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1940209821Los Angeles.: Los Angeles Examiner. 1940. Printed colour pictorial map on a single newspaper leaf 42.3 x 39.9 cms; 54.3 x 42.5 cms sheet archivally laid down on linen slight discoloration to lower centrefold and sheet slightly age-toned but in very good condition. A striking geopolitical map by Los Angeles Examiner artist Howard Burke covering China Japan Southern Russia and the northern part of French Indochina and Siam showing how the "Aggressors Divide China." Areas under Japanese occupation are shown in red and their naval blockade shown by an arc of naval vessels with vivid arrows indicating lines of supply. Text labels including sources of agricultural and raw materials provide a dynamic overview of the geopolitical situation and show the influence of American scientific illustrator and cartographer Richard Edes Harrison who argued for examining geographic issues from multiple perspectives and Los Angeles Times artist Charles Owens. . Los Angeles Examiner. unknown
198081760Moscow: Tushino Machine Building Plant 1980's. Pasteboard box 44cm x 23cm. Name printed in stark black and white onto a stereotypically minimalist Soviet box all the more susrprising considering this is a toy for children. Light inoffensive wear to the extremities a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners clean and complete. The verso of the box lid contains a plan of the contents with item numbers and small illustrations. Inside the box liner is moulded polystyrene with spaces for the individual components ranging from pressed steel baseboards and wall/hull sections to a set of rubber tyres woven string to simulate hawsers and cables pulleys connecting rods all the necessary tools a bag of nuts bolts and other connector pieces; all mass produced in a fashion that would have even a cursory modern day child safety inspection shutting down the whole plant and issuing a warning that if your children get this for Christmas you might need to count their fingers on Boxing Day. Miraculously complete as far as can be ascertained and with very little sign of use including the plans and construction book which is complex enough to count as aggressively educational and has the original warranty sheet with inspection stamps hand stamped and dated 1992 although the slip dates the set to the 1980's laid in. The introduction to the set in the 62 page instruction book states: "The 'Yunost' contruction set is a game designed in 1944 to introduce children aged 10-15 years to the principles of technical design and construction engineering. Each set of the 'Yunost' construction set contains the most intricate parts intnded for assembling models of various mechanisms machines and industrial structures."<br /> <br /> Clearly designed as a controlled Soviet alternative to Western toys like Erector Sets Meccano and the like the principles are identical whilst the delivery is rather more tailored to a deliberately educational USSR approach to entertaining children. "Nothing without purpose" seems to have been the guiding tenet of USSR toy production approaches which became notorious for taking an existing Western temptation like Meccano or Lego or GI-Joe and adapting them to the requirements of collective adherence to the improvement of the USSR. To Western eyes a lot of this material looks like the physical representation of the "We have McDonalds at home." meme but whilst Western toy design was aimed as much at keeping kids quiet and out of the way with a side of education the Soviet philosophy seems to have been 'if a child is building a toy crane then he should be learning the principles of load bearing members understanding pulleys and getting an idea of where crane operators fit into the process of industrial engineering' whilst this approach seems to take some of the joy out of play time it also contributed to the Western paranoia that the USSR was basically a cradle to grave enemy factory. Tushino Machine Building Plant unknown
199839784Moscow: Interbook Business Publishers 1998. Folio. 241 7 pp. 100s of colour illusts. Black boards gilt lettrng vry slght bmpng to crnrs w/ d.j. vry slght bmpng to lwr crnrs VG/VG. First edition of this spectacularly illustrated work on the traditional Russian lacquers lace embroidery scrimshaw porcelain ceramics weaving metalwork jewelry textiles and more. Printed in only 5000 copies. [Interbook Business Publishers, hardcover
191755871N.p. 1917. Some light creasing and a few short marginal tears; otherwise fine. Folio. Printed from a photographic plate of the original letter. With typescript translation into English. Nicolas II granted the constitutional reforms that altered the entire political outlook of Russia. He was forced to abdicate and he and his family were executed at Ekaterinburg July 1918. This facsimile was most likely printed for circulation in Russia. unknown
190428398New York: Harper's 1904. First printing. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. Lg 4to 994pp of bound weekly issues. This half year bound volume of Harper's Weekly January 2 1904 to June 25 1904 features the Russo-Japanese War double page War map p464; war images pp967-975; X Ray invention p49; Steamer "General Slocum" on p99; San Juan Hill p955; Walter Travers golf p931; St. Louis World Fair p677; Southern California The Story of Its Development. pp504-519. With woodblock illustrations on the covers of the weekly issues. Complete with the supplements.<br /> <br /> Weekly issues bound up into a large single volume with 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Leather spine chipped cracked along the hinges but the binding is holding. Internally bright & very clean. Harper's hardcover
