Kniga o kazakakh: materialy po istorii kazach'ei drevnosti [The book about Cossacks: materials on the history of Cossack early history], vols. 1-6 (complete) by Gubarev, G. V

Paris: Izdatel'stvo redaktsii gazety "Kazak", 1957-1959. Octavos (23.5 × 16 cm). Original printed wrappers; 330 pp. (continuous pagination). Illustrated. Good to very good. A detailed illustrated history of the Cossack communities from antiquity until the Middle Ages and beyond written by Don Cossack and a historian of Cossack antiquity, Georgii Vital'evich Gubarev (1884-1994). Gubarev took part in WWI and later fought with the White army in the Russian Civil War. In 1920, after the White defeat, Gubarev was forced to emigrate first to Poland and later the United States. A champion of Cossack national revival, in addition to this monograph, he published widely in émigré press writing about the history of Cossacks. He also compiled a "Cossack dictionary-directory" published in five volumes in the US from 1966 to 1970. Savine 04358. Listed by Andrei Savine as being "very rare.".