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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
1949002507London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1949. 543 with 18 maps 3 folding and numerous plates. A comprehensive study tracing the expansion of Russian sea power through the ages 848-1948 and her relations with two other great naval powers England and the United States. Notation on title page. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
1949007248London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1949. ppxvi 543 with 18 maps 3 folding and numerous plates. A comprehensive study tracing the expansion of Russian sea power through the ages 848-1948 and her relations with two other great naval powers England and the United States. Previous owner name on ffep. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
1955mon0000431490Hamish Hamilton 1955-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Occasional spot stain but text unaffected. Hamish Hamilton hardcover
1721262775London 1721. 43 1 pp. Removed slight foxing. 43 1 pp. ESTC N12949 unknown
1983BOOKS073371IMoscow: Planeta Publishers 1983. HC. good w/good dustjacket hardcover. color illustrations. Text in Russian only - impressive photographs. 168pp. Planeta Publishers 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
1952008675Washington D.C: US Government Printing Office 1952. 545pp; 12 tables; 15 charts; 5 maps; green cloth; gilt titles Light age - overall clean and tight. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. US Government Printing Office hardcover
1931004694New York: Columbia University Press 1931. 251pp. Describes the 11 years of prohibition in Finland the problems of smuggling and alcoholism the temperance movement attitudes of the press and other aspects of the controvery. Previous owner bookplate inside front cover. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Columbia University Press hardcover
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
192517719New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelfwear to boards ; Presentation copy from WM E. Borah with presentation slip from United States Senate slip laid in. ; 8vo; 402 pages . E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1929ZB1339926NY: The Century Co. 1929. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item inscribed by the author; second printing xxi 310 pp. hardcover very good in a worn 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. Photos available upon request. NY: The Century Co. hardcover
19290021<p>New York: The Century Co. 1929. Condition: very good. Encased in a protective mylar sleeve. Translated by Jean S. Proctor.</p> The Century Co. hardcover
199723222<p>new oversize hc expedited shipping not available</p> Parkstone Press hardcover
185995278X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1981010361New York: Continuum 1981. 329 pp. Translation of 'Les origines intellectuelles du leninisme'. Contents: The Ideology; The French Cycle; The German Cycle; The Religious Education of Russia; Liberalism or Revolution; The Intelligentsia; The New Man; A Dream of the Party; A Sketch of the Party; Social DemocracY; Lenin; Metaphysical Leninism; Political Leninism; Truth and Falsehood; In Power; The Dominion of the False. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Continuum Hardcover
1962009737New York: Praeger 1962. 320pp. Political and social institutions of Imperial Russia under the last three Tsars. Light rubbing to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Praeger Hardcover
1975004318New York: Harper & Row 1975. 594 pages with several photos. Rare 1st Ed. Detailed history of the initial campaigns on the Eastern Front. Light edgewear to dj. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row Hardcover
188884805New York: Harper and Brothers 1888. First Edition. Octavo. 17.5cm. Publisher's green pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. vi; 1; 401pp.6pp. ads to rear. Light rubbing to corners slight scuffing and some minor bumping to spine ends with a small spot stain at the very head of the spine small dent to upper edges of the boards; internally clean with some superficial soiling to the page edges ownership of Pennsylvania historian Gertrude Bosler Biddle to front flyleaf. A very good clean and handsome copy.<br /> <br /> WITH<br /> <br /> London: 1890-93. Three ALS autograph letters signed on folded stationery sheets as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. Dated "March 31" without year; from context ca. 1888-1890. 2pp ca. 250 words in black ink; datemarked St. John's Wood March 31. Requesting the publisher's permission to commission a German translation of his Russian Peasantry which first appeared in 1888 with a second edition in 1890. Stepniak proposes 50/50 division of royalties and identifies the translator as Victor Adler who has just been sentenced to three months in prison and thus now has "ample leisure" for undertaking the translation. Adler 1852-1918 was founder and first chairman of the Austrian Socialist Democratic Workers Party in 1888. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Near Fine. <br /> <br /> 2. Dated November 6 1890. 1pp ca. 75 words in blue ink. Declines a request from his publisher to undertake a book on the Jewish Question: ".it is impossible for me to write upon any question upon Jews or anything else for I am quite full with preparing a series of American lectures." Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Slight smudging final two lines and left margin not affecting legibility. Very Good. <br /> <br /> 3. Dated May 15 1893. 2pp ca. 120 words in black ink. Addressed to "Dear Mrs i.e. messieurs Sonnenschein" accepting an invitation to visit but stating he cannot arrive early. Signed at close "S. Stepniak." Light soil; Near FIne. <br /> <br /> Sergei Stepniak aka Sergius; aka Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinskii 1851-1895 made his revolutionary bones during the Narodnik Rebellion of 1877-78 by openly assassinating Nikolai Mezentsov the head of the Czar's secret police on the streets of St. Petersburg. Kravchinskii committed the act in broad daylight and made no attempt to disavow his guilt living publicly if dangerously for several months before finally escaping to Switzerland. He arrived in London around 1880 and quickly became the center of a lively Russian revolutionary exile scene. He founded the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in 1891 and wrote a number of well-received books on revolutionary Russia including Underground Russia which had in fact been published in translation prior to his exile The Russian Peasantry 1888; and a fictionalized account of his own exploits The Career of a Nihilist 1889. He was killed somewhat mysteriously we think by an onrushing train in December of 1895 depriving him of any opportunity to witness the fruit of his labors in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Dying young Stepniak did not leave a great body of manuscript material behind him and relatively few letters with good content have appeared in commerce. Harper and Brothers unknown
1972010465London: Ian Allen 1972. 176pp/illus. History of Russian Fleet during WWI. Light rubbing to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ian Allen Hardcover
0656131047.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1979007336New York: Random House 1979. 345 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos. This is an unrivialed collection of nearly 500 photographs of a world lost to us from mid-nineteeth century to the revolution. Light wear to dj. Text clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Random House hardcover
1019893133.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
200148034London: Frank Cass. Good; Collectible - SCARCE SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 2001. Hardbound. 0714650501 . 466 pages . Frank Cass hardcover
1956003803London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1956. xiv 480pp. b/w pls. maps index Original red cloth. Series of papers on the Russian Army including some remarkable misconceptions by German Generals such as Guderian Blumentritt & von Manstein. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
