Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Some slight tanning to edges and pages, otherwise clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great condition. The reader is invited to see the varied beauty and special qualities of the art and architecture of the monasteries of England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe by a knowledgeable, urbane, and entertaining guide who has never lost his capacity for wonder.
Hardcover. Boulder, Colo, 1st, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 349 pages. Black cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with some soiling, slight wear and small tear to back cover. Top edge foxed, remaindermark to bottom edge. Internally very clean. A nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Westview Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Kraus) on half title page. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. London UK, Turnstile Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Fully informed analysis of a social and economic revolution. Heavy rubbing, age-toning, and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to top and bottom board edges. Bumping to corners. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boulder CO, Eastern European Monographs, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (SLAVKO) on front flyleaf. History of relations between Serbia and Albania. Very faint soiling to front panel. Light age toning to top edge. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Outlook Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 673 pages. Hardcover. Volume XXIV only. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 396 pages. Dust jacket cover edge wear and tear. Half inch chunk missing from spine top. Previous owner's stamp on front flyleaf. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Macmillan Press LTD, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, all edges. Small tear to dust jacket bottom spine. rubbing to boards, confined to top and bottom edges. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.
Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Softcover. French flaps. Color illustrations throughout. In very good shape, clean inside and out.
Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries-surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda-turned joke-telling into an art form, using them as a coded way of speaking the truth and coping with the absurdity of the system. In this poignant and historically revealing book, rare and previously unpublished archive material, including cartoons, caricatures, photographs, and oral transcripts take the reader on a unique journey through the real experience of the Communist era. 25+ B&W illustrations throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33934
Hardcover. Vilnius, Lithuania, State Enterprise Valstybes Zinios, 1st, 1998, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 637 pages, hardcover. Black cloth covers have some white dappled staining, and the edges are worn with rubbing to the rear corner and middle fore-edge. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography of Lithuanian crosses throughout. This book's text is in Lithuanian, and it contains not only a collection of Lithuanian folk artist's marvelous sacral works, but it is also a snapshot of the nation's soul, replete with suffering, struggle and survival. This large-form book is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34018
Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. Tight, clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Prague, Odeon, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, color photos throughout. Endpaper maps. In a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Bucharest Rumania, The Book Publishing House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages, translated from Rumanian by Ana Cartianu. Introduction by Silvian Iosifescu. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.
Hardcover. Wein GR, A. Hartlebens, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ca 1920. 108 pages, illustrated with 142 b&w photographs, decorative endpapers. No date given but appears to be circa 1920. German text. White cloth covers with brown and gilt lettering, photo pastedown on front. Small bump to top right corner of cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, In a bright, unclipped dust jacket that has a faint purple stripe along top and bottom edge. Not noticeable on wraparound design but evident on the flaps. An epic novel of nomads and warfare in medieval Eastern Europe. Scarce original 1967 printing in exceptional condition.
Softcover. Vail CO, Vail Fine Art Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated in color. Csoka was born in Hungary and was an established artist there before moving to America in the 30s with his new wife. A retrospective of his life and work. Clean, bright copy.
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