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1. Biography; History; Political; Royalty; War; Spy & Espionage; True Crime; Aircraft
[19861] No Author. Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. London: Soviet News, 1955. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good
48 pages. As amended and added to at the first, second, third, fourth and fifth sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R
third convocation. £4.00Keyword: Communism Russian Russia
Communist Catalogues: Political
[20120] No Author. Planning in the
U.S.S.R. Brussels: U.S.S.R. Section, 1958. First Edition - Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾"
tall. Paperback. Good Reading Copy 100 pages. Bottom front edge is bumped, but this does not affect the contents.
£10.00Keyword: Planning Politics Russia Russian
Catalogues: Political
[B 02096] No Author. THE STRANGE ALLIANCE. THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN EFFORTS AT
WARTIME CO-OPERATION WITH RUSSIA. . Comments: John Murray (1947] - Working Copy - Hardback without Dustwrapper.
No inscriptions, cover bumped and rubbed to edges and corners. Aged and Dusty book sold as working copy. Collectible - Acceptable.
£3.49 [B
02711] No Author. WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA 1812 The Diary of Lt H.A.Vossler a Soldier of the Grand Army 1812 - 1813.
. Comments: Folio Hardback in rubbed Slipcase. Book good, slightly faded spine no inscriptions. Collectible
- Good. £8.99 [1535] Aksyutin, Yuri.
Lenin - Pages from a Life of Struggle. Moscow: Novosti Press Agency, 1983. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
tall. Soft Cover. Good 5 x 7.5"; 80pp; laminated linen covers; a clean copy; £3.00Keyword: Lenin, capitalism; socialism; communism; politics; Russia;Catalogues: Biography [13518] Alexander, John T.. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. New
York: Oxford University Press Inc, USA, 1989. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-19-505236-6. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public
life generated tremendous controversy, and she has been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress,
a tyrant, and a nymphomaniac. John Alexander's detailed research draws on little-known sources, including Catherine's love
notes, to produce a balanced appraisal of this remarkable woman throughout the whole of her long reign. £12.00Keyword: Russia Catherine Empress Royalty Women Woman Catalogues: Biography; History; Royalty
[8841] Alexander, John T.. Catherine
The Great - Life and Legend. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardback. Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0195052366. 6.25 x 9.5"; 418 pages; red boards, black cloth spine with gilt title,
very light foxing to top edge; dustwrapper; very good; £10.00Keyword: Catherine; Queen; Russia; royalty; history; Germany; woman; Catalogues: Biography; History;
Royalty
[9214] Anthony, Katharine. Catherine The Great - The Life and Letters Series
No. 13. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Ex-Library. Good
5.5 x 8"; 317 pages + 18 pages publishers advertisements; blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and front board, remains
of 'Boots Library' sticker to front board; ex-library stamps The Queen Victoria Institute to front endpapers and title page;
g/-; £5.00Keyword: Catherine; Russia; royalty; imperial; Germany; Prussian;
Catalogues:
Royalty [4998] Barr, Pat. Deer Cry Pavilion, The - A Story of Westerners in Japan
1868-1905. London: Macmillan, 1968. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very
Good / Good. 5.5 x 8.75"; 282pp; green cloth with black; dustwrapper, chipped to edges; illustrated; good clean copy;
£12.00 Keyword: Japan; history; industry; Western; war; Russia; Catalogues: History
[7803] Brzezinski, Zbigniew K. with an introduction by Robert R. Bowie.
Soviet Bloc, The - Unity and Conflict. Cambridge, MS: Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1960. First Edition. 8vo
- over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Poor. 6.5 x 9.5"; 467pp; black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper
chipped to edges with some loss, priceclipped; top edge dusty, good copy. Ideology and power in the relations among the USSR,
Poland, Yugoslavia, China and other Communist states. £10.00Keyword: communism communist Russia USSR Poland Yugoslavia China politics History Catalogues: History; Political
[24478] Carlyle, Thomas. History of Friedrich II of Prussia - Called Frederick the Great.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1903. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full-Leather.
Good / No Jacket - as issued. Ten volumes in five. Numerous fold-out maps. Green leather with gilt titles and decorations.
Spine of volume II is sunned. All five books are scuffed and would benefit from some careful restoration. £80.00Keyword: History Prussia Royalty Catalogues: History; Royalty
[15392] Charlton,
Michael. Star Wars History, The : From Deterrence to Defence - The American Strategic Debate. London: BBC, 1986.
