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Acquired Traits


Berg, Raissa

Softcover. New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Penguin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages. Minor wear to stiff wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453456


Price: $12.00 

 

Aleksandr Blok: A Life


Berberova, Nina

Hardcover. Boston, G. Braziller, 1st US, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Transl. from French by Robyn Marsack

Record # 55758


Price: $20.00 

Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual RevolutionaryActon, Edward

Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary


Acton, Edward

Hardcover. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, April 30, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 194 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket; spine faded. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453584


Price: $40.00 

 

Alexander Pushkin: A celebration of Russia's best-loved writer


Briggs, A.D.P.

Hardcover. US, Hazar, 1st, 1999-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462921


Price: $10.00 

 

Alexandre II: Vingt-Six Ans De Regne


De Cardonne, C.

Hardcover. Paris, Jouvet and Co., 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 868 pages, leather spine with maroon covers, b&w frontispiece of Alexander. Gilt lettering on ribbed spine, leather corners to boards. Book was originally from a Russian library judging from the stamping and Russian language bookplate on inside front cover. Spine leather starting to separate, one edge with 4 inch tear. Internally very good. French text throughout.

Record # 404689


Price: $70.00 

Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass WarsWhite, G. Edward

Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars


White, G. Edward

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, March 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else very good.

Record # 454790


Price: $12.00 

Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the "First" EmigrationBeaujour, Elizabeth Klosty

Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the "First" Emigration


Beaujour, Elizabeth Klosty

hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468940


Price: $19.00 

Alone TogetherBonner, Elena

Alone Together


Bonner, Elena

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, b&w photos. White dust jacket shows minor yellowing due to age, page 57 dog-eared, else a very nice, tight, clean copy in clear mylar cover.

Record # 452893


Price: $12.00 

 

Anastasia/The Riddle of Anna Anderson


Kurth, Peter

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 7608


Price: $15.00 

 

Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet


Reader, Roberta

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 619 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The tragic story of one our century's greatest poets. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. With black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951580


Price: $29.00 

 

Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet


Reeder, Roberta

Hardcover. New York , St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 619 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462862


Price: $15.00 

 

Anna Pavlova: Her Life and Art


Money, Keith

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 425 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Dust jacket with soil, big chip to rear panel.

Record # 405517


Price: $44.00 

 

Anton Tchekhov - Literary and Theatrical Reminiscences


Koteliansky (Editor), S. S.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st UK, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Foxing to edges and some pages throughout. Covers show standard wear. Unmarked text.

Record # 609515


Price: $20.00 

At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac BabelPirozhkova, A.N.

At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel


Pirozhkova, A.N.

Softcover. South Royalton, VT, Steerforth, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers, light foxing on page block.

Record # 468481


Price: $10.00 

 

Behind the Bolshoi Curtain


Collins, Richard

Hardcover. London, UK, William Kimber, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, Back flap has a small crease, dj in good shape. Pages and edges lightly tanned, doesn't affect text or illustrations. The technical and artistic mastery of the Bolshoi, described by Collins, a dancer with the company for four years.

Record # 32001


Price: $44.00 

 

Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time


Edmonds, David; Eidinow, John

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front cover slightly warped, otherwise clean, tight copy. Black and white photographs in center.

Record # 2233426


Price: $15.00 

Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All TimeEdmonds, David

Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time


Edmonds, David

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468442


Price: $13.00 

Boris GodounovPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Illust. by: Boris Zvorykin

Boris Godounov


Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Illust. by: Boris Zvorykin

hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469479


Price: $23.00 

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanMassie, Robert K.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman


Massie, Robert K.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 656 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with minor shelf wear to dust jacket back. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 470821


Price: $23.00 

 

Caught in the Crossfire


Goodwin, Jan

Hardcover. US, Dutton Adult, 2nd printing, 1987-03-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460711


Price: $13.00 

 

Chaliapin - An Autobiography as told to Maxim Gorky


Gorky, Maxim

NY, Stein and Day, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color frontis, black & white illust. 320 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 65569


Price: $23.00 

Creation of Nikolai Gogol, TheFanger, Donald

Creation of Nikolai Gogol, The


Fanger, Donald

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 300 pages, blue cloth in dust jacket that has edgewear, chipping.

Record # 402933


Price: $12.00 

 

Culture in Exile: Russian Emigres in Germany, 1881-1941


Williams, Robert C.