192659234Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1926; 1930. Two vols. 8vo.viii 478 pp.; 1 22; 1 leaves. With 1 large folding colour map. First vol. in tan publisher’s buckram black lettering front cover & spine minor soiling spotting fore-edges of covers darkening to spine very slight uniform interior toning; 2nd. vol. w/ self-printed softcovers toning to fore-edges minor chipping still VG set. Second edition stated of vol. I and 1st edition of Supplement. These uncommon coast pilot guides to Eastern Mediterranean waters the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov draw upon British Royal Navy Ottoman Empire & Turkish coast pilots Russian & U.S. Navy reports. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions. The maps outlines the available charts for the designated areas surrounding the Black Sea as well as detailing those for the extensive set of the Mediterranean Sea. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, paperback
194984391New York: Macmillan 1949. Second Printing. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's slate grey cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. ix; 342pp. Lightly sunned to spine with some light bumping and fading to the extremities; internally clean with a name and military ID number stamped on the top-edge of the page block and another numerical stamp to the bottom edge; in a priceclipped dustjacket with shalow fraying and chipping to the spine ends and extremities some light soiling to the pale paper and toning to the spine panel. A very good copy in a dustjacket that has seen some use.<br /> <br /> An extremely readable history of the social hierarchies and structures of Russia prior to the Revlution and the manner in which a nation deals with the overturning of all that it held familiar and enduring. Macmillan unknown
194683794Stanford CA: Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War Revolution and Peace 1946. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xv; 658pp. Very light wear to the cloth mostly confined to some shallow cosmetic bumping to spine ends; internally clean; in a clean strong price-clipped dustjacket with some marginal fraying and isolated shallow loss to edges some toning of the spine panel and some largely unnecessary tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy in a dustjacket with some light wear.<br /> <br /> A sizeable biography of the life of Ipatieff who managed to be a respected scientific figure before the Revolution and an even more respected one afterwards. It can have been no mean feat to have been head of Imperial Russian chemical warfare research during WW1 and then post-revolution to be held responsible for the revitalization of the chemical industry of the newly minted USSR. A joint memoir of the last days of Imperial Russia and the early days of the USSR with all the turbulence fear and uncertainty that must have engendered. Stanford University Press for The Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace unknown
193683612New York: The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson 1936. Stated Third Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's heavy grain pale grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. xi; 241pp. Some wear and discoloration to extremities very light it's a very solidly produced book so wear and tear is represented by darkening of the cloth at the edges and some softening of the spine ends rather than anything more drastic; internally clean ownership to front pastedown author's signature to front flyleaf; in a handsome example of the gold and black dustjacket with some chipping and shallow loss to the spine ends scuffing and rubbing to the gilt paper coating and some marginal creasing and soiling. A very good solid copy. Illustrated throughout with full page plates. <br /> <br /> For a man named by his father after the logo of the American Socialist Labor Party after slipping out of Odessa in the 1870's Armand Hammer's journey to become one of the world's most influential businessmen and "Lenin's Favorite Capitalist" must have been a dramatic one. <br /> His father Julius had spent much of the early 20th century consolidating his role at Allied Drug and Chemical which was essentially at times a smuggling front shipping embargoed goods to Russia during the US trade sanctions. After Julius was sentenced to 3 years in Sing Sing allegedly for a botched abortion that resulted in the death of a Russian woman from subsequent pneumonia although modern research suggests that Armand a medical student might have been the one who performed the abortion and Julius took responsibility as the qualified senior medical professional present Armand took over Allied Drug and Chemical and raised it to new heights of corporate success. <br /> During Prohibition Allied's largest seller was a essentially alcoholic ginger ale sold as a medicinal tonic to great profit. <br /> <br /> Acting under the instructions of his imprisoned father Armand began taking numerous business trips to the Soviet Union. A young J. Edgar Hoover at that point basically an analyst at the Justice Department very strongly believed that the equally youthful Hammer was a COMINTERN courier and essentially placed him under surveillance for the rest of his life. <br /> Hammer's trips to Russia were ostensibly to recoup bad debts but this quickly developed into a number of lucrative business deals not least of which was selling cheap wheat to starving famine hit areas of Russia. Hammer developed a close co-operative no pun intended relationship with Lenin which resulted in a number of very high status business contracts and deals ranging from medical import contracts to 25 year's worth of asbestos mining in the Urals; one of Hammer's greatest coups was arranging payment for various services in furs caviar jewellery and antiquities seized by the Party from its long tail of enemies making him essentially a conduit for looted and otherwise dubious art jewels and antiques. <br /> At the height of Lenin's New Economic Policy Armand Hammer was the sole trade liason between