First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 0-563-20505-9. The twenty-three
contributors to this unique oral history are eminent Americans and Europeans - among them President Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger,
etc. £6.50Keyword: America Nuclear Ballistic Star Wars Russia Catalogues: War
[24859] Chesterton, Mrs.
Cecil. Salute The Soviet. London: Chapman & Hall, 1942. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 221 pages. Behind the title of Mrs. Chesterton's latest book there is marshalled a mass of
revealing and illuminating facts. Dustjacket spine is darkened. £8.00Keyword: Russia Russian Communist Politics PoliticalCatalogues:
Political
[22432] Chorbajian,
Levon - Donabedian, Patrick and Mutafian, Claude. Caucasian Knot, The : The History and Geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh. London:
Zed Books, 1994. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Good ISBN: 1-85649-288-5. 198
pages. This book examines the history of Mountainous Karabagh, the ancient Artsakh of the Armenians. £15.00 Keyword: Armenia Azeri War Russia Russian Soviet Union History Catalogues: War
[6411]
Chuikov, Vasili I.. End of the Third Reich, The. London: MacGibbon, 1967. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardback. Good Reading Copy / Fair. 5.5 x 8.75"; 261pp; brown cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, chipped and with small
stain to front; pages 1-38 have been creased; good reading copy; £12.00Keyword: war; Germany; Third Reich; Russia; Stalingrad; Berlin; army; Catalogues: War
[24842]
Cornford, John. Communism Was My Waking Time. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1958. First Edition. 8vo
- over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 141 pages. Introduction is in Russian text, contents
in English. Loosely inserted to front is the original invoice for the book, dated 9.9.58 addressed to Trade Delegation of
the USSR in the United Kingdom, 32 Highgate West Hill, LONDON, N.6/ENGLAND. £150.00Keyword: Communism Politics Political
Russia RussianCatalogues: Political [14440] Costello, John and Tsarev, Oleg. Deadly
Illusions: The First Book from the KGB Archives. London: Century, 1993. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Good / Good - Priceclipped. ISBN: 0-7126-5500-X. Chronicles the rise to dominance of the
spy master Alexander Orlov, the principal architect and founder of the USSR's espionage networks. £10.00Keyword: Russia Russian Spy KGBCatalogues: Spy & Espionage
[19434] Dostoevskaia, A. G. and Stillman, Beatrice. Dostoevsky : Reminiscences. London:
Wildwood House, 1976. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN:
0-7045-0202-X. Quite simply, this is the most important firsthand account ever given of the life and character of the great
Russian novelist. £20.00Keyword: Russia Russian Novelist Writer Literary Catalogues: Biography
[5824-M]
Elletson, Harold. General against the Kremlin, The - Alexander Lebed, Power and Illusion. London: Little, Brown,
1998. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. As New / As New. ISBN: 0316644773. 5.5 x 9"; 335pp;
black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; illustrated. £10.00 Keyword: Russia;
Soviet Union; army; politics; history; guerrilla; Caucasus; Kremlin; Moscow; Yeltsin; Gorbachev; Chechnya;Catalogues: Political [545] Epstein, Edward Jay. Legend -The secret world of Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: McGraw-Hill with Readers Digest,
1978. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Fair. ISBN: 0-07-019539-0. Dustjacket has several
small tears. £6.00 Keyword:
Politics, Kennedy, USA, Assasination, Crime, FBI, President,
Russia Spy Catalogues: Biography; Politics; Spy & Espionage, True Crime
[2536]
Fischer, Henry W.. Private Lives of William II & His Consort, The - A secret history of the court of Berlin. London:
William Heinemann, 1904. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / No Jacket - as issued. 6.25 x
9"; 349pp; blue cloth with gilt, with gilt emblem to front board; all edges uncut, top edge dusty; foxing to front and
rear; good copy £12.00 Keyword: Prussia; Germany; royalty;Catalogues:
Royalty [22828]
Gollwitzer, Helmut. Unwilling Journey - A Diary from Russia. London: SCM Press, 1953. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Poor. 316 pages. The books which set out to present Russia as it is are few and far
between. Herr Gollwitzer's diary of his prison years is a triumphant example - The Observer. £15.00Keyword: Russia
Russian Politics PoliticalCatalogues: Political [6225] Gorbachev, Mikhail. Perestroika -
New Thinking for Our Country and The World. London: Fontana / Collins, 1988. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
tall. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0-00-637356-9. 5 x 7.75; 310pp; paperback; very good copy; updated to include Mikhail Gorbachev's
June 1988 speech to the party conference; £5.00Keyword: Russia;
perestroika; communist; Soviet Russia; politics; history; USSR; Catalogues: Political
[21512] Krassnoff, P. N.. From Double Eagle to Red
Flag. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1928. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.