Hardcover. Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press [1972], Cornell University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 404 pages, b&w photos. Some rubbing, edgewear and tearing to dust jacket. Internally very good.

Record # 459505


Price: $38.00 

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold WarBeisner, Robert L.

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War


Beisner, Robert L.

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st , 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 800 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "...Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century."

Record # 30208


Price: $25.00 

 

Death of Hitler, The: The Final Words From Russia's Secret Archives


Petrova, Ada

Hardcover. London, Richard Cohen Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471198


Price: $13.00 

Diaries of Sofia TolstoyNo Author

Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy


No Author

Hardcover. rep., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 609 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight bumps to all corners, light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457859


Price: $38.00 

 

Dostoevski's Image in Russia Today


Seduro, Vladimir

Hardcover. Belmont, MA, Nordland Publishing Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 508 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning, otherwise excellent and wrapped in protective plastic cover. In great condition. Including Appendix.

Record # 32038


Price: $31.00 

 

Elizabeth, The Exiles of Siberia - A Tale, Founded on Facts From the French of Madame Cottin


Cottin, Madame

Hardcover. New York, Hurst & Co., Publishers, Reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with embossed black printed decoration & titles to cover. Gilt compartment lines, gilt text block and black printed decoration to spine. Frontis illustration, Polish Exiles on Their Way to Siberia, in black & white protected with a tissue guard. Additional engravings in bw & one loose plate. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Light foxing to edges, tight binding, light fraying to spine crown & heel, otherwise clean throughout.

Record # 751317


Price: $25.00 

 

Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch: An Appreciation of his Life and Works


Jordan & Wright, ed., William George & Richardson

Hardcover. New York, The Authors Club, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pp. An examination of the life and literature of Russia's Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch, through the eyes of American writers. A literary hoax. Larrovitchis an imaginery writer.

Record # 604846


Price: $11.00 

Feud, The: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful FriendshipBeam, Alex

Feud, The: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship


Beam, Alex

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470313


Price: $15.00 

From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Upbringing, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All RussiaShusherin, Ioann

From Peasant to Patriarch: Account of the Birth, Upbringing, and Life of His Holiness Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia


Shusherin, Ioann

Softcover. Lexington Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459500


Price: $19.00 

 

Gorbachev - A Biography


Butson, Thomas G.

Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 170 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607923


Price: $8.00 

 

Gorbachev: The Path to Power


Schmidt-Hauer, Christian

Hardcover. Salem House Pub, 1st Am, June 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 218 pages. Light edge wear, wrinkling to dust jacket. Else clean and tight.

Record # 453587


Price: $8.00 

 

Gorky - A Biography


Troyat, Henri

NY , Crown, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 601697


Price: $8.00 

 

Gorky: A Biography


Troyat, Henri

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from French by Lowell Bair.

Record # 404544


Price: $10.00 

Great Russian Dancers, TheSmakov, Gennady

Great Russian Dancers, The


Smakov, Gennady

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing to textblock edges. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. 343 black & white photographs. Publishers correction note on page 150.

Record # 471576


Price: $25.00 

Hitler And Stalin: Parallel LivesBullock, Alan

Hitler And Stalin: Parallel Lives


Bullock, Alan

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1081 pages, numerous b&w photos. Light edge-wear, scratches to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453343


Price: $18.00 

 

How Count L.N. Tolstoy Lives and Works


Sergyeenko, P. A.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1st , 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 100 pages. Translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. Previous owner's signature on title page. Black & white photos with tissue guards. Facsimile page from manuscript. Tender gutters at hinges. Green cloth binding with gold lettering front, spine. Back flyleaf creased. Corners bumped. Light edgewear to spine edges.

Record # 509156


Price: $38.00 

 

I am the Most Interesting Book of All: the Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff Vol.1


Bashkirtseff, Marie

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only light wear to covers. Adhesive residue on inside front flap of dust jacket.

Record # 2233475


Price: $19.00 

 

Ilya Ehrenburg - Revolutionary Novelist, Poet, War Correspondent, Propaganist: The Extraordinary Epic of Russian Survivor


Goldberg, Anatol

NY, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Frontis drawing of Ehrenburg by Picasso. 312 pages.

Record # 65748


Price: $18.00 

 

Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought, The


Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 331 pages. Dust jacket worn with a few closed tears, minor chipping to upper edges. Clean, tight copy

Record # 453489


Price: $15.00 

 

Ivan the Terrible


Payne, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 502 pages, b&w illustrations, map end papers. Underlining to a few pages. Several pages dog-eared. Light edge wear to dust jacket, spine slightly faded. Else clean and tight.