the enormity of Soviet Russia and 38 major US corporations seeking to build trade deals through him. His grasp of the downrange necessities of dealing with the Soviets; graft bribery corruption and palm greasing was legendary and by the 1970's when his methods were starting to be inspected more closely there was no doubt that Hammer's understanding of legitimate business was secondary to his instinctive abilities in the fields of corporate and beaurocratic bribery and manipulation. <br /> This book is one personal perspective on the empire of treasure that Hammer accumulated; there are others and the entangled ephemeral traces of looted artworks forged and unfinished Fabergé eggs specially manufactured jeweller's tools designed to copy Fabergé's style exactly and a wealth of other foggy rumors and suspicions ranging from Armand the KGB stooge to Armand the James Bond Villain bent on Soviet domination through capitalism will continue to follow in his wake whether he be considered a legitimate businessman or a highly successful 20th century robber baron of legendary proportions. The Paisley Press Inc. Succeeding William Farquhar Payson unknown
197639583Moscow: Izd. Izobrazitelnoe iskusstvo 1976. Folio. 247 1 pp. 109 colour plates text illusts. Colour-illust. boards mnr shlfwr mnr scuffng to uppr frnt cvr slght bmpng still a VG- copy issued w/o dustjacket. First edition of this scarce and informative collection of 18th and 19th century Russian portraits providing and invaluable resource into czarist Russian costume textiles jewelry and ornament. Izd. Izobrazitelnoe iskusstvo, hardcover
193729282Russia 1937. Ten b&w RPPCs showing mostly scenes of Moscow and 1 of Maxim Gorky seated with children. Locations include: the former St. Basil Cathedral The Kremlin Tsar Bell 2 The Kremlin in Winter 2 one of the cathedral in St. Petersbourg several other Moscow scenes. One card showing the Russian building at the Exposition International in Paris 1937. Citadelle et la Cathedrale des Sts Pierre et Paul St. Petersourg Stengel & Co Dresden fullback postcard. <br /> Two rppc's have writing the rest blank or copyrighted in 1931. A traveler addresses two cards to the Beach family in New York City one franked in 1933 enjoying his tour of Russia in four days. The other card has an image of the Exposition Internationale Paris 1937 and writes on the verso: "We've been to the exhibition - disappointing very unready and uninteresting as yet. The German & Russian Buildings complete. Expressive of each nation as to size. They frighten me. We are off to Switzerland tomorrow and pleased to go."<br /> <br /> All in very good condition. unknown
195921046Leningrad: State publishing House Isskustvo 1959. Hardcover. Good overall. 1959 Soviet Russia volume on the Russian resort town of Sochi which hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 2014. Located on the "Russian Riviera" on the Black Sea with a long & beautiful coastline and known during the Soviet era as the "All Union Health Resort".<br /> <br /> 4to 210pp many color and b&w photographic ills. Photo captions in Russian and English. Cream boards with title in dark blue at front board and spine. With the original pictorial dust jacket with title in red and white on blue ground at dj front. Dj rubbed & chipped with small loss at spine. Spine ends a bit rubbed; internally owner inscription in Russian at ffep. State publishing House Isskustvo hardcover
198284404New York: Crane Russak 1982. First Thus. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. xxvi; 398pp. Light bumping to spine ends some very light wear to the extremities of the cloth; internally clean; in a clean sharp example of the dustjacket. A near fine copy.<br /> <br /> A study produced under the auspices of the RAND Corporation a military adjacent think-tank and research institution originally created to research and protect against future methods of warfare but later expanding into the civilian sector. Coinciding with the opening of Soviet hostilities against Afghanistan but working from a body of knowledge accumulated since the end of WW2 and the commencement of the Cold War this is an attempt to predict and understand Soviet military and strategic thinking and behavior in time of conflict. Crane Russak unknown
195583663New York: Henry Holt 1955. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over grey paper covered boards titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 315pp. Some very light soiling to the paler portions of the boards minor bumping to spine ends internally clean with some offsetting to pastedowns and a very few discrete pencil marks to margins of the prelims in a bright sharp dustjacket with some minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> A rather alarmist but for the time rational analysis of the breadth of Soviet intelligence attempts to maintain and utilize a global espionage network; covers the Atom Spy frenzy The Rosenbergs Alger Hiss etc. Henry Holt unknown
198284406New York: W.W. Norton & Co 1982. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled and decorated in black silver and gilt to spine. Dustjacket.xvii; 636pp.; 7pp. Clean and bright with minimal wear; internally clean. A very good copy indeed. <br /> <br /> A compendium of writings and art pieces banned or denied publication in the Soviet Union originally issued in 1979 under the title of "Metropol" with the demand that they be published free of state censorship. The demand was predictably refused and copies of Metropol were circulated secretly within the Soviet Union before eventually making their way into the West. W.W. Norton & Co unknown
197484419New York: Taplinger Publishing Co 1974. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 472pp. Clean and sharp; internally clean top edge stained red; in a strong bright dustjacket with light wear to extremities. A very good copy indeed.<br /> <br /> Ninety-two documents showing the development of Soviet internal and foreign policy dating from the Revolution to the period of publication. Taplinger Publishing Co unknown
