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Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova…
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Arkhipelag Gulag 1918-1956 2 Vol Set
by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
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Paris, France: YMCA Press, 1973. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volume set in soft pictorial covers. Vol 1 (Part I-II), covers lt worn & discolored, no reading crease, lt foxing to first & last few pages & closed page edges, owner stamp inside front cover. Vol 2 (Part III-IV), covers worn, discolored, reading creases on spine, lt soil to outside page edges, owner stamp inside front cover; book slightly canted.Both vol clean inside, in firm bindings. All Russian text. 5/09 for
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- Date Published 1973
- Keywords SOVIET UNION GULAG PRISON LABOR POLITICAL DISSIDENT
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / UBIT' PERESMESHNIKA
by Lee, Harper; Nora Gal' & Raisa Oblonskaya (translators)
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V lesakh / razskazano Andreem Pecherskim. 4 volumes bound in 2.
by Pechersky, Andrey - pseudonym for - Mel'nikov, Pavel Ivanovic
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Mockba - Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip, 1875 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4 volumes bound in 2. Vol 1 - [vi], 400, ii; Vol 2 - [iv], 382; Vol 3 - [iv], 363, [iii]; Vol 4 - [iv], 374 pages. Errata only present in vols 1 and 3, so missing those from vols 2 and 4. Original cloth covered boards with what appear to be later leather spines. The leather has some wear to the edges. Vol 1 pages 1-2 are torn and damaged, but without loss, apparently glued back in. Vol 3 smaller tear to the inner margin, just into the text, reinforced along the rear. Pages 373/4 in vol 4 have tears along the edges and there is reinforcing to the inner margins of serval pages. Some tears to other page edges also. Some spotting and staining throughout. Apologies for any mistranscription from the Russian..
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ODIN DEN' IVANA DENISOVICHA (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. First Edition in book form) - Roman Gazeta Number 1 (277) 1963.
by Alexandr / Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Good. This volume was printed on poor quality paper and rarely survives. Splitting to edge of fragile paper spine. Usual browning/foxing. 46 p. Text in Russian. With author's portrait. This is the second published appearance (and first in book form) of Solzhenitsyn's hugely controversial first book, originally published in the magazine Novy Mir two months earlier. By this time, Solzhenitsyn's ability to publish in his homeland was in jeopardy. Though a number of minor pieces would appear in periodicals, this was the first and last major publication of his work during the Soviet regime.
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Sketches about the Russian intelligentsia
by A. N. Potresov [Starover]
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The book from Russian Imperial Library of Nicoulaus II. The proposed articles were written at different times and on different occasions, but their protagonist invariably remained that motley complex of stratifications of our Russian public, which is known under the general name - the intelligentsia: moderate and revolutionary; fussing about cheese artels and dreaming of world reorganization; following the representatives of the propertied society - in the construction of life, and composing its own - party construction, as an antithesis to this construction; the intelligentsia, gravitating towards the peasantry, and the intelligentsia, with the proletariat at the center of their political plans and socialist prospects.
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Correspondence of Nicolai and Alexandra Romanov vol. 1-5 [Perepiska Nikilaia i Aleksandry Romanovyh]
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / UBIT' PERESMESHNIKA
by Lee, Harper; Nora Gal' & Raisa Oblonskaya (translators)
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Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova…
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V lesakh / razskazano Andreem Pecherskim. 4 volumes bound in 2.
by Pechersky, Andrey - pseudonym for - Mel'nikov, Pavel Ivanovic
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Mockba - Moscow: V Universitetskoi tip, 1875 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 4 volumes bound in 2. Vol 1 - [vi], 400, ii; Vol 2 - [iv], 382; Vol 3 - [iv], 363, [iii]; Vol 4 - [iv], 374 pages. Errata only present in vols 1 and 3, so missing those from vols 2 and 4. Original cloth covered boards with what appear to be later leather spines. The leather has some wear to the edges. Vol 1 pages 1-2 are torn and damaged, but without loss, apparently glued back in. Vol 3 smaller tear to the inner margin, just into the text, reinforced along the rear. Pages 373/4 in vol 4 have tears along the edges and there is reinforcing to the inner margins of serval pages. Some tears to other page edges also. Some spotting and staining throughout. Apologies for any mistranscription from the Russian..
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ODIN DEN' IVANA DENISOVICHA (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. First Edition in book form) - Roman Gazeta Number 1 (277) 1963.
by Alexandr / Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Good. This volume was printed on poor quality paper and rarely survives. Splitting to edge of fragile paper spine. Usual browning/foxing. 46 p. Text in Russian. With author's portrait. This is the second published appearance (and first in book form) of Solzhenitsyn's hugely controversial first book, originally published in the magazine Novy Mir two months earlier. By this time, Solzhenitsyn's ability to publish in his homeland was in jeopardy. Though a number of minor pieces would appear in periodicals, this was the first and last major publication of his work during the Soviet regime.
