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1937ref. 26292New York: Pioneer Publishers 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 31pp. A bit dust-soiled spine slightly rubbed else Very Good. Translation of an article that first appeared in the March 1937 issue of Nouvelles d'U.R.S.S. an information bulletin published by the "Que Faire" group of left Communists led by Andre Ferrat. Pioneer Publishers unknown books
1904ref. 1626711904. MOSCOW. "Souvenir de Moscou". The prints measuring 162 x 222 mm. Oblong folio 240 x 340 mm bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco. NP ND. Moscow1904 $ 3500.00 The 24 plates depict the major sights along the Moscva River Red Square the Kremlin St. Basils Cathedral etc. in early colour photography. The album inscribed and dated 1904. Binding a bit rubbed the photographs in fine condition. unknown books
1897ref. 1532991897. MOSCOW. Guide du voyageur a Moscou. By A. and F. Tastevin. 4 194; 29 1 XIII 1 pp. Illustrated with 30 photographic views in text and two large folding maps of Moscow. 8vo. 153 x 105 mm bound in publisher's green cloth title gilt on front cover. Moscow: Imprimerie Th. I. Hagen 1897. Second revised edition of Tastevin's well known travel guide to Moscow in French with notes on religion government climate literature and mostly city monuments. There is practical advice offered including a listing of restaurants hotels stores tramways etc. Then as expected are guides to libraries churches theaters clubs circuses universities etc. followed by a short history of Moscow. The second part of Tastevin's Guide offers more in-depth descriptions of the major sites to be visited and is followed by a vocabulary and conversation manual. Erratum slip on one page 31. A near fine copy. hardcover books
ref. P6161Moscow: Informatsionnyi Tsentr Moskovskogo Narodnogo Fronta 1988. Octavo 19 × 14 cm. Original side-stapled blind card wrappers: 123 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; some rust to staples. Internally very good or better. This samizdat directory of "amateur socio-political organizations" published by the Moscow People's Front is a remarkable record of the burgeoning civil society in the late Soviet period as well as such phenomena as environmentalism and urban conservation. The Moscow People's Front MNF was founded in June 1988 when members of some forty amateur organizations convened to draft a ratification document and elect a governing body. According to this document "The objective of MNF is to aid in the democratic self-organization of the masses and to fight for socialist renewal of society for a democratic socialism." While the group advocated democracy "freedom of press and speech freedom of public protest" as well as for "a democratic planning of the economy" they saw this reform happening within the framework of socialism and "respect for the principles of socialism" was discussed as being of key significance. MNF further advocated for all government to be given over to "democratically elected Soviets" for labor unions to exist outside of government control and for ecological concerns to be taken seriously in the management of country's natural resources. The organization held weekly protests at Pushkinskaia Square in Moscow throughout the summer of 1988 to draw attention to its goals. This directory of socio-political organizations throughout the Soviet Union was created by MNF in the same year for internal use. The first "amateur organisations" sprang up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s during the Thaw. However these were mostly non-political in nature cultural literary scientific or sports clubs. Emboldened by Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika Transparency and Rebuilding the amateur organisations took on an increasingly political bent. In 1986 a new decree "Regulations on Amateur Associations" legalised the registration and functioning of amateur or "informal" associations in the Soviet Union. Observing this movement in 1990 Lyudmila Alekseeva wrote for the Helsinky Watch Committee: "The emergence of so many spontaneous free associations since 1986 is working a fundamental change in Soviet life. What was for so long a grey and mute mass is now speaking out in a chorus of vigorous dissonant voices. A society that was atomized by Stalinist terror has begun to restructure itself. . Nicknamed by the Soviet press as neformaly or "informals" to distingush them from participants in officially organised and controlled bodies these millions of historic preservationists environmentalists political activists nationalists human rights campaigners body-builders pacifists sports fans Afghan war veterans hippies rock-music devotees and others are the grassroots activsts and sometimes the strategists of the new social movements" Neformaly: Civil Society in the USSR. New York: Helsinki Watch 1990. Despite the publicaton of this report the burgeoning of