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Mekhanicheskiy transport  : Tekhnicheskiy, illyustrirovannyi zhurnal, posvyashchennyi voprosam razvitiya i primeneniya mekhanicheskogo transporta vo vsekh stranakh mira (Mechanical Transport : Technical illustrated journal focusing on the development and employment of mechanical transport in all countries) [№ 2-oi. Avgust-Sentyabr' 1922 g. (No. 2. Aug.-Sept. 1922)] [The only Technical Journal in the Russian Language dealing with the problems of Mechanical Transport and Allied Trades]
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Very good condition; wrappers show some rubbing and color fading to the edges, repaired spine edges and chippings along upper edge of the wrappers; internally few occasional fingerprints. Quite seldom seen emirgee edition published in London by the Union of Russian Engineers and Technicians in Great Britain formed in the early 1920s. The journal was intended for distribution in Russia, Siberia,… Read more about this item
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Genii-izobretateli i lyudi truda : James Watt, Robert Fulton, George Stephenson, Humphry Davy, Kepler, Isaac Newton, Swammerdam, Latreille i David Livingstone : Chtenie dlya detei starshego vozrasta (Geniuses-Inventors and People of Work : James Watt, Robert Fulton, George Stephenson, Humphry Davy, Kepler, Isaac Newton, Swammerdam, Latreille and David Livingstone : Reading for Older Children)
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Very good condition; cover shows slight soiling, foxing, wear along the edges, wear and bumping at corners; internally occasional foxing and fingerprints, rust at staples, private collector's ex-libris stamp on the title and on the last page, bookstore stamp on the back endpaper. The book contains nine biographical articles about world famous academics, scientists and inventors: James Watt, after whom… Read more about this item
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Õnnelik kuningapoeg (The Happy Prince) [Collection of Tales]
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Õnnelik kuningapoeg (The Happy Prince) [Collection of Tales]

by Oscar Wilde; Translation: Minni Kurs-Olesk

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Used - Good
Edition
1st Estonian edition
Published
1913
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Print run 2,000 copies. Series: Eesti Kirjanduse Seltsi koolikirjanduse toimkond : Noorsoo kirjavara nr. 22 (Committee for School Literature of the Estonian Literary Society : Youth Adult Literature no. 22). Good condition: cover shows extensive foxing and rubbing, missing minor piece of the bottom outer corner of the front cover, soft book-length vertical creaser in the centre of front cover,… Read more about this item
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Watling pakub ainult väärtkaupa : romaan ühest kaubamajast (Watling Offers Only Worthwhile Products : A Novel About a Department Store)
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Watling pakub ainult väärtkaupa : romaan ühest kaubamajast (Watling Offers Only Worthwhile Products : A Novel About a Department Store)

by Horace Annesley Vachell; Translation: Gustav Pärn

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Used - Good
Edition
1st Estonian edition
Published
1935
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Series: Looduse kroonine romaan nr. 82. Good condition: front cover has mild edge fraying and multiple creases at corners, back cover shows some soiling, staining and rubbing; internally few occasional fingerprints. Estonian translation of the novel "Watling's for Worth: A Romance of an Emporium" by a prolific English writer Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955) first published in 1925. In the focus… Read more about this item
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Kā tikt vaļā no miljoniem? : romāns (How to Get Rid of Millions? : Novel)

Kā tikt vaļā no miljoniem? : romāns (How to Get Rid of Millions? : Novel)

by Edward Phillips Oppenheim; Translation: J. S. and A. G.

