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Russia 1917: The February Revolution by: Katkov, George
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Russia 1917: The February Revolution by: Katkov, George

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 489 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is chipped and worn, and the spine has been sunned. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains bind-in with B&W photography. This book examines the Russian revolution of February 1917, also known as the 'liberal' revolution. Long overshadowed by the Bolshevik revolution, this book presents important features of the Russian political scene post WWI. Previous owner's name is present on first front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33908
Price: $30.00 

Russia's First World War: Social and Economic History by: Gatrell, Peter
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Russia's First World War: Social and Economic History by: Gatrell, Peter

Softcover. Harlow, England, Pearson Education Limited, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. The story of Russia's First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the grand drama that unfolded in 1917. This book shows that war is itself revolutionary in that it ruptures established social and economic ties, but also creates new social and economic relationships, affiliations, practices and opportunities. Clean copy. Record # 33976
Price: $25.00 

Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929 by: Ball, Alan M.
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Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929 by: Ball, Alan M.

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, soft cover. Covers are in very good condition overall, despite a few minor dings and some sticker residue on the rear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book is an economic history of the Soviet Union, focussing primarily on the consequences of Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP). Previous owner's light underlining is present throughout in pencil. Record # 34279
Price: $15.00 

Russian Peasant Schools: Officialdom, Village Culture, and Popular Pedagogy, 1861-1914 by: Eklof, Ben
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Russian Peasant Schools: Officialdom, Village Culture, and Popular Pedagogy, 1861-1914 by: Eklof, Ben

Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, February 13, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 652 pages. Slight crease to spine, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 458241
Price: $12.00 

Russian Revolution, 1917, The  by: Wade, Rex A.
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Russian Revolution, 1917, The by: Wade, Rex A.

Softcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 337 pages, b&w illustrations. Markings in ink to a handful pages. Clean, tight copy. Record # 459438
Price: $12.00 

Russian writers and Soviet society, 1917-1978 by: Hingley, Ronald
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Russian writers and Soviet society, 1917-1978 by: Hingley, Ronald

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 296 pages. Remainder-stamp to top edge, light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453330
Price: $12.00 

Saga America by: Fell, Barry
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Saga America by: Fell, Barry

Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 425 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been well protected by a plastic covering. Orange cloth covers with green text are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. B&W photography and illustrations throughout. End pages feature a timeline of historical events. This book maintains that complex, advanced societies flourished in the Americas well before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, and uses artifacts found across America to support the theory. Clean copy. Record # 33875
Price: $45.00 

Saint Peter a Biography by: Grant, Michael
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Saint Peter a Biography by: Grant, Michael

Hardcover. Barnes Noble Books, rep., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Record # 457100
Price: $12.00 

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine by: Casper, Scott E.
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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine by: Casper, Scott E.

Hardcover. US, Hill and Wang, reprint, 2008-01-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 466094
Price: $12.00 

School for Genius: The Story of the ETH --The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, from 1855 to the Present by: Moore, Thomas
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School for Genius: The Story of the ETH --The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, from 1855 to the Present by: Moore, Thomas

Hardcover. New York, 1st, March 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 452987
Price: $12.00 

Science at the Bedside: Clinical Research in American Medicine, 1905-1945 by: McGehee, Professor A. Harvey
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Science at the Bedside: Clinical Research in American Medicine, 1905-1945 by: McGehee, Professor A. Harvey

Hardcover. US, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1981-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464608
Price: $12.00 

Science in Nineteenth-Century America - A Documentary History by: Reingold, Nathan
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Science in Nineteenth-Century America - A Documentary History by: Reingold, Nathan

London, Macmillan, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Very faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy. Record # 603592
Price: $12.00 

Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism by: Stacks, John F.
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Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism by: Stacks, John F.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2002-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and scratching to lightly soiled dust jacket. Record # 465872
Price: $12.00 

screening of America, The: movies and values from Rocky to Rain Man by: O'Brien, Tom
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screening of America, The: movies and values from Rocky to Rain Man by: O'Brien, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Continuum, reprint, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 469534
Price: $12.00 