civil society in the late Soviet period was quickly forgotten. It comes to light in this directory. The directory is organized by republic and city and each entry gives the name of the organization the organization's focus and objectives as well as a brief history of its formation closing with contact information. Nearly 200 socialist anarchist nature and historical preservation organizations are listed all across the country each ranging in size from just a dozen to hundreds of members. The primary purpose of many of the associations listed in the directory is a kind of whistleblowing. For example the Moscow based "press-club" Glasnost defined its mission as "helping the individuals whose rights are being trampled by local authorities. . The aid is provided by publishing their story in the eponymous journal printed and distributed by the organization." Demokraticheskii Soiuz Democratic Union defined its mission as "opposition to totalitarianism" by organizing events and protests "promoting pluralism." Another Moscow based organization "Narodnyi arkhiv" People's Archive was actively compiling an archive of all manner of Samizdat self-published materials. The Leningrad based Demokratizatsiia profsoiuzov Democratization of Worker's Unions advocated "the creation of worker's unions that would be independent from the state." Arkhangelsk based "Ekologiia severa" Ecology of the north is one of many environmental organizations listed in the directory. The volume closes with organizations with a nationwide presence such as "Memorial" а group for the "preservation of memory of victims of Stalinism" and "providing aid to the victims of Stalinism" headed by the Soviet scientist and dissident activist Andrei Sakharov. Together the organizations in the directory provide a broad overview of the social concerns of Soviet citizens as well as the mechanisms that were available for their organizing. The volume is a remarkable time capsule of the burgeoning civil society in the last years of the Soviet state. Many of the organizations went on to achieve significant results often on the regional level and some of their initiators were to be elected to political positions. KVK OCLC show various copies of the first part suggesting that no further issues were published. Scarce in the trade. unknown books
1979ref. 260573Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou 1979. First. paperback. very good. Frontispiece and hundreds of illustrations some in color. 580 pages with text in French. Thick 4to stiff pictorial wrappers spine just a bit creased. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou 1979. First edition. A very good copy. Exhibition catalogue. Centre Georges Pompidou unknown books
1900ref. 33016Basel: Niclaus Brillinger 1900. Reprint of the 1567 edition. 3 double-page maps 5 large woodcuts in the text. 12 246 6pp. 1 vols. Folio. Modern vellum covers a little bowed and soiled. Title-leaf repaired at inner margin and outer corner restored; final leaf likewise repaired at inner margin; text moderately darkened and occasional marginal foxing. Reprint of the 1567 edition. 3 double-page maps 5 large woodcuts in the text. 12 246 6pp. 1 vols. Folio. Fine Facsimile. Facsimile reprint of the Basel 1567 edition of Herberstein's rare and early 16th-century Moscow travels from - which itself was the second edition in German of the original Latin RERUM MUSCOVITICARUM COMMENTARII Vienna 1549. Baron von Herberstein was Ambassador from Emperor Maximilian I to the Grand Prince Vasiley Ivanovic in 1517. It wasn't translated into English until 1851-1852 when it appeared as NOTES UPON RUSSIA BEING A TRANSLATION FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF THAT COUNTRY . with Notes and Introduction by Richard Henry Major London Hakluyt Society 1851. One salient feature of the Basel 1567 edition is the three striking double-page maps which enhance its interest. Niclaus Brillinger unknown books
1905ref. 20296New York: Russian Orthodox Church 1905. Softcover. Very good. 4-3/4 x 7-1/2" stapled printed wraps pp. 351-390 staples rusted but sound a little rubbing to the wraps a short tear at the spine foot very good to near fine. An epistolary tempest. Ingram Nathaniel Washington Irvine 1849-1921 an ordained Anglican Episcopalian priest in 1905 "weary of strife filled with love and truly convinced that the Holy Orthodox Church was the truest medium of unity" i.e. represented a purer more Catholic path was reordained in said church by the Archibishop Tikhon and assigned to St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York City setting off a war of words that rivals the best of them to quote one representative passage: "his letter being so vulgar disreputable and in all respects so absolutely untruthful. With contempt we pass it by". No mere posturing this: The dust-up captured the attention of the nation and resulted over time in the adaptation of both Churches into their current forms. The supplement at hand puts forth the full text of various letters shot back and forth across the bows of the principals although its sympathies are clearly with Irvine who in his new position served directly under Hotovitzky the publisher. The 'Russian Orthodox American Messenger' itself was first published in 1896 issued in Russian with a monthly English-language supplement as here; its ceased publication in 1973. [Russian Orthodox Church] paperback books
