sovietici e gli americani hanno tenuto nascosta. Firenze, Vallecchi 1979 italian, 155 BTT48 Brossura editoriale volume in buone condizioni, segni di usura causati dal fattore tempo sulla copertina, interno in ottimo stato, legatura salda 155 pagine circa Copertina come da foto
1953In 8°. Pagine 487. Brossura editoriale figurata a colori. Lievi tracce d'uso. Alcune macchie e bruniture. Stato di conservazione complessivamente buono. Quinta ristampa con prefazione di Ambrogio Donini. Paolo Robotti, cognato di Palmiro Togliatti, fu tra principali i dirigenti dell'emigrazione politica italiana in Urss, paese nel quale visse per circa vent'anni. Coinvolto nelle purghe staliniane degli anni '30, fu imprigionato per circa un anno e mezzo, per poi essere scagionato e liberato.
1964331pp., slightly worn paperback Clean Copy
1. Ediz. italiana. Firenze-Il Saggiatore, 1960 in 16° pp. 119. Dall’indice: L’orso vuole la coesistenza pacifica; Piano settennale; Riduzione delle forze armate; Problemi internazionali (Berlino ovest, Corea e Laos, Cina e Formosa); Un falso problema, la Luna; Ospitalità sovietica. Leg. cartoné edit. ill. a colori.
1956In 8? (cm 27,5), Graffato, pagg.96 con numerose fotografie b.n. n.t., testo su due colonne, mancanza al margine superiore del piatto anteriore che interessa parzialmente il testo, peraltro buon es.
1970In 8? (cm 25,5), Brossura, pagg.142-(4) con numerose ill. b.n. anche a piena pag. n.t., anche a piena pag., cop.ill. a colori, insignificante strappetto al margine bianco inferiore delle prime dieci carte, segni d'uso alla cop., ma buon es. Dal sommario: "Che cos'? la guerra chimica" di Giorgio Nebbia, "Dal fuoco greco ai tempi moderni" di Bruno Ghibaudi; "La strage di Ypres" di Mario Costa; "L'alba su San Michele" di Giuseppe Mayda; "I mezzi di difesa" di Emilio faldella; "Da Versailles a Ginevra" di Dino Zannoni; "I gas nella guerra d'Etiopia" di Giacomo De Antonellis; "Le armi chimiche di Hitler" di Arrigo Petacco; "La nascita del napalm" di Antonio De Falco; "La guerra di Corea" di manlio Maradei; "La guerra nello Yemen" di Lino Pellegrini; "La guerra nel Vietnam" di Egisto Corradi; "Gli aggressivi chimici dell'URSS" di Mario Lombardo; "Le proposte dell'ONU" di Dino Zannoni; "Gli arsenali chimici nel mondo" di Giorgio Nebbia.
1994In 16? (cm 18), Brossura, pagg.143 copertina illustrata, segni del tempo alla cop., ma buon es. Collana "I libri dell'Unit?", supplemento al n. 106 dell'"Unit?" del 7/5/1994
1980In 8? (cm 21,5), Brossura, pagg.211-(4) foto b.n. dell'Autore al piatto posteriore, segni del tempo alla cop., ma buon es.
1962In 8? (cm 22,5), Brossura, pagg.189-(4) con diverse ill. b.n. n.t., qualche segno a matita o penna, segni del tempo alla cop., ma buon es.
1958No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked front cover, foxing to rear cover and no bumping to corners. Sixteen plates plus 96pp. Catalogue from the Byzantine Art Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1958. Description and discussion of 266 exhibits plus some black & whilte plates.