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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954 Green/blue/gilt covers. Frontispiece of Kozhevniko Liberary of Selected Soviet Literature Stalin Prize 1950 Author of Ocean's Brother 1939. Extra title page in Russian. Illustrated by D. Piatkin. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs 605 pgs. Very Rare OCLC finds 10 copies. Illus. by D. Piatkin. Owner's Bookplate. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.
Description Historique Et Topographique De Moskow Ou Details Sur Les Moeurs Et Usages Des Habitans De Cette Grande Ville Sur Les Palais, Monumens, Tombeaux Des Czars, Monasteres, Eglises, Edifices Public Qu'Elle Renferme, Sur Les Fetes Et Ceremonies by Richter, Johann Gottfried (1764-1829) / J. Richter / Johann Gustaf Richter - 1812
by Richter, Johann Gottfried (1764-1829) / J. Richter / Johann Gustaf Richter
Description Historique Et Topographique De Moskow Ou Details Sur Les Moeurs Et Usages Des Habitans De Cette Grande Ville Sur Les Palais, Monumens, Tombeaux Des Czars, Monasteres, Eglises, Edifices Public Qu'Elle Renferme, Sur Les Fetes Et Ceremonies
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Paris: Pillet, 1812. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo. 67pp, bound in modern black buckram, gilt lettering at spine, new red pastedowns and endpapers; alas, an ex-library copy with faded stamp at title-page and final page, and faded catalog number at title-page, occasional light foxing, some page ends brittle, half-title slightly chipped about 1/16-inches along fore edge, binding is fine. Worldcat / OCLC locates 3 copies, one in Germany, 2 in the U. S. See A. A. Barbier, Ouvrages Anonymes, I, 907. Rare..
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Living Water A Novel in Four Parts
by Kozhevnikov, Alexei
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Dmitry: Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia, 1605-1606
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .
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[Tatar Folk Proverbs] Tatar chalyk makal'lare
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Tatarstan kitap Nasrijaty / Tatarskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. 914, 960, and 1013 pages. Text in Tatar; Russian title from colophon: Tatarskiye narodnyye poslovitsy. The classic collection of Tatar proverbs, more than 38,000, compiled by an acclaimed writer of songs and plays. A new edition was issued in 2010. Scarce in the West, with just one US holding (Harvard, OCLC 83619595) and two incomplete sets in Germany. First edition (first printing). Very good to near fine volumes; no dust jackets, perhaps as issued. Bookplate in each volume.
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Survey of the Russian Empire: according to its present newly regulated state, divided into different governments, shewing their situation and boundaries, the capital and district towns of each government...
by IVANOVICH, Sergei Pelscheev
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1792 1ed RUSSIA English Ivanovich on Russian Empire Military Catherine Great Sergei Pelcheev Ivanovich's 'Survey of the Russian Empire' is perhaps the best 18th-century account of the politics, military, and social customs of the Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. It provides commentary on the different governments in the Russian Empire, including a section of the governing bodies in Estonia, and notes on different ethnic peoples throughout Northern Asia and Eastern Europe
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(Russia- Bindings) Histoire de Pierre III, Empereur de Russie Suivie de L Histoire Secrète des Amours et des Principaux Amans de Catherine II
by LAVEAUX, J.C. Thievault de]
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Paris: Maison La Briffe, 1799. Fine binding signed Hatchards-Piccadilly, the oldest bookshop in London. Three volumes in modern half polished calf over buckram boards, the backs with two black morocco labels and intricate gilt decorations, tops gilt, marbled end papers, Near Fine, the lightest of edge wear. iv, 360, 360, 312 pp. Half-titles in Vols. II and III. Each volume with a frontis illustration, Fine in all volumes. An uncommon history in lovely binding with exceptional plates. . First Edition. Half Polished Calf. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Living Water A Novel in Four Parts
by Kozhevnikov, Alexei
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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954 Green/blue/gilt covers. Frontispiece of Kozhevniko Liberary of Selected Soviet Literature Stalin Prize 1950 Author of Ocean's Brother 1939. Extra title page in Russian. Illustrated by D. Piatkin. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs 605 pgs. Very Rare OCLC finds 10 copies. Illus. by D. Piatkin. Owner's Bookplate. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.
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Dmitry: Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia, 1605-1606
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .
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[Tatar Folk Proverbs] Tatar chalyk makal'lare
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Tatarstan kitap Nasrijaty / Tatarskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. 914, 960, and 1013 pages. Text in Tatar; Russian title from colophon: Tatarskiye narodnyye poslovitsy. The classic collection of Tatar proverbs, more than 38,000, compiled by an acclaimed writer of songs and plays. A new edition was issued in 2010. Scarce in the West, with just one US holding (Harvard, OCLC 83619595) and two incomplete sets in Germany. First edition (first printing). Very good to near fine volumes; no dust jackets, perhaps as issued. Bookplate in each volume.