Good Reading Copy / No Jacket. 851 pages. Rear hinge is shaken, otherwise book is complete. £10.00
Keyword: History Russia RussianCatalogues:
History [4865] Kuchumov, A.. Pavlovsk Palace & Park. Leningrad:
Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. 8.25 x 10.25" tall; 443pp
+ 1pp bibliography +2pp plans; illustrated cloth boards with brown/black titles to white spine; dustwrapper chipped to top
edge and small tear to back flap without loss, small chip to bottom edge of spine; fully illustrated in colour; a beautiful
publication translated from the Russian by V. Travlinsky and J. Hine with photographs by M. Velichko and designed by L. Yatsenko;
some fold out pages; £175.00Keyword: Leningrad; Pavlovsk;
history; Russia; palace; park; art; furniture;Catalogues:
History; Travel [21488] Kuznetsov, Edward. Prison Diaries. New York: Stein and
Day, 1975. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 0-8128-1810-5. 254
pages. Loosely inserted is a letter from the Committee for the Release of Soviet Jewish Prisoners addressed to Mr. Benyon
and signed by Barbara Oberman. Benyon was a leading political figure and owner of the Englefield Estate. £30.00Keyword: Russia Russian Political Prisoner Jew JewishCatalogues: Political [19999]
Lengyel, Jozsef. Confrontation. London: Peter Owen, 1973. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 0-7206-0093-6. 192 pages. The long-suppressed and revealing story of a traditional communist.
£10.00Keyword: Communism Communist Russia Russian Hungary Hungarian
PoliticalCatalogues: Political [7344] Lake, Jon. MiG-29 - Soviet Superfighter.
London: Osprey, 1989. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good 8.25 x 8.75";
127pp; glossy paged, pictorial paperback in very good condition; £5.00 Keyword: superfighter; mig; aircraft; Russia; Farnborough; aeroplane; Catalogues: Aircraft [ 4096]
Lockhart, R. H. Bruce. Memoirs of a British Agent. London: Putnam, 1937. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardback. Signed by Author. Good / Fair. 5.75 x 8.75"; 355pp; black/grey cloth with black; dustwrapper, chipped,
torn and with minor loss; signed to title page R. H. Bruce Lockhart - London, 18 Nov. 1938.; good copy; being an account of
the Author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918; £60.00
Keyword: spy; Russian; Moscow; London; England; Catalogues: Spy & Espionage
[10551] Manker, Ernst. People of Eight Seasons. Gothenburg: Wahlström
& Widstrand , 1963. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 91-46-19958-6. 11 x 11.5";
214 pages; red cloth with black decorations; g/g; fully illustrated; a fascinating look at life in Lapland; £30.00
Keyword: Lapland; Sweden; Russia; history; anthropology;Catalogues: Anthropology; History; Topography
[13326] Nicolson, Nigel. Napoleon 1812. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985. Paperback.