Record # 453356


Price: $15.00 

 

Jascha Keifetz: Early Years in Russia


Kopytova, Galina

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, Reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 475 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title stamped on spine. Cover boards excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, pristine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. Like new. Tracing Jascha Keifetz's little-known upbringing, this book uncovers the events and experiences that shaped one of the modern era's most unique talents and enigmatic personalities.

Record # 31712


Price: $25.00 

 

John Paul Jones in Russia


Golder F. A.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page and Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Blue cloth cover with some wear to spine and edges. Edges are slightly bumped. Minor foxing on front and back endpaper. Pages untrimmed. Edition limited to 1,001 copies, this is number 343. Inside is clean with many b&w illustrations and maps throughout.

Record # 852485


Price: $40.00 

 

K. F. Ryleev: A Political Biography of the Decembrist Poet


O'Meara, Patrick

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Fading to dust jacket spine with marker mark on back side. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855525


Price: $15.00 

 

Khrushchev and the Soviet Leadership, 1957-1964


Linden, Carl A.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins Press, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Gray cloth, silver lettering to spine, no dust jacket. Minor wear to covers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 607884


Price: $15.00 

 

Kishinev Pogrom: Memoirs of a Russian Governor, The


Urussov, Prince Serge Dmitriyevich

Hardcover. New York, Bergman Publishers, Reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. About five pages with top corner slightly creased. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856292


Price: $63.00 

Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the MoonHarford, James

Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon


Harford, James

softcover. New York, Wiley, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures in center. Light crease to front wrapper.

Record # 469960


Price: $19.00 

 

Lenin - A New Biography


Volkogonov, Dmitri

New York, Free, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 529 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Record # 207069


Price: $20.00 

 

Leon Trotsky


Warth, Robert D.

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne/G.K. Hall, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages, b&w frontispiece. Tan cloth with gilt titles and design. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611006


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Death of Lenin, The


Payne, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket worn, Closed tears.

Record # 107451


Price: $18.00 

 

Life of Lenin, The


Fischer, Louis

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & whtie photos

Record # 57674


Price: $23.00 

 

Life of Mayakovsky, The


Woroszylski, Wiktor

Hardcover. NY, Orion Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 559 pages. Blue cloth covers. Dust jacket has fading, rubbing, tape on back, small tear to bottom edge, and sticker on front flap. Remainder spray top edge. Slight foxing to back cover.Tight copy.

Record # 855600


Price: $23.00 

Lifelong Passion, A : Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story Mironenko, Sergei; Maylunas,Andrei

Lifelong Passion, A : Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story


Mironenko, Sergei; Maylunas,Andrei

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 667 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated end papers and pastedowns. Foxing to edges. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469259


Price: $13.00 

 

Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution, The - Reminiscences and Letters of Catherine Breshkovsky


Blackwell, Alice Stone

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 6th, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Hardcover. Light wrinkling on frontispiece. Slight stains from pre-title page to preface. Previous owner stamp on front flyleaf. no dust jacket. Covers show light staining. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 602711


Price: $15.00 

Little Mother of RussiaHall, Coryne

Little Mother of Russia


Hall, Coryne

Softcover. Unknown, rep., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 398 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 457980


Price: $50.00 

 

Love and Hatred - The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy


Shiver, William L.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 53293


Price: $9.00 

Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries, The Haimson, Leopold H.

Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries, The


Haimson, Leopold H.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, 1st PB, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 515 pages. Light wear, rubbing to edges and spine, slight dent on front cover, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 453316


Price: $50.00 

 

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell


Feiler, Lily

Hardcover. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of noted Russian poet. Light fading to dust jacket spine. Edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Foxing to all copy edges; mild foxing to first four pages, to top edges.

Record # 951271


Price: $31.00 

 

Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Cooke, Roger

Hardcover. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1st Edition, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. With 21 figures. foxing to edges, and preliminary and back pages. Yellow cover boards with two color decoration. Binding tight. Spine straight. Fading to spine, light spotting to covers. A study of mathematics in the nineteenth century, principally, Kovalevskaya.