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Survey of the Russian Empire: according to its present newly regulated state, divided into different governments, shewing their situation and boundaries, the capital and district towns of each government...
by IVANOVICH, Sergei Pelscheev
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1792 1ed RUSSIA English Ivanovich on Russian Empire Military Catherine Great Sergei Pelcheev Ivanovich's 'Survey of the Russian Empire' is perhaps the best 18th-century account of the politics, military, and social customs of the Russia during the reign of Catherine the Great. It provides commentary on the different governments in the Russian Empire, including a section of the governing bodies in Estonia, and notes on different ethnic peoples throughout Northern Asia and Eastern Europe
This 1792 English edition was translated from the original Russian by James Smirnove. Note the huge folding table of arms and uniforms of the Russian Empire.
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IVANOVICH, Sergei Pelscheev
Survey of the Russian Empire: according to its present newly regulated state, divided into different governments, shewing their situation and boundaries, the capital and district towns of each government...
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(Russia- Bindings) Histoire de Pierre III, Empereur de Russie Suivie de L Histoire Secrète des Amours et des Principaux Amans de Catherine II
by LAVEAUX, J.C. Thievault de]
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Paris: Maison La Briffe, 1799. Fine binding signed Hatchards-Piccadilly, the oldest bookshop in London. Three volumes in modern half polished calf over buckram boards, the backs with two black morocco labels and intricate gilt decorations, tops gilt, marbled end papers, Near Fine, the lightest of edge wear. iv, 360, 360, 312 pp. Half-titles in Vols. II and III. Each volume with a frontis illustration, Fine in all volumes. An uncommon history in lovely binding with exceptional plates. . First Edition. Half Polished Calf. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Negotiating with the Soviets
by Raymond F. Smith
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Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and Institute with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, September 1989. Trade paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Slight reading wear to lower corners, otherwise Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 148 pages.
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Dmitry: Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia, 1605-1606
by Barbour, Philip L
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .
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SOVIET POLITICAL THOUGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY
by Jaworskyj, Michael (Editor)
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Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & spine, bumping to spine ends, scuffing to rear cover else still bright, intact and whole.
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Apples and Pears in Orchards of Michurin Experimenters
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Moscow, 1951. COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 10 1/4 inches tall volume with original navy flexible cloth covered boards, cover with blindstamped image of apple, and gilt title; gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers with sepia orchard scene. 130 black & white figures throughout text, and 32 colored plates of apples and pears. Corners and spine ends rubbed, very good. IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Michurin was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins, cultivating methods in connection with the natural course of ontogenesis, directing the process of predominance, evaluation and selection of seedlings, and acceleration of the process of…
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COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS. Five Hundred New Varieties of Apples and Pears Developed in the USSR
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Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1966. COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS OF APPLES AND PEARS DEVELOPED IN THE USSR DURING THE KRUSCHEV AND BREZHNEV ADMINISTRATIONS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed gilt images of apple and pear and gilt title to cover and spine; 255 pages with 64 colored plates, each picturing 2 to 4 varieties. Corners bumped, marginal browning to endpapers, no dust jacket; very good. Text in Russian. From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow Society of Nature Experimenters.
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Michael Strogoff: The Courier Of The Czar (PHOTOPLAY EDITION)
by Jules Verne
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Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.
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Russian Realities: Being Impressions Gathered During Some Recent Journeys in Russia
by Hubback, John
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London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Good in Fair dust jacket; Front boards and spine waterstained, boards . worn, owner name on front free endpaper, pages toned, jacket toned and . tattered and split in two.. 1915. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Green topstain. xv, 271pp. 9.5 x 13 inch folding map of Russia at rear. 16 photo reproductions. The author relates his travels through European regions of Russia in the years just before the Revolution, based on eleven short trips between 1910-1915. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Lenin for Beginners (Pantheon Documentary Comic Books)
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New York: Pantheon, March 1979. Trade Paperback. First Revised American Edition (stated) / first printing (no additional printings listed). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, very tight, and uncreased. Corners sharp. Very slight edge wear is the only thing keeping this from being As New. Its hard to imagine a 40+ year-old book in better condition than this. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 172 pages. Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia.
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The Intimate Diary of a Russian Woman: My Search for Meaning in the Midst of My Country's Upheaval
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New York, William Morrow & Co, 1992, hardcover, 236 pp, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the half-title page, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight. tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge bumps, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. A young woman writes candidly of a choice she feels she must make, between her country's uncertain future, and the promise of life in the West. Translation by Antonina W. Bouis. ISBN 9780688104160
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