19727342Mexico City Mexico: WACL WYACL & FEMACO 1972. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 216 30 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates. Small 4to. measuring 7.5" x 10.5". Bound in illustrated navy-blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the front board. Generously illustrated with dozens of chiefly black-and-white some colour photographic plates capturing conference proceedings and participants. Provides a comprehensive record of the conference proceedings organized by the Mexican affiliate of the World Anti-Communist League WACL namely the Federación Mexicana Anticomunista FEMACO comprising a detailed list of delegates from participating nations - including Australia Canada South Korea Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Malaysia New Zealand the Philippines Thailand South Vietnam Jordan Lebanon Saudi Arabia Turkey Lesotho Liberia France the United Kingdom West Germany Italy Sweden the United States Guatemala El Salvador Costa Rica and Nicaragua - along with representatives holding observer and candidate status. Prefaced with messages of support from key anti-Communist leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek Ferdinand E. Marcos Park Chung-hee Leabua Jonathan and Nguy n V n Thi u. Outlines the detailed programme of events for the week-long milieu as well as printed texts of proposals studies deliberations and resolutions many of which include sharp criticisms of the Soviet Union the Peoples Republic of China their allied states and security apparatuses. A rare extant copy offering valuable insight into the operations and rhetoric of this unusual virulently anti-Communist and far-right Cold War organization later to be implicated in myriad allegations of wrongdoing. Light rubbing to the cloth extremities contents uniformly without blemish; near fine and housed in very good illustrated dustjacket showing small loss to the lower-right margin of the front panel and one short closed tear dustjacket now housed in protective mylar cover. Overall very good. Highly rare. Equally rare amongst institutional holdings. Corresponds to OCLC #123216394 which records only two holdings at time of cataloguing. Rare indeed. <br/><br/>¶ Founded in 1966 in Taipei Taiwan as a global coalition of right-wing groups opposing communism the WACL evolved from the Asian People's Anti-Communist League APACL. Supported and led by staunch anti-Communist figures such as Chiang Kai-shek Taiwan Park Chung-hee South Korea John K. Singlaub USA and Charles A. Willoughby USA the WACL backed authoritarian regimes paramilitary groups and anti-Communist insurgencies including the Nicaraguan Contras. It would subsequently face criticism for its ties to extremists former Nazis and death squads particularly in Latin America. At the close of Cold War in 1990 the organization would rebrand as the the World League for Freedom and Democracy WFLD. WACL, WYACL & FEMACO hardcover
1968122640A La Vielle Russie 1968. paperback. Very Good. 11x7x0. Tight and unmarked softcover illustrated light front cover curl.F41 Please email for photos. A La Vielle Russie paperback
1968251223003New York: A La Vielle Russie 1968. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. 11x7x0. Book is in nice shape with some very light exterior wear and toning to the cover edges. Contains 318 illustrations 23 of them in color. Has some really remarkable photographs of highly ornate pieces of jewelry. A La Vielle Russie paperback
1956216390Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Nauk SSSR 1956. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original title-blocked blind-ruled cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 684 pages; Physical desc.: 684 p. 21 cm. Subject: Tenth International Congress of Historians in Rome -- September 1955 Reports of the Soviet delegation. Language: Russian. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Nauk SSSR hardcover
1933ZB1339931Farrar & Rinehart 1933. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 weekend SALE item first American edition x 299 pp. frontis. plates; original red cloth hardcover stain to the front free endpaper else very good in a worn and tattered dust jacket. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
2000042747Ticehurst: Royalty Digest 2000. 2nd Limited reprint. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. An unread book. Reprint limited to 100 copies. Royalty Digest hardcover
19321806194Garden City. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1932. Clean & Tight Contents. Hard Cover. I196 . Garden City hardcover
1933B28917New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Includes a signed personal letter from infamous literary agent Jacques Chambrun to Good Housekeeping editor W.F. Bigelow which is pasted to front pastedown! First edition 1933 hardcover with red cloth boards octavo 299pp. illustrated in b&w. Book VG with mild rubbing and soil to boards binding tight text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Chambrun was noted for screwing his writers out of large sums of money including $30000 from Somerset Maugham. After finally being abandoned by every writer with which he worked he started 16 magazine the teeny-bopper celebrity worship rag. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1932ZB1339908Cosmopolitan Book Corporation/Farrar & Rinehart 1932. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item signed by Alexander at the front free endpaper; xi 348 pp. frontis. plates; original blue cloth hardcover very good in a worn dust jacket; published by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation/Farrar & Rinehart. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation/Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