Very Good ISBN: 0-297-78710-1. An excellent summary of the campaign - Sunday Telegraph £8.00Keyword: Napoleon France French War RussiaCatalogues: History;
War [8742]
Nolan, E. H.. Illustrated History of The War Against Russia, The - 2 Volumes. London: James S. Virtue, 1857. 4to
- over 9¾" - 12" tall. Half-Leather. Good 6.5 x 10"; 812+772 pages; half red leather with red cloth
boards, black title labels with gilt, vol.1 title label loosely inserted to front, vol.2 label missing; raised bands to spine;
leather is scuffed; all page edges marbled; 65 engraved plates and 7 double page coloured maps; good tight clean copies that
would benefit from sympathetic restoration; shipping weight 4.2kg £200.00Keyword: war; Russia; England; France; Turkey; Sebastopol; Europe; Czar; Napoleon; Crimea; Queen Victoria; History;
Black Sea; Cambridge; army;Catalogues: History; War [16378] Pitcher, Harvey. Smiths of Moscow, The. Cromer: Swallow House
Books, 1984. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Signed by Author. Very Good ISBN:
0-905265-01-7. A story of Britons abroad. Signed by the author to title page. £50.00Keyword: Moscow History Russia Russian Trade Industry Victorians ExpatriateCatalogues:
History [5748] Rabbe, Alphonse and Duncan, Jonathan. History of Russia from the Foundation of
the Empire by Rourick to the close of the Hungarian War - Volume II. London: A & C Black, 1854. 12mo - over 6¾"
- 7¾" tall. Hardback. Good Reading Copy / No Jacket - as issued. 5 x 7.5"; 314pp; brown blind stamped cloth with gilt title and decorations to spine, faded;
half title page, frontispiece; illustrated title page, full title page and fold out map detached, but all correct and present.
6 further engravings, one detached; good clean copy in need of repair. £20.00Keyword:
Russia; history; Catalogues: History
[10124] Ryan, Cornelius. Last Battle, The. London:
New English Library, 1979. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 0-450-04433-5.
5.5 x 8.5"; 446 pages; black cloth with gilt title to spine; former owners signature to free front endpaper; dustwrapper;
g/g; £10.00 Keyword: war; Russia; Berlin; Stalingrad; Germany; Hitler; US;
America; United States; allied; soldiers; Catalogues: War
[22906] Samuel, Marcus and
Caplan, Leonard. Great Experiment, The - Results of Five-Year Plans. London: John Murray, 1935. First Edition. 12mo
- over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback. Inscribed By the Author. Good / Good. 133 pages. Inscribed to verso
of short title page - If you read it, don't laugh too much. Leonard Caplan. Spine of dustjacket is sunned. £25.00Keyword: Russia Russian Politics History Catalogues: Political
[5831]
Sobchak, Anatoly. For a New Russia - The Mayor of St. Petersburg's Own Story of the Struggle for Justice and Democracy. London:
Harper Collins, 1992. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0002550520. 6 x
9.5"; 191pp; black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, small crease to laminate on front; very good copy; £8.00Keyword: justice; democracy; St. Petersburg; Russia; soviet union; Leningrad; resistance; communist; Gorbachev;
Tbilisi; Lithuania; history;Catalogues: Political [5119] Sumner, B. H.. Survey of Russian History. London: Duckworth, 1945. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Fair. 5.75 x 8.75"; 464pp; blue cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, browned to spine
and chipped to edges; 5 maps and 16 illustrations, The basic influences which have shaped the Soviet Union and Russia;
£8.00Keyword: Russia; Soviet Union; USSR; U.S.S.R.; communism; war;
history; revolution;Catalogues: History [5197] Ustinov, Peter. My Russia. London: Macmillan, 1983. 4to - over 9¾"
- 12" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. 7.5 x 10"; 224pp; red cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; illustrated; very
good copy; £12.00 Keyword: Russia; history; Soviet; Ivan; Catherine; Napoleon;
Crimea; war; revolution; facism; communism;Catalogues:
History [10235] Vowles, Hugh P.. Ukraine and its People - The essential background of one on Europe's vital problems..
London: Chambers, 1939. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Card. Good 5 x 7.75"; 224 pages;
stiff card covers; maps to endpapers; some foxing; good; £15.00 Keyword: Ukraine; Russia; history; politics; Europe; slav; serf; freeman; religion; Cossack; peasant; revolt;Catalogues: History [22833] Wigmans, Johan H.. Ten Years in
Russia and Siberia. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1964. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardback. Good / Fair. 234 pages. This very human story of the battle to convince Russians that he was not a spy covers
ten years, and is dedicated to the unknown millions who passed through these camps of suffering. Dustjacket is torn with some
loss. £10.00Keyword:Keyword: Russia Russian Siberia Political Politics Prison War Catalogues: Political
[24594] Zamoyska, Priscilla. Arch Intriguer - A Biography
of Dorothea De Lieven. London: Heinemann, 1957. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 261 pages. An interesting insight into the political in the 19th century. All plates as listed.
Spine is lightly sunned. £10.00 Keyword: Biography Russia