Record # 32900


Price: $50.00 

 

Maxim Litvinoff


Pope, Arthur Upham

Hardcover. NY, L.B. Fischer, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front fly leaf gone. Slight slant to spine

Record # 57735


Price: $18.00 

 

Maximova & Vasiliev at the Bolshoi


Lazzarini, Roberta, Galina Ulanova (Introduction)

Hardcover. London, UK, Dance Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in bright purple cloth, gilt title on spine. Cover boards very good. Pages clean and unmarked, binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. A look at the royal couple of Russian ballet and their immense body of work.

Record # 31937


Price: $50.00 

Memoirs of a RevolutionistKropotkin, Peter Alekseevich; Rodgers, James Allen (editor)

Memoirs of a Revolutionist


Kropotkin, Peter Alekseevich; Rodgers, James Allen (editor)

Softcover. London, The Cresset Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Paperback. Some tanning to covers and foxing to pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468262


Price: $10.00 

 

Memoirs of a Soviet Ambassador: The War: 1939-43


Maisky, Ivan

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 408 pages. A little spotting and edge wear along dust jacket spine. Foxing on top edge. Minor tanning on rear flyleaf where newspaper clipping lay. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856227


Price: $19.00 

 

Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, Esq: A Military Officer in the services of Prussia, Russia and Great Britain


Bruce, Peter Henry

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 527 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine faded. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering/black label on spine. Gutter cracked on title page, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 2233401


Price: $63.00 

 

Moon Man, The: A Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay


Webster, E.M.

Hardcover. Berkely, Univeristy of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading to dj spine (see image), very good condition. Binding tight, spine straight. Red endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape.

Record # 32202


Price: $23.00 

 

More Changes More Chances


Nevinson, Henry W.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The second English volume in Nevinson's autobiography. He was a journalist who traveled world-wide. Much in here about Russia, Africa & the Cocoa Islands, India & the coming of WW I. Black & white illust. 127 pages.

Record # 66333


Price: $38.00 

 

Nicholas and Alexander: The Family Albums


of Greece, Prince Michael/Andrei Maylunas & Francesco Venturi

Hardcover. London, UK, Tauris Parke Books, First Thus, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover, coffee-table sized. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Full pages black & white photographs throughout. Prince Michael of Greece, the author and biographer, is the grandson of Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, thereby given access to the family photograph albums featured throughout. Clean, bright, unmarked pages. Dust jacket with light tone to top edge, and light wear. A very nice copy.

Record # 751459


Price: $50.00 

 

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia


Hyland, Angus (editor)

hardcover. London, Booth-Clibborn Editions, reprinted, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 408 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color/black and white pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469466


Price: $31.00 

 

Nicholas and Alexandra


Massie, Robert K.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 4th, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 584 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An intimate account of the last of the Romanovs and the fall of Imperial Russia. Slight cocking to spine. Mild fading and rubbing to dust jacket, which is encased in a plastic sleeve. Red toning to top text block edge. Mid age toning to fore edge exterior text block. Unmarked. A clean copy.

Record # 4450003


Price: $19.00 

 

Nicholas I - Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias


Lincoln, W. Bruce

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press/Midland, 2nd, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages. Softcover. Some light underlining in pen. Cover shows standard wear.

Record # 610690


Price: $13.00 

Nicholas II: Last of the TsarsFerro, Marc

Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars


Ferro, Marc

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, b&w photos. Light wear,rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453297


Price: $12.00 

Nicholas II: Last of the TsarsFerro, Marc

Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars


Ferro, Marc

Softcover. Oxford University Press, USA, 1st Am, January 15, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453358


Price: $12.00 

Nicholas II: The Interrupted TransitionD'Encausse, Helene Carrere

Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition


D'Encausse, Helene Carrere

Hardcover. New York, Holmes & Meier Pub, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459493


Price: $15.00 

 

Nicolas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias


Lincoln, W. Bruce

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages, paperback. Important and scholarly contribution to Russian history. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952113


Price: $13.00 

 

Nightingale Fever - Russian Poets in Revolution


Hingley, Ronald

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white frontis.