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Sketches about the Russian intelligentsia
by A. N. Potresov [Starover]
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The book from Russian Imperial Library of Nicoulaus II. The proposed articles were written at different times and on different occasions, but their protagonist invariably remained that motley complex of stratifications of our Russian public, which is known under the general name - the intelligentsia: moderate and revolutionary; fussing about cheese artels and dreaming of world reorganization; following the representatives of the propertied society - in the construction of life, and composing its own - party construction, as an antithesis to this construction; the intelligentsia, gravitating towards the peasantry, and the intelligentsia, with the proletariat at the center of their political plans and socialist prospects.
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Correspondence of Nicolai and Alexandra Romanov vol. 1-5 [Perepiska Nikilaia i Aleksandry Romanovyh]
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Konets Sveta : The Doomsday Conspiracy in Russian
by Sheldon, Sidney
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Moscow, Russia: Unknown, 2000. Very Good condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 2000, Entirely in Cyrillic Russian. Light edgewear of glossy pictoral boards. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. UKRAINIA
by Tolstoi, Count Lyof N
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UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.
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The Other Side of Midnight in Russian
by Sheldon, Sidney
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- 9785170044955 / 517004495x
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Moscow, Russia: Unknown, 2000. 820(73) : Very Good condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 2000, Entirely in Cyrillic Russian. Light edgewear and the spine foot tips are chipped. Binding slightly cocked. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH
by Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First U.S. edition with scarce wraparound band reading " 'DUTTON EDITION IS SUPERIOR'/ Harrison Salisbury - NEW YORK TIMES." This edition translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker whereas the edition published in the U.S. the same year by Frederick A. Praeger was translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley (the Praeger precedes this one per Fiene). Harrison E. Salisbury's January 22, 1963, review reads in part: "Of the two translations neither comes close to reproducing the rough vigor of the author's concentration camp slang .... However, Ralph Parker's version in the Dutton edition is superior to the patchwork thrown together by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley for Praeger. The most striking blooper of the Hayward-Hingley translation is to put in the mouths of the prisoners the phrase 'Comrade Warder.' The prisoners were forbidden ... to call the guards 'comrade' ...." 8vo light gray-green rough cloth boards stamped in green on front and spine; top edge stain…
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Russian Language: the Second Book of Russian Culture [Book is Written Russian/cyrillic]
by Poltoratzky, Marianna; Dostert, Leon E. [editor]; Mueller, Hugo [editor]
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Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Book is Good . There are about 22 pages with light pencil marks. 2 pages with single thin vertical crease near gutter - no effect to text - appears to be binding issue. Strong and sturdy binding that will lay flat but no damage. Very slight wear to cover corners and edges. Slight spine crimping. Few light areas of cover surface soiling. Faint store stock stamp on front fly leaf. Thin and light pen mark to front page ends - ends only. This scarce book is written in Russian except for the introduction which is in English. Marianna Poltorzatky was the Chairman for the Department of Russian at Vassar College. ; Modern Series in Foreign Languages; B&W illustrations and photographs; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 398 pages .
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Pis'ma. so vstupitel'nymi stat'iami i primechaniiami S. M. Solov'eva: Letters. with introductory articles and notes by SM Solovyov
by Aleksandr Blok
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Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. Pis'ma. so vstupitel'nymi stat'iami i primechaniiami S. M. Solov'eva .. [et al.] Leningrad, Kolos, 1925. 1st. 12mo, later hardcover red cloth, gilt title "Alexander Blok - Letters" to spine. Pp 228, 1p ads. In Cyrillic. Pages age toned. Front free end paper missing, small tear without loss on last page of publishers ads. Book plate of Ian Grey, russian historian and author on front pastedown. Scarce.
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ДУХОВНАЯ БРАНЬ (Dukhovnaya bran') / Spiritual battle
by Arseniou *
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Spiritual battle for the honor, holiness, glory and majesty of the Heavenly Queen. A 2nd ed. good- paperback (staple-bound), closed tears, soiling, stains FON stamp, & other defects on cov. & text as in image. *Abbot of the missionary monastery of the Resurrection of the Lord, missionary of the Holy Synod.
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V.I. Surikov (Russian Edition)
by N. G Mashkovtsev
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- 9785210022639 / 5210022633
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Iskusstvo, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Very good condition. Russian edition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows slight shelf wear. Slight scuffing on the edges and corners of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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A Grammatical Study Of The Literary Form Of The Bulgarian Language ( )
by Bernshtein, S. B. (Editor)
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Moscow Academy Of Learning, Moscow, 1959; First Edition; 8vo, 437 pages; brown cloth; gilt titles. Scholarly study of the literary form of the Bulgarian language, with lengthy contributions by five specialists in the field. Edited by Samuil Borosovich Bernshtein. Text in Russian. Very Good Plus. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.
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Bibliography Of The Publications Of The Bulgarian Academy Of Sciences 1869-1953
by Sabeva, Emilia and Maria Stanceva
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Bulgarian Academy Of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1956; 8vo, 538 pages; gray cloth; blue titles. Monumental bibliographical listing of nearly 6800 works published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1869 to 1953, organized sequentially by publication number and year, with a complete alphabetical index to all works cited. Very Good, clean and bright, binding tight and square, corners sharp. A small rectangular portion in the blank margin at the upper right corner of the title page, approximately 3/8" high by 2" long, has been clipped out, not affecting text on either side. Text in Bulgarian. A rare reference.
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