Search Results: Books in Russian from Berthoff Books

Northwestern University Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. POEMS IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 121 pages, with notes on poems and chronology of Ratushkinskaya's life before emigration (both in English). Foreword by Brent, Translator's Introduction by Avins. Poems printed in Russian verso, facing English poetical translations recto. Trade paperback, foxing to wraps, edges and end papers. Little shelf wear, binding tight, pages unmarked.

ZAO Kapital, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. BILINGUAL PUBLICATION RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. 80 pages. Special issue of periodical, dedicated to projects for a Bering Strait tunnel, issued in connection with international conference held in Moscow, April 2007. Large-format (21.5 x 29.5 cm) journal, printed on glossy stock with color illustrations, light shelf wear and creasing to corners, few spots of soil to covers.

Kharvest, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 735 pages, with index, chronology and glossary of terms. B&w and color (hue shifted slightly toward red end of the spectrum) reproductions throughout the copious text. Covers historical period 988 (Christianization of Rus) to 2000. Edition published in Minsk, Belarus, of this "History of Russian Art: a Short Guide for Students" (translation of title; book is in Russian only). 8vo (6 x 8-3/4"; ~15 x 22 cm), 6.35 cm (2-1/2") thick, glossy pictorial boards, remnant of price sticker on back board, small scratch to back board at top near spine, barely perceptible wear to fore-edge. No markings inside or out. Heavy book, overseas orders may incur shipping surcharge.

Izdatel'stvo 'Detskaia literatura', 1968. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 223 pages. Cover 5-1/4" x 8-1/8", hardbound brown with orange drawing and black lettering on cover, orange lettering on spine, edgeworn, corners bumped, color slightly eroded on back cover. Soviet bookstore price stamp on rfep, edges slightly age-tanned, four pages accidentally creased at top corner. Binding intact, text unmarked. Printed in a run of 100,000 copies, this edition was intended for schoolchildren in "non-Russian schools" and has the stressed syllable marked in multi-syllabic words. Introduction by V. Lanina. Included are the stories "Ded Arkhip i Lion'ka", "Chelkash", "Starukha Izergil'", "Pesnia o Sokole", "Pesnia o Burevestnike", "Mat'" (abridged), "Pepe", and "Kak ia uchilsia", as well as letters by Gorky to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Shalyapin (Chaliapin) and others.… Read More

ROSSPEN, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 319 pages, with index. Survey by Russian historian and ethnographer Yuri Kobishchanov of the institution of a ruler's tour of the population (sometimes called a "royal tour") for tax-collection, as it is documented in ancient Eurasian societies, as well as medieval and pre-20th century modern Eastern and Western Europe, and Africa. Trade paperback, light shelf wear to back bottom corner and heel, light smudges to back wrap, pages and edges lightly age-toned. Signed by the author on title page, no markings to text.

Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1955. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 438 pages. Cover 5-1/4" x 8-3/16", hardbound blue-gray w faded gold lettering, edgeworn, bumped corners. Text age-tanned, slight scratch to right edge of text block, binding still tight. Former owner's name on ffep, scribbling on fep, Soviet price marks on rep; text unmarked. Editor: V. Morozova, introduction (vstupitel'naia stat'ia) and notes by G.A. Bialyi. A Soviet mass edition (original print run - 300,000) of the 19th-century writer Garshin.

Andreevskii flag, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN RUSSIAN. 126 pages. The Russian filmmaker's book Velikaya kriminalnaya revolyutsiya [The Great Criminal Revolution, but this edition is in Russian only], published in conjunction with his documentary of the same title, on the upheaval in the Russian economy and society under the first two years of "shock therapy" and privatization. Written during the events of October 1993 when Russia's parliament was abolished and violently suppressed, it interweaves the author's view of the unfolding crisis. Mass-market paperback, slight rubbing and wear to wraps from being stored and moved around as one of a packet of several copies; unread copy.