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Published 1986, light age tanning. Pamphlet-style book in excellent condition.

This book is primarily a photo/travel journal of Latvia. The few pages of text are in Slav/Latvian and I cannot translate it.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962 1st ed. 240pp. black cloth 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [top edge is smudged and age darkened; else a very nice clean and crisp copy; dj = p-c; else nrVG] A memoir by an emigre from the Bolshevik Revolution.

U.S.A: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. A journey into the heart of the Russian countryside to meet the people who have remained hidden to the rest of the world for most of a century. Clean and unmarked black half cloth binding with gilt titles, gray paper-wrapped boards. Upper edge of front panel is sunned, otherwise no other wear. Former owner name on endpaper, otherwise internals are as new. Tight, solid and square volume. The author revisited Russia between 1987-1993 several times, visiting many different people, He set out to discover why a nation blessed with an eleven-time-zone stretch of fertile land still suffers from shortages and rationing. "Travels with a Hungry Bear" chronicles the struggle of the Russian nation to feed itself. 320 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 1996, Houghton Mifflin, USA

South Royalton, VT, U.S.A.: Steerforth Press, 1997. 376pp including index Photos Map endpapers Protective mylar cover over dust jacket. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New.

Dobbs Ferry, New York: Sheridan House Inc, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. The story of a pioneering voyage in 1987 on board the Canna, the first sailing yacht from Britain and Ireland to visit Leningrad since the Russian Revolution. Two eight pages of illustration plates, one in full colour and one in black & white, plus maps, and drawings separating the three sections in the book: East to Leningrad; The Soviet Union; and Poland and the Return. Glossary and Diagram of the Canna included. 245 pages plus Bibliography and Index. Sheridan House Publishers, Dobbs Ferry, NY 1989.

Andre Deutsch, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. jacket is rubbed, edge worn and torn. tanning. light marks. small price notation. some edge wear on boards. fairly good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1931. 297pp. brown cloth sm 8vo: Good/no dj [bookplate; some age browning & light shelfwear; else a clean, complete & tight copy] O'Flaherty (1896-1984), a young founder of the Irish Communist Party, was a member of the later generation of Irish renaissance writers. By his own admission he set out for Moscow on April 23, 1930, to collect material for a book on Bolshevism "to join the great horde of scoundrels, duffers and liars who have been flooding the book markets of the world for the last ten years with books about the Bolsheviks."

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Inc, 1989. A very good copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book dealing with the author's travels in the USSR in 1986, and his many conversations with the people he met there (the ''Ordinary Russians'' of the title). He travelled in Russia itself, and in what is now Ukraine, Estonia and Georgia. 253pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Moscow:: Progress Publ.. VG, unmarked, color & B-W illus., 4 1/2" x 7" Hardback; owner's. 1972. ISBN: name; DJ-fair; 1" taped tear. 185 pp.. Catalogs: SOVIET UNION. Keywords: SOVIET UNION, SAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA, ISLAM MOSLEM.

Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers , 1839. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 4to, 138 pages, some foxing. modern binding in 3/4 morocco , light tidal line on top margin. " ... the editors of the present edition ( which is carefully reprinted from the first 4to edition of 1810 ) have found it necessary, in point of justice, to neutralise some of the authors statements by means of foot-notes of an opposite character and more consonant with what was some years ago, and now is, the condition of the Russians. They have also supplied a few deficiencies and additional statements in reference to places of importance visited by the author, so as to give the work much of the interest of a fresh production ... an account has been given of Poland, Siberia, and other districts which were not visited by him in the course of his travels - Prefatory Memoir."

Praha: Nakladatele Kvasnicka a Hampl, 1929. First edition. Good. 4to, 36 pages, plus plates for 615 photographs, in its original rehinged pictorial cloth portfolio, light wear to some plates. Note: will require higher shipping fee due to weight. Introduction and legends on plates also in English, French, and German. The 615 photos of interiors, exteriors, and rrelated landscapes, are primarily printed three to a leaf, or two, but with a dozen or more singles.

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1894. 320pp. illus. w/61 gravures. original burgundy cloth 12mo stamped in gold w/gilt & other blind-stamped decorations & edges in red: near Fine [some light interior foxing; else nrF] A bright, handsome copy that describes in the original French Charles Rabot's (1856-1944) adventurous travels in Siberia.

Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Quarto, pp. [8], 280, [8], with 7 engraved maps and plates (4 folding). Contemporary calf boards with new, complementary calf spine in six compartments. Some edgewear to boards; minor foxing to endpapers; text and plates exceptionally clean and bright. Bookplate of Sir Joseph Copley on front pastedown. An abridged translation of the Russian edition of 1755, which offered "The first reliable descriptions of Kamchatka, based on the observations of the author and his companions during the Russian expedition to the far north, 1734-43, a part of Bering's Great Northern Expedition" (Arctic Bib. 9264, 9265). It describes the customs, morals, religion, and languages of the inhabitants of the Kamchatkan peninsula. In addition, the the author had access to the notes made by pioneering German botanist George Steller during his travels to North America with Bering's expedition, and the second part of the narrative includes much on… Read More