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Used - Near Fine
Edition
1st Latvian edition
Published
1937
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Near fine condition: cover shows slight bottom- and fore-edge fraying, multiple soft creases across cover corners; internally almost perfect with only few occasional foxing spots. The first Latvian edition of the Oppenheim's satirical novel "The Inevitable Millionaire's" firstly published in 1919 by A. L. Burt Company. In this funny satire, Oppenheim offers us an argument that has been used in… Read more about this item
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Pimedate maal ja teisi jutte (The Country of the Blind and Other Stories) [First Printed Estonian Translation of Legendary Wells's short stories]
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Pimedate maal ja teisi jutte (The Country of the Blind and Other Stories) [First Printed Estonian Translation of Legendary Wells's short stories]

by H. G. Wells; Translator: Ervin Roos

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Used - Very Good
Edition
1st Estonian edition
Published
1929
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Print run 2,000 copies. Series: Eesti Kirjanduse Seltsi koolikirjanduse-toimkond : Noorsoo kirjavara nr. 151 : noorsoo jutukirjastik (Committee for School Literature of the Estonian Literary Society : Youth Adult Literature no. 151: Youth Adult Storybook). Very good condition: cover shows some rubbing, foxing and slight edge-fraying, small creases across cover corners; internally few occasional fingerprints. "The Country of the Blind… Read more about this item
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Kurat : mäng kolmes vaatuses (The Devil : Play in Three Acts)
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Kurat : mäng kolmes vaatuses (The Devil : Play in Three Acts)

by Franz (Ferenc) Molnár; Translation from Hungarian: Charles (real name Richard Kullerkupp)

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Used - Fine
Edition
1st Estonian edition
Published
[1924]
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Fine condition: soft and small creases across cover corners; internally few occasional fingerprints. Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952) was a Hungarian-born playwright, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist who adopted American citizenship. He emigrated to the United States to escape persecution of Hungarian Jews during World War II. He became an international celebrity at a fairly young age, one of the very few… Read more about this item
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L'vy na vole i v plenu : Sbornik (Lions in Nature and in Captivity : Collection of Stories) [impressive example of Russian photomontage cover design]
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L'vy na vole i v plenu : Sbornik (Lions in Nature and in Captivity : Collection of Stories) [impressive example of Russian photomontage cover design]

by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, Kukert, Alfred Brehm, Karl Meyer

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Used - Good
Edition
1st Russian edition
Published
1928
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Print run 7,000 copies. Series: Novaya detskaya biblioteka, srednij i starshij vozrast (the New Children's Library, middle and high school age).Good condition; trace of moisture on the front wrapper, back wrapper is stained; internally occasional foxing stains and fingerprints. A collection of four short stories about lions that are perfect for reading to teenagers. The first story "Za l'vami po… Read more about this item
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Revolyutsionnaya poeziya na Zapade (Revolutionary Poetry of the West) [Anthology]
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Revolyutsionnaya poeziya na Zapade (Revolutionary Poetry of the West) [Anthology]

by Translation: Sergei Zayaitsky, Lev Ostroumov; Edited and with a foreword by Leonid Grossman

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Used - Good
Edition
1st Russian edition
Published
1927
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Print run 2,000 copies. Good condition; cover shows slight rubbing, creases at the cover edges and across cover corners, vertical book-length creaser on the front wrapper, repaired spine ends and small outer corner pieces of the back wrapper; internally two minor holes on the title page, bookstore markings on the inner side of the back wrapper. At the end of… Read more about this item
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Bedeker naiznanku : beglye zametki o Parizhe i Londone = Der Narrenbaedeker : Aufzeichnungen aus Paris und London  (The Fools' Baedeker : Quick Notes from Paris and London) [Socialist Critique of the West]
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Bedeker naiznanku : beglye zametki o Parizhe i Londone = Der Narrenbaedeker : Aufzeichnungen aus Paris und London (The Fools' Baedeker : Quick Notes from Paris and London) [Socialist Critique of the West]

by Arthur Holitscher; Translation from German: Gerbert Zukkau

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Used - Very Good
Edition
1st Russian edition
Published
1926
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Print run 4,000 copies.Very good condition; cover shows signs of rubbing, creases across cover corners and occasional vertical creases, repaired spine ends; internally creases across outer corners of the sheets throughout. Arthur Holitscher (1869–1941) was a German novelist and essayist. But the genre that finally earned him his reputation was the travelogue. Throughout all his works, Holitscher kept a focus… Read more about this item
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