Record # 101185


Price: $16.00 

 

Nikolai Strakhov: philosopher, man of letters, social critic


Gersetin, Linda

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1st ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Yellow cloth boards. Foxing to top edge. Pictorial dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855687


Price: $15.00 

 

Nureyev: His Life


Solway, Diane

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 625 pages, with photographs. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456269


Price: $15.00 

Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855Whittaker, Cynthia

Origins of Modern Russian Education, The : An Intellectual Biography of Count Sergei Uvarov, 1786-1855


Whittaker, Cynthia

Hardcover. DeKalb, Ill., Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Blue cloth. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453501


Price: $30.00 

 

Out of the Past


Tolstoy, Alexandra

New York , Columbia University Press, 2nd, 1981 (original 1934), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 175898


Price: $15.00 

 

Pancho Villa and John Reed - Two Faces of Romantic Revolution


Tuck, Jim

Hardcover. Tucson, University of Arizona, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illust. 252 pgs. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 107166


Price: $18.00 

 

Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography


Ruge, Gerd

Hardcover. New York , McGraw Hill Book Company, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810139


Price: $15.00 

 

Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist


Rogers (EDITOR), James Allen

Softcover. New York, Doubleday/Anchor Book, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Softcover with light soil to paper wrappers. Light wear to corners and block. Wrappers faded.

Record # 2233439


Price: $15.00 

 

Pisemsky: A Provincial Realist


Moser, Charles A.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st, March 12, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Minor shelf wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453406


Price: $15.00 

 

Poems of Michael Lermontoff


Lermontoff, Michael and E.N. Steinhart

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages, blue cloth covers with black lettering, gilt lettering on spine. Three poems translated from the Russian by Steinhart along with an introduction, notes, a short biography and a glossary. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 402532


Price: $30.00 

 

Princess in Paradise


Schmeckebier, Alexandra K.

Hardcover. Canaan NH, Phoenix, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations, 434 pgs. Ltd to 1500 copies.

Record # 105543


Price: $30.00 

 

Pushkin


Feinstein, Elaine

Hardcover. US, Ecco Press, 1st, 1999-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463085


Price: $10.00 

 

Pushkin


Troyat, Henri

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., Rep., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 655 pages. Dust jacket with crease, chips.

Record # 109063


Price: $20.00 

 

Quicksilver


Rambert, Dame marie

Hardcover. New York, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 231 pages, with black & white photographs. Light dust jacket edge wear and rub, price clipped, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 457711


Price: $13.00 

 

Raisa Orlova - Memoirs


Orlova, Raisa

New York, Random House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Black & white photography. Remainder line on bottom book edge. Remainder dot on top book edge.

Record # 207100


Price: $15.00 

 

Rasputin - The Saint Who Sinned


Moynahan, Brian

New York, Random House , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 303064


Price: $20.00 

Red Prince, The: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg ArchdukeSnyder, Timothy

Red Prince, The: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke


Snyder, Timothy

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sticker residue on front dust jacket flap. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Record # 471395


Price: $15.00 

Romanovs, TheCowles, Virginia

Romanovs, The


Cowles, Virginia

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Fraying to top edge. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470072


Price: $13.00 

Russia in the Age of Peter the GreatHughes, Lindsey

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great


Hughes, Lindsey

Softcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 602 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge-/shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453260


Price: $18.00 

 

Russia Through Women's Eyes - Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia


Clyman, Toby W./Judith Vowles

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 393 pages. dust jacket with fading to spine, and edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610670


Price: $13.00 

 

Sakharov - A Biography


Lourie, Richard

Paperback. Waltham, MA, Univ. Press of New England, Uncorr. Proof Wraps, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Paperback proof.

Record # 69245


Price: $18.00 

 

Sergei Prokofiev - A Biography


Robinson, Harlow

NY, Viking, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Some wear, short tears to bottom of front dust jacket panel otherwise VG/VG

Record # 61752


Price: $25.00 

 

Service, The - The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen


Gehlen, Reinhard

Hardcover. NY, World, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Author was Hitler's head of military espionage in Russia. Black & white illust. 386 pages. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 58652


Price: $12.00 

 

Siberian Dream


Pantaeva, Irina

NY, Avon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, From poverty in Siberia to high fashion model in New York. A memoir.

Record # 69516


Price: $15.00 

 

Siberian Garrison


Markovits, Rodion

Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, rep, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering and black stamped decoration on red covers. Mild soil to covers, pages clean and tight internally. Lightly bowed covers.

Record # 2233529


Price: $38.00 

 

Sketches From My Life


Sats, Natalia

Hardcover. Moscow, Raduga Publishers, 1st English, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 435 pages, with photographs, translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854137


Price: $20.00 

 

Sonya - The Life of Countess Tolstoy


Edwards, Anne

Hardcover. Ny, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 512 pgs. remainder stamp bottom edge.