1967ref. 2010Moscow: Moscow News 1967. No Edition Stated. Oblong Octavo 5 x 8 inches; 125 x 203 mm 80 pages in stapled pictorial wrappers. Booklet containing 12 popular Soviet songs in English and Russian including Moscow Nights rendered here in English as Moscow Evenings. Lovely cover with the upper wrapper featuring piano keys along the spine and a drawing of a Kremlin tower topped by a red star. SCARCE. CONDITION: Wrappers a bit soiled light edge wear staple rusted pages very lightly toned and some lightly creased. A Very Good copy. Moscow News paperback books
2012ref. 282352Moscow 2012. hardcover. fine. Extensively illustrated. 229pp. plus ads. 8vo plain white boards. Moscow: Moscow World Fine Art Fair 2012. A fine copy. unknown books
ref. 162628hardcover. illus. 8vo cloth. N.Y.: Putnam 1959. vg unknown books
1965ref. 042432Moskva: Nauka 1965. 2d Revised and enlarged Edition. Otvetstvennyi redaktor G. Sh Sharbatov. 2 vols. 891 1p. original half-cloth with stiff printed boards in Russian with added half-title summary and table of contents also in English. Includes 81 papers by Russian linguists and literary historians covering early Semitic languages in the Middle East Ethiopia and North Africa. Semitskie iazyki 2:1-2. Nauka unknown books
1920ref. 35627Petrograd 1920. Paperback. Good. 111p. wrapper. 19cm. Title-page torn. Text browned. Partially unopened. German text. paperback books
1865ref. 37352Moscou: Saba eveque de Mojaisk 1865. 2nd ed. revised corrected and augmented. Paperback. Fair. 32 2 iip. plus 15 plates. Original green wrapper. 34cm. Cover worn torn and chipped. Light foxing throughout heavier on margins of plates. Binding broken. Unopened. French text. Russian Orthodox Church. Saba, eveque de Mojaisk paperback books
1920ref. 35626Wien 1920. Paperback. Fair. 203p. Wrapper. 21cm. Cover chipped. Front cover detached. Text browned. German text. paperback books
1946ref. 37154Moscow 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. photos & illustrations 847p. Blue binding. 26cm. No Jacket. Title in Russian and English; text in Russian. hardcover books
1961ref. 174282London: the March 1961. 6.5x12.5 inch sheet printed in English one one side and Russian on the other horizontal fold crease otherwise very good. Outlines the purpose of the march and calls for Gandhian resistance to violence. The marchers had by this time walked from San Francisco to Washington DC then flown to England where they were met with a large rally in Trafalgar Square before continuing into Europe where they eventually reached Moscow. the March unknown books
1993ref. 000988Lesosibirsk 1993. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. 35; stapled wraps; minor wear and age-toning along margins; near fine condition. Scientific articles on the various issues facing the Central Siberian Region including forest fires chemical contamination etc. Lesosibirsk paperback books
1989ref. 127268Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik 1989. Hardbound. VGminor bumps to spine and corners. In Russian. Color pictorial boards 368 pp profuse color images many full-page size. Sovetskii Khudozhnik hardcover books
1930ref. 6042721930. 3 1/4" x 5"; 4 pages. Very good ca. 1930's. Entertainment included: Vera Smirnova - The Gypsy Queen of Song. Olga Soloviava - Oriental Danseuse. Olga Larseena - Russian Classic Folk Dance. Vladimir Dubinsky - Baritone Dolinoff - Gypsy Dancer. Nadya Alexandrova Luncheon 65 cents; Dinner $1.25. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1963ref. 2109150430xbvkMilano, Edizioni Salto, 1963. 163 (1) pages, many medium-glossy plares (few coloured). - Publisher's constructivistic designed softcover; 8vo.(ca. 22 x 17 cm).
1932ref. 92109210437xbvkMoscow, 'Federatsija' (Federation), 1932. 94 (2) pages on fine paper. - Publisher's color-illustrated (by A. Levina) hardcover binding titled in russian cyrillic; 8vo.(ca. 16 x 11,5 cm).
1980ref. 123025Éditions d'art Aurore, Léningrad, 1980. 433 S. ; 35 x 27 cm ; Leinen.
1979ref. SPOR0124Moscow, Progress Publ. (1979). quer gr.-8°, 172 S., mit zahlr. Farbfotos, farb. lam. OPpbd., hint. Vors. etwas schmutzig und mit kl. Rasurspur, unwesentliche Gebrauchsspuren.
1965ref. 104109BBHamburg, Nannen, 1965. 4°. 184 S. mit 169 Tafeln. OLn. mit OU. [8 Warenabbildungen] ("Die Zeit" Bücher).
2003ref. 39659Palace Editions, St. Petersburg, 2003. 182 Seiten / pp., mit zahlreichen Abbildungen / richly illustrated; 4°, 30 x 25 cm. Pappeinband mit Schutzumschlag / Hardcover with Jacket
