Search Results: Russia from Craftsbury Antiquarian Books

Beirut: Khayats, 1965. Book. Illus. by Maps, Plans & profuse Illustrations. Near Fine. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "Khayats Oriental Reprint No. 15". The first edition was London, 1901 in 2 volumes. This is a facsimile reproduction. There is a large, folding map at the rear of volume one in a pocket. This remains a definitive study of Armenia at the end of the 19th Century, and is highly prized. The first edition is now selling for around $2500. in very good condition. SCARCE in this condition..

Durham: Duke Universtiy Press, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original red cloth with a bright silver title on the spine, and no wear. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has no tears. Inside, very clean and tight. No prior owner marks. The tensions between practical economic benefits and uncertain , unintended consequences for the environment. Still a big problem. .

Simsbury CT and Takoma Park, MD: Mandel Vilar Press & Dryad Press, 2021. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first edition in Englishof the 2011 Slovak edition. As new inside and out, with no prior owner marks. A brilliant novel of the 1968 Prague Spring, Czechoslovak resistance to USSR communist dominance. It was an important preview of East European revolts that ended the Cold War in 1989-1990. The same tensions are awakened by Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. .

London: John Murray, 1816. Book. Illus. by 18 Etched or Aquatint Plates. Near Fine. 3/4 Leather. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Young author James was a student of Christ Church, Oxford when it took this trip. It is studiously observant, but still a good read. A majority of the plates are of Russia. The travel reference, Abbey Travel 16, states that the plates in most copies were uncolored, as they are in this copy. Pages xii, 527. Tan morocco with sympathetic, handmarbled boards in tan/brown/terra cotta/mustard. I would estimate this rebinding to be 40 or 50 years old, with gilt lines flanking raised bands on the spine, and a bright red title label with gilt letters. Inside, some minor foxing and stains, and offsetting from the plates as is unfortunately usual. An handsome copy, image available on request. Scarce in the first edition, with later 1817 and 1819 2 volume editions in smaller format (8 vo) and fewer illustrations..

Odysseus Books, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An impeccable copy, as new inside and out, dust jacket NOT price clipped, no prior owner marks. Very readable essays oincluding to Moscow, Prague, Serbia, Petra in Jordan, South Africa, Afghanistan and South Korea. But more, including a chapter on American newspapers. A journalist and then banker, who now lives in Switzerland. l.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Book. Illus. by drawings, photos and small maps. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original black cloth with no stains or edge wear. Inside, as new, with no prior owner marks. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has no tears or rubs. The author is an esteemed Russian scholar, and this is the first work of his translated into English. .

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Book. Illus. by Folding Map with Route in Red, 4 Handcolored Lithographs, 8 Text illustrations. Fine. Full-Leather. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "By Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow & St. Peterburgh." This is a splendid new binding,. in speckled tan calf with raised bands, fresh gilt titles on dark brown labels, and hand marbled endpapers. Mild foxing inside with no prior owner marks. George Keppel (1799-1891) wrote this as a young man, later becoming Earl of Albemarle. Wikipedia notes he is the great great grandfather of the current Queen Consort, Camilla. Pages 338 and 351 .

NY: Harper & Bros, 1908. Book. Illus. by 26 Pages Sepia, Old Photos. Very Good. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. An old, photographic travel book, more than half in Norway and the remainder in Russia. Delightful old photos. Slight edgewear, but clean and tight inside. Decorated lime cloth, with a man & a multitude of suitcases running for a steamer on a mountainous fjord. Some wear at the spine ends and corners. .

New York: Riverhead, 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A wondrous farce, the immigrant experience in the U.S. A crease in the lower corner of the front cover. Clean and tight inside with no prior owner marks. .

Published just : Belhaven Press, with Scott Polar Research Institute, 1991. Book. Illus. by photos, drawings, graphs and maps. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Published just as the Soviet Union was disbanding, but a most pertinent book if you substitute the word Russian for "Soviet" in the title. Putin wants to compete an a new Cold War, and that will include the Arctic. A fine copy with no prior owner marks. Inside , as new. Dustjacket has no rubs or tears. Contributors from Russia, Canada, the U.S., Norway and UK. .

Stanford, Cal: Stanford Univ Press, 1968. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine , unread copy of the 1968 reissue of the 1954 first edition. Early Russian communism, influence exerted primarily through the Comintern, and they were ugly times for China. Thorough, but there may be a bit more known now about the most clandestine Russian activities. .

London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Book. Illus. by pertinent northern maps. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Again pertinent, as Putin has reopened the Cold War. A military consideration of the Russian naval threat in and near the Arctic. Original black cloth with a bright gilt title on the spine and no edge wear. No flaws to the dust jacket. As new inside, with no prior owner marks. SCARCE, none on the internet at this writing..

New York : Simon , 2023. Book. Illus. by endpaper maps of the Cold War. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. There are plenty of spy books out there, but this is the best Cold war history of intelligence that I have seen Successes and failures, counter intelligence, collection by various means, and covert action, all covered with fine sources and careful judgements. And from the Russian perspective as well as that of the American- British side. Original red cloth with no edgewear. The dust jacket has no blemishes, and is NOT price clipped. .

New York: Metropolitan, and Henry Hot, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First U.S.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vladimir Putin is very irritated and is still trying to revise the demise of the "mighty" USSR. So this book remains important in understanding current Russian msnufactured crises. Black cloth unfaded spine with a bright gilt title, and red boards. No wear and no prior owner marks. Dust jacket is ffine and NOT price clipped. A probing, well-researched account by a fine British journalist. .

London: Richard Phillips, 1809. Book. Illus. by 41 plates, 3 folding including 28 hand-color aquatints (collated, complete). Very Good. 3/4 Leather. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 2 volumes in one, black morocco leather spine with raised bands and bright gilt title. Large leather corners with very slight wear at the bottom edge, and marbled boards and matching endpapers. An handsome binding, not the original but old. Inside very clean and tight with no browning or foxing. Tissue guards on some plates, and some offsetting from some plates. Sir R.K. Porter was a Scottish artist, author, diplomat and traveller, appointed historical painter to Tsar Alexander I of Russia in 1804. Complications with the courtship to Princess Mary von Schenbastoff necessitated his departure to Finland and Sweden in 1806. He was able to return in 1811 to marry his Princess Mary. Abbey travel 13. Some plates were moved, apparently in the rebinding, but all are present. .

New York: Penguin Press, 2015. Book. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The brilliant thinker, sadly now deceased, has consistently given us passionate and lucid history and current affairs of Europe and the U.S. An unblemished copy, no prior owner marks and dust jacket is NOT price clipped. .