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The Life and Deayh of Stalin.
New York, 1952, in-8, mezza tela editoriale.
Libreria Antiquaria Gozzini · Firenze, IT21,00 €
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250x155 mm. 49 pages. Hardcover. Cover yellowing. Cover stained. Cover corners worn. Spine wrinkled. Spine edges slightly bumped. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
New York, 1952, in-8, mezza tela editoriale.
270 pages including index and notes. "With the disillusionment of the later 1930s, the distraction of the war, and, most of all, the increased support enjoyed by the CCF after 1940, the LSR disappeared as a formal organization, but its ideas shaped a political tradition which found expression in teh CCF and later the NDP." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket bears some sunning to spine and light wear. Now preserved in Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
Contains b&w plates. 165x115 mm. 64 pages. Softcover. Cover yellowing. Cover corners and edges wrinkled and rubbed. Spine edges worn. Stamp on inner cover. Pages edges worn - NO damage to text. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
pp. xii, 192. Penciled notations on paste down. Tall 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, gold stamped, worn. First American edition. Coldwar/Economics 7
IN HEBREW. 24.5x17.5 cm. 21+326 pages. Gilt Hardcover. Library copy with usual marks. Cover edges slightly faded. Else in good condition.
IN HEBREW. 245X170 mm. 304+XV pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly bumped. Else in good condition.
IN HEBREW. 23.5x16 cm. 433 pages. Hardcover. Pen writing on front whitepage. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
IN YIDDISH. 23.5x16cm. 464 pages. Hardcover. Cover stained and rubbed. Cover edges and corners worn and bumped. Spine worn, rubbed and tattered. Spine cracked. Pen inscription on front inner cover and title page. Ex-library copy with usual marks. Several pages edges and corners slightly worn. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
pp. x, 263. 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, worn. Third printing. "Strange but true stories previously unreported by reporters concerning the famous and not-so famous, in hindsight now often illuminating, anecdotes of incidents prior to World War II." Coldwar/Economics 3.
pp. xiii, 105. Ownership and notes of Marion L. Chamberlain, N.Y., 1904. Small 8vo. Original full printed linen wraps. An important early study by one of America's most influential historians and thinkers. It investigated the process and effects of Britain's industrial revolution. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Coldwar/Economics 4
Pages 337-364. Features: Colour ad for Ford cars inside front cover; Title page photo of the second 16 Power Conference in Paris; Article discusses communism; 4 Photos illustrate life in Russian-ruled Potsdam and Weimar - historic German cities in the Soviet zone; Photos of the royal family's weekend home, and the chapel they attend; Book review of "Art And The Industrial Revolution" by Francis D. Klingender; Series of photos illustrates a unique fifty-year treaty signed in Brussels - the five power Western European pact; Photos of Earl Mountbatten in Burma - ceremonial, and informal events; Wonderful full-page photo of Mountbatten walking shoeless near Rangoon's most sacred pagoda, the Shwe (Golden) Dagon; Article with map discusses the naval WWII battle of the Philippines; Full-page photo shows Harry Truman asking Congress to accept conscription; Five photos show Princess Margaret visiting Glasgow; Four photos document Oxford and Cambridge rowing crews battling for the 98th time; Fantastic centrefold photos show Sheila's Cottage, a mare, winning the Grand National; Five photos show the war cabinet's underground headquarters, preserved for posterity; 4 Photos document fighting in Greece; Photos of the demolition of a massive German flak tower in the French sector of Berlin; Photo of the first Battalion, the Somerset light infantry, the last British troops to leave India, arriving at Liverpool; Photos of personalities of the week include Dr. Guy Dain, Istvan Bede, Prof. Nicola Delapchiev, Sen. Tom Connally, George C Marshall, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Gateshead alderman F. L. Burrow, Pope Pius XII in the Vatican, Adm. Sir F. H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton; Photos of Royal Army equipment displayed, including a superheavy Howitzer and a helicopter; Photos of British troops in British Honduras; Article on the re-creation of the Zoser's 5000-year-old "Eternal Dwelling" at Sakkarah; Two pages of photos of Egypt's first pyramid - restorations and a reconstruction at Sakkarah; Very nice back cover colour ad for "Black and White" Scotch whisky shows rugger game in progress. Coverfold of advertising outer layer clumsily taped, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 57-84. Features: Front cover photo of model of the new House of Commons; Photos of personalities of the week include Richard Tauber, Lord Trefgarne, Dr. Groza, Mrs. Anna Pauker, Sir Arthur Fforde, Sir Miles Thomas, the crew of the Penlee lifeboat, the former ruler of Rumania in exile -ex-King Michael with his mother, Queen Helen, at Lausanne, Maj. Gen. N. Cantlie, Dame Anne Laughlin, Sir Donald Cameron, Salih Jabr; Two pages of photos with map illustrate the daily bloodshed visited upon Jerusalem, including the bombed-out Semiramis Hotel; Book review of "No Dishonourable Name", by D. C. Quilter; Six photos and a map illustrate troubled Greece - the Konitza Battle; Photos of the Surrey house chosen by the Princess and the Duke of Edinburgh as a weekend residence, Windlesham Moor; Two pages of photos of devastated Berlin; Centrefold illustration of construction of one of Britain's newest monster flying boats in the Cowes workshop where the S.R. 45 is now being built; Page of photos and maps illustrate the spread of communism in China, where Civil War seems unending; Page of photos of communist China's leaders and military scenes, including Mao, Lin Piao, Gen. Chu Teh, and General Liu Po-Cheng; Photo of massive crowd gathered to hear Gen. DeGaulle; Photo of crash scene of Vickers-Viking which killed the pilot at Ruislip Common; Photo of tornado devastation in Cotton Valley, Louisiana on January 1; Photo of Japanese payphone operated on the honour system (payment made with banknotes); Photo of "Schwere Gustav's" monster shell - this 7.5 ton shell is said to be the largest in the world - it was used against Sebastopol and Leningrad; Two pages of photos of recent Mayan discoveries at Xochicalco; Colour back cover Johnnie Walker ad compares antique trains to those of the modern day. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
