New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light edge wear to jacket.
Uncovers the story of Francis Gary Powers's flight in a CIA U-2 spy plane into Soviet airspace two weeks before a vital Paris summit meeting in 1960 between Eisenhower and Khrushchev.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1980. Enlarged Edition. Trade Paperback.
Two publisher stickers on rear cover, spine lightly creased and faded, ink name on half-title page.
288 pp. Includes 319 illustrations. The spread of Greek civilization through Europe, into Africa and the Near East began long before the Classical period, long.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges lightly foxed.
xviii, [4], 312 pp. 8vo. Genealogical table, black-and-white photographs. "After the Bolshevik murder of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and other members of the Russian royal family in 1918, what became of the Romanov jewels.....
New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1904. Large Hardcover.
Edges lightly rubbed.
vi, 120 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. CONTENTS: Causes of the War; The Preparatory Stage of the War; The First Battles of the War; The March to Ping-Yang; From Chenampo to the Yalu; The Russian Advance to the Front;.....
New York: Robert M. McBride Co., 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with small chips and small tears. Sticker on front paste-down endpaper.
160 pp. "This is the personal story of one of Soviet Russia's most famous performers and trainers of wild animals. In this engaging.....
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed.
293, [3] pp. 8vo. Photographic endpapers. Includes section of black-and-white photographs. "In this book, the well-known Soviet historian Natan Eidelman describes Russia's first, aristocratic revolutionaries - the Decembrists, who staged an insurrection in 1825 against Tsar Nicholas I in an attempt.....
Boston: Gambit, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light edge wear.
286 pp. A 1971 work examining the rise of the USSR as a sea power, with a complete list of the military-grade vessels that were part of the Russian navy.
UK: The History Press, 2008. First UK Edition. Large Hardcover.
First UK edition. Jacket base stained.
288 pp. On March 28, 1854, Queen Victoria’s government announced that Britain had declared war on Russia. Few conflicts have provoked as much debate as The Crimean War, with details right down to the.....
New Haven, Connecticut: The Beinecke Library / Yale University, 2003. Large Softcover.
Pages very faintly toned.
143 pp. This book celebrates the unique collections of Yale University, chiefly of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on the occasion of the tercentenary of the city of St. Petersburg. They are.....
New York: Anchor Books, 2019. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Edge wear.
411 pp. "An enthralling feat of historical suspense that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's fifty-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess or the thief of another.....
New York: Basic Books, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. Wrappers just beginning to delaminate along bottom edge, otherwise an excellent copy.
viii, 418 pp. "For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope.....
New York: Praeger, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edge wear to jacket.
xi, 303 pp. A definitive history of the takeover of Czechoslovakia by the Germans in World War II.
New York: Putnam, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint toning.
354 pp. Lockhart was Britain's unofficial envoy to the Bolshevik government in Russia. During his tenure, Lockhart was a dipomatic representative, but was arrested and detained by the Bolsheviks for a period of time. He was also associated.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket lightly toned.
493 pp. "'Land of the Firebird' is a wonderful and engagnig in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to right before the Revolution. With colorful prose.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Edge wear.
"Viktor Aleksandrovich Nekipelov (September 29, 1928 Harbin, China - July 1, 1989 Paris) was a Russian poet, translator, human rights activist and dissident. Pharmacist by occupation, in 1968, he participated in protest against the Soviet invasion.....
Russia: Arca Publishers, 2010. Large Hardcover.
Jacket near fine. Binding shaken.
328 pp. Volume I only. "In nearly 250 years, the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, has evolved into one of Europe's most palatial museums, alongside the Louvre in Paris, the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, and the Vatican Palace.....
Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed.
xii, 183, [1] pp. 8vo. A study of Napoleon's peace tactics, the influence of political illusions on the relationship of Russia and the West, and the various misunderstandings between these two cultures.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author on half-title page with inscription, "To John, Janet & Douglas Westerberg! With best wishes and hope that your collection may be complete! September 22nd, 1992." Jacket edges rubbed with a couple small tears. Page ridges.....
London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket.
viii, 287 pp. What caused revolution among the last major monarchies of the modern period? Why were Louis XVI, Nicholas II and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi all overthrown and was this the result of their historical background or.....
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Foxing to page ridge.
420 pp. A former KGB officer who had access to the most sensitive Soviet intelligence. He describes in detail his life as a member of the KGB and his defection to the West.
Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine faded, ink name on front free endpaper.
xiv, 316 pp. I do not pretend to have made a profound study of this or that situation or to be an expert on Russia of to-day, nothing.....
London: Elibron Classics, 2005. Facsimile. Trade Paperback.
A fine copy.
2005 facsimile of 1801 original. A history of Petersburg.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed and toned, sticker on rear jacket corner.
ix, [10]-318 pp. A history of Russian aircraft in the quarter century following World War II. Black-and-white photographs throughout.
New York: Atheneum, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink name on endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed.
Provides an account of the first years of the Cold War, with insights into the state of the world after the Second World War and vivid portraits of such personalities as Stalin, Beria.....
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some minor chips.
ix, 238 pp. Siberian Passage, first published in 1949, is a fascinating look at the land and peoples of far northern Russia in the early 1900s. The author was a member.....