Record # 105032


Price: $20.00 

 

Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary


Brown, Archie (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Library Reference, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 489 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453281


Price: $15.00 

 

Spy: Twenty years of secret service - Memoirs of Gordon Lonsdale


Lonsdale, Gordon

Hardcover. London, Neville Spearman, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Autobiography of the Russian Secret Agent, sentenced in England 1961 for espionage, released to Soviet authorities in 1964. Previous owner's bookplate, initials on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 412091


Price: $19.00 

Stalin's ChildrenMatthews, Owen

Stalin's Children


Matthews, Owen

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Small tear and some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 320 pages. Record # 467504

Record # 467504


Price: $11.00 

 

Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB'S Most Daring Operative: The True Life of Dmitri Bystroletov


Draitser, Emil

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A venture into the inner workings of the Soviet spy network in Europe and America in the 1930's, and the life story of one it's finest operatives. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Mild staining to text block edges. Small stain to front flyleaf as well. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951722


Price: $15.00 

 

Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order


Davies, Sarah and James Harris

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages, hardcover. Drawing on recently declassified material from Stalin's personal archives, comes this analysis on the way Stalin interpreted and envisioned his world. Mild rubbing to boards. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951642


Price: $29.00 

Stalin: And the Shaping of the Soviet UnionJonge, Alex De

Stalin: And the Shaping of the Soviet Union


Jonge, Alex De

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230079


Price: $19.00 

 

Stalin: Man and Ruler [ILLUSTRATED]


McNeal, Robert H.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Nice, clean copy.

Record # 453338


Price: $12.00 

 

Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations


Laqueur, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453339


Price: $12.00 

 

STALIN: THE HISTORY OF A DICTATOR


Hyde, H. Montgomery

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 679 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. B&w photographs throughout. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 467947


Price: $13.00 

 

Stankevich and his Moscow Circle 1830-1840


Brown, Edward J.

Hardcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st , 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 149 pages. Foxing along top edge. Price cut on inside flap of dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855404


Price: $15.00 

 

Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents


Stravinsky, Vera, Robert Craft

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 688 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Boards bound in blue fabric. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly age yellowed. Very clean copy, excellent condition.

Record # 5560117


Price: $23.00 

 

Taxi From Hell - Confessions of a Russian Hack


Lobas, Vladimir

NY, Soho, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages, translated from Russian by Tamara Clenny.

Record # 67779


Price: $15.00 

Through the burning steppe: a wartime memoirKozhina, Elena Fedorovna

Through the burning steppe: a wartime memoir


Kozhina, Elena Fedorovna

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468991


Price: $10.00 

 

Tolstoy: A Russian Life


Bartlett

Hardcover. London, Profile Books, 1st, November 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 544 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear and wrinkling to rear cover of dust jacket. Dog-ear to page 385, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457855


Price: $44.00 

Trotsky: The Eternal RevolutionaryVolkogonov, Dmitri

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary


Volkogonov, Dmitri

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 524 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453089


Price: $20.00 

 

Tsar of Freedom: The Life and Reign of Alexander II


Graham, Stephen

Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket has price clipped out. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855474


Price: $25.00 

 

Tsvetaeva


Schweitzer, Viktoria

Softcover. New York, Noonday Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages, bright, clean paperback edition.

Record # 405016


Price: $10.00 

 

Village, The: Russian Impressions


Poole, Ernest

Hardcover. New York, Macmilllian Company, 1st thus, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 234 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy fraying and wear to cover edges. Internal foxing throughout. Light soil. Embossed stamping on front fly leaf bottom. Gutter cracked throughout.

Record # 2233438


Price: $25.00 

Vladimir the Russian VikingVolkoff, Vladimir

Vladimir the Russian Viking


Volkoff, Vladimir

Softcover. Woodstock, NY, Overlook press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. B&W frontispiece and B&W illustrations throughout. Old price sticker on back cover. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855511


Price: $10.00 

Yeltsin: A Revolutionary LifeAron, Leon

Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life


Aron, Leon

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 934 pages. B&w photos. Some edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket, slight wrinkle to upper edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453348


Price: $12.00 

 

Young Stalin


Montefiore, Simon Sebag

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket top edge. Slight soiling to dust jacket, pencil mark on rear wrapper. Small crease to front flyleaf. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951146


Price: $24.00 

Young StalinMontefiore, Simon Sebag

Young Stalin


Montefiore, Simon Sebag

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, three small ink-marks on index page. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453271


Price: $20.00 

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