sunning to spine, small tears to head and tail of spine, light chipping to corners of cover, soiling to page block, text clean and tight Used
pp. X, 25 + Plus index. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. As issued. Nice copy. Coldwar/Economics 8
pp. 219, 11 [Index]. Illustrated with color photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Very Good copy. ORIENT BOX 1
318p. + Plus photographs. Double column. Map endpapers. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Coldwar/Economics 1
8vo, 215 x 142 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. This is the story of Sasha Abramsky s grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so deceptively ordinary from the outside, the Abramskys created a remarkable House of Books. It became the repository for Chimen s collection of thousands upon thousands of books, manuscripts and other printed, handwritten and painted documents, representing his journey through the great political, philosophical, religious and ethical debates that have shaped the western world. Chimen Abramsky was barely a teenager when his father, a famous rabbi, was arrested by Stalin s secret police and sentenced to five years hard labour in Siberia, and fifteen when his family was exiled to London. Lacking a university degree, he nevertheless became a polymath, always obsessed with collecting ideas, with capturing the meanderings of the human soul through the world of great thoughts and thinkers. Rejecting his father s Orthodoxy, he became a Communist, made his living as a book-dealer and amassed a huge, and astonishingly rare, library of socialist literature and memorabilia. Disillusioned with Communism and belatedly recognising the barbarity at the core of Stalin s project, he transformed himself once more, this time into a liberal and a humanist. To his socialist library was added a vast trove of Jewish history volumes. Chimen ended his career as Professor of Hebrew and Jewish studies at UCL, London and rare manuscripts expert for Sotheby s. With his wife Miriam, Chimen made their house a focal point for left-wing intellectual Jewish life: hundreds of the world s leading thinkers, from Isaiah Berlin to Eric Hobsbawm, dined at their table. The House of Twenty Thousand Books brings alive this latter-day salon by telling the story of Chimen Abramsky s love affair with ideas and with the world of books and of Miriam s obsession with being a hostess and with entertaining. Room by room, book by book, idea by idea, the world of these politically engaged intellectuals, autodidacts and dreamers is lovingly resurrected. In this extraordinary elegy to a lost world, Sasha Abramsky s passionate narrative brings to life once more not just the Hillway salon, but the ideas, the conflicts, the personalities and the human yearnings that animated it
8vo, hardcover in dj, pp. xviii-1104, 416 b/w illus., 2 maps. On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy s War and Peace, Grossman s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union.Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths.Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.
8vo, br. ed. 370pp. Stalin had never been able to shake off the nightmare of Adolf Hitler. Just as in 1941 he refused to understand that Hitler had broken their non-aggression pact, he was in 1945 unwilling to believe that the dictator had committed suicide in the debris of the Berlin bunker. In his paranoia, Stalin ordered his secret police, the NKVD, precursor to the KGB, to explore in detail every last vestige of the private life of the only man he considered a worthy opponent, and to clarify beyond doubt the circumstances of his death. For months two captives of the Soviet Army--Otto Guensche, Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his personal valet--were interrogated daily, their stories crosschecked, until the NKVD were convinced that they had the fullest possible account of the life of the Führer. In 1949 they presented their work, in a single copy, to Stalin. It is as remarkable for the depth of its insight into Adolf Hitler--from his specific directions to Linge as to how his body was to be burned, to his sense of humor--as for what it does not say, reflecting the prejudices of the intended reader: Joseph Stalin. Nowhere, for instance, does the dossier criticize Hitler's treatment of the Jews. Today, the 413-page original of Stalin's personal biography of Hitler is a Kremlin treasure and it is said to be held in President Putin's safe. The only other copy, made by order of Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1959, was deposited in Moscow Party archives under the code number 462A. It was there that Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl, two German historians, found it. Available to the public in full for the first time, The Hitler Book presents a captivating, astonishing, and deeply revealing portrait of Hitler, Stalin, and the mutual antagonism of these two dictators, who between them wrought devastation on the European continent.
IN YIDDISH. 5 VOLUME SET. 2.8 kg. 235x155 mm. [379]+[640]+[500]+[398]+[331] pages. [ALL VOLUMES]: Gilt hardcover. Spine edges bumped. Pages slightly yellowing. [VOL. I]: Cover rubbed and stained. Cover corners slightly bumped. Few pencil inscriptions in the text. [VOLUMES II-III]: Cover corners bumped. [SUMMARY]: Otherwise all volumes in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
(Codice EB/0922) In 16° 36 pp. Attitudes series, September 1972. Paperback, fine. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA
IN HEBREW. 25x17.5 cm. 787 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners and edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition.
Detailed account of observations and experiences in Greece when the liberation from the Nazi occupation turned into the horrors of a Civil War. The text of the Caserta Agreement of 1944 and other offical documents are included as appendices. 270p. plates. Book
