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Camp Custer, Battle Creek, MI: T.F Mock, 1918. Original panoramic photograph, 6 1/2" x 42 1/4", unframed, rolled. Near Fine, faint creases near ends, scant light soiling rear of photo. Stamped in blue ink rear -"Passed by Intelligence Section Office, Chief of Staff". Written in ink rear -" 355th Battalion Q.M.C., Camp Custer, Mich. T.F. Mock Sept. 29, 1918". Unclear whether this is in Mock's handwriting. Theodore F. Mock was listed as the Camp Custer Photographer in David V. Tinder's "Directory of Early Michigan Photographers" published by Clements Library, 2013. Camp Custer, at Battle Creek, Michigan, had over 100,000 US Army troops pass through its doors between 1917-1919. Sept. 29th, 1918 was the day in 1918, after a 56-hour-long bombardment, Allied forces breached the so-called Hindenburg Line, the last line of German defenses on the Western Front during World War I. SCARCE photograph of Negro troops during World War I, with many interesting poses by…
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Memory About Service, Friendship and You. Red Banner Pacific Ocean Fleet, Soviet Navy Photo Album ( Black Sea,) with 15 SIGNED Pen and Ink Tracings of Warships
by Unknown Soviet Navy Sailor
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Soviet Union , 1979. Dated 1979-1982, a unique and RARE Soviet sailor's photo album, 13 1/2" w x 9" h, in string-tied brown velvet over heavy cardboard. Containing 40 pp. of thick cardboard, with 140 black and white and 4 color photographs pasted in, and 4 B & W photos and 1 negative laid in. The album rendered unique and amazing by the addition of 15 exquisitely detailed SIGNED pen and ink tracings of warships, 11 modern Soviet Navy warships and 4 tall ships, on rice paper, with each tracing interspersed between the photography pages. Very Good, small tears to the edges of some of the rice paper sheets. RARE Soviet Navy photographs from the height of the Cold War taken by an incredibly talented sailor/ artist. . Photograph Album. Very Good. 13 1/2" w x 9" h.
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355th Battalion Q.M.C., Camp Custer, Mich. (Original Panoramic Photograph)
by Mock, T.(heodore) F.
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Base Hospital, Camp Custer (Original Panoramic Photograph)
by Mock, T.(heodore) F.
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Camp Custer, Battle Creek, MI: Mock, T.(heodore) F., 1919. Original panoramic photograph, 6 1/2" x 72", unframed, rolled. Near Fine, small corner crease, pencilled indications on rear denoting "officers quarters" and "administrative". The photograph is unsigned and untitled, but is same view as the one located in the Library of Congress attributed to Mock, EXCEPT this photograph is nearly 30" longer than the one in the LOC's collection ! Theodore F. Mock was listed as the Camp Custer Photographer in David V. Tinder's "Directory of Early Michigan Photographers" published by Clements Library, 2013. Camp Custer, at Battle Creek, Michigan, had over 100,000 US Army troops pass through its doors between 1917-1919. A magnificent panoramic photograph spanning 6 feet, and SCARCE. . First Printing. Photograph. Near Fine.
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"Earth Orbiter" Original 8 x 10 B&W Publicity Photograph
by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1974. "For Release ( No Date). Photo No. 62-MAS-168". Near Fine, faint 1" surface crease. 8" x 10" black and white , NASA publication information printed in blue ink verso. "Astronaut John Glenn was photographed in space by an automatic sequence action picture camera as he became the first American to orbit the earth on Feb. 20, 1962. His Mercury spacecraft - Friendship 7- made three orbits in its 4 hours 55 minute flight. Glenn was in a state of weightlessness traveling at 17,500 mph as this picture was taken." . First Edition. Photograph. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8" x 10".
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View from Rabbit Ears Pass Road Colorado ( Hand Colored Photograph )
by Alexander
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Colorado: The Artist, 1920. No Date, circa 1920s. 5" by 7" hand colored photograph in original wood frame, signed Alexander at bottom left corner. Verso states "View from Rabbit Ears pass Road Colorado. To Mr. & Mrs. W.P. Allen from Mr. & Mrs. Hallas". The photograph and frame are Fine. . Photograph. Fine. 5" x 7".
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
by Nijinsky, Romola
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Negotiating with the Soviets
by Raymond F. Smith
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Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and Institute with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, September 1989. Trade paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Slight reading wear to lower corners, otherwise Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 148 pages.
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SOVIET POLITICAL THOUGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY
by Jaworskyj, Michael (Editor)
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Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & spine, bumping to spine ends, scuffing to rear cover else still bright, intact and whole.
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Dmitry: Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia, 1605-1606
by Barbour, Philip L
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .
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Apples and Pears in Orchards of Michurin Experimenters
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Moscow, 1951. COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 10 1/4 inches tall volume with original navy flexible cloth covered boards, cover with blindstamped image of apple, and gilt title; gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers with sepia orchard scene. 130 black & white figures throughout text, and 32 colored plates of apples and pears. Corners and spine ends rubbed, very good. IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Michurin was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins, cultivating methods in connection with the natural course of ontogenesis, directing the process of predominance, evaluation and selection of seedlings, and acceleration of the process of…
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COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS. Five Hundred New Varieties of Apples and Pears Developed in the USSR
by Smirnov, V.F
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Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1966. COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS OF APPLES AND PEARS DEVELOPED IN THE USSR DURING THE KRUSCHEV AND BREZHNEV ADMINISTRATIONS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed gilt images of apple and pear and gilt title to cover and spine; 255 pages with 64 colored plates, each picturing 2 to 4 varieties. Corners bumped, marginal browning to endpapers, no dust jacket; very good. Text in Russian. From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow Society of Nature Experimenters.
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Michael Strogoff: The Courier Of The Czar (PHOTOPLAY EDITION)
by Jules Verne
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Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.
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Russian Realities: Being Impressions Gathered During Some Recent Journeys in Russia
by Hubback, John
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London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Good in Fair dust jacket; Front boards and spine waterstained, boards . worn, owner name on front free endpaper, pages toned, jacket toned and . tattered and split in two.. 1915. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Green topstain. xv, 271pp. 9.5 x 13 inch folding map of Russia at rear. 16 photo reproductions. The author relates his travels through European regions of Russia in the years just before the Revolution, based on eleven short trips between 1910-1915. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Lenin for Beginners (Pantheon Documentary Comic Books)
by A&Z; Richard Appignanesi; Oscar Zárate
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New York: Pantheon, March 1979. Trade Paperback. First Revised American Edition (stated) / first printing (no additional printings listed). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, very tight, and uncreased. Corners sharp. Very slight edge wear is the only thing keeping this from being As New. Its hard to imagine a 40+ year-old book in better condition than this. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 172 pages. Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia.
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The Intimate Diary of a Russian Woman: My Search for Meaning in the Midst of My Country's Upheaval
by Romine, Elena
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New York, William Morrow & Co, 1992, hardcover, 236 pp, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the half-title page, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight. tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge bumps, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. A young woman writes candidly of a choice she feels she must make, between her country's uncertain future, and the promise of life in the West. Translation by Antonina W. Bouis. ISBN 9780688104160
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