Sculpture Through the Ages by: Rothschild, LincolnForward: Manship, Paul
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Sculpture Through the Ages by: Rothschild, Lincoln Forward: Manship, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 2nd Print, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles are in good condition, with some staining, and fading near the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. From the ancient Greeks to modern times, sculpture has been a powerful form of expression and a reflection of human creativity. In this richly illustrated volume, Lincoln Rothschild offers a captivating survey of the history of sculpture, exploring its many styles, techniques, and themes. This is a large format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34078
Price: $20.00 

Search for the Panchen Lama by: Hilton, Isabel
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Search for the Panchen Lama by: Hilton, Isabel

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages, b&w photos, very clean, tight copy. Record # 801167
Price: $12.00 

Second Flowering by: Cowley, Malcolm
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Second Flowering by: Cowley, Malcolm

Hardcover. London, HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1st, October 11, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages, several b&w photographs. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Light foxing, soiling to top and fore-edge. Else clean and tight. Record # 454051
Price: $12.00 

Second Year Of The Nixon Watch, The  by: Osborne, John
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Second Year Of The Nixon Watch, The by: Osborne, John

hardcover. NY, Liveright , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations by Bill Maudlin. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Record # 202450
Price: $12.00 

Secret Six - The true Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown, The by: Renehan, Jr., Edward J.
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Secret Six - The true Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown, The by: Renehan, Jr., Edward J.

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Book shows standard wear. Dust jacket shows minor rubbing. Record # 608766
Price: $12.00 

Selected Masterpieces of New York State Painting by: Anderson, Marna Brill
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Selected Masterpieces of New York State Painting by: Anderson, Marna Brill

Softcover. Not given, Museum of American Folk Art, Not given, Not given, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with dark covers, color plates; minor rubbing, edges warped. Staple wrappers. Newspaper clippings on exhibition inside of front cover. 20 b/w plates of folk painting by various artists. 51 items listed. Text on the history of folk painting in New York and the selection in the exhibition. 16 pages. Occasional minor pen marks on pages, but otherwise copy is clean and tight. Record # 808563
Price: $12.00 

Sensing the Enemy by: Borton, Lady
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Sensing the Enemy by: Borton, LadySensing the Enemy by: Borton, Lady

Sensing the Enemy by: Borton, Lady

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book describes the horrifying plight of the Vietnamese "boat people" who faced disease, pirate attacks, unsanitary and crowded conditions, and other dangers to escape from Vietnam to Pulau Bi Dong, a tiny, previously uninhabited island in Malaysia. Clean copy. Record # 34151
Price: $12.00 

Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov by: Hoch, Steven L.
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Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov by: Hoch, Steven L.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 220 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with several open tears concentrated along the top edge. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains graphs and tables throughout. This book examines how, to the peasant in imperial Russia, death and disease were far more potent forces than czar or landlord. Although the legal and economic history of serfdom has received widespread scholarly attention, the social aspects of serf life have been ignored. Hoch fills this gap with his research on the estate of the Gagarin noble family in Petrovskoe. This is an ex-library book, with the standard exterior markings, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33983
Price: $12.00 

Seven Daughters of Eve, The: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by: Sykes, Bryan
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Seven Daughters of Eve, The: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by: Sykes, Bryan

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Gilt titles on spine. Shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468013
Price: $12.00 

Seven Years in France: Francois Mitterrand and the Unintended Revolution, 1981-1988 by: Friend, Julius W.
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Seven Years in France: Francois Mitterrand and the Unintended Revolution, 1981-1988 by: Friend, Julius W.

Hardcover. Boulder, CA, Westview Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering to the spine, blue dust jacket with white lettering and black illustrations. A clean, tight copy. Record # 604776
Price: $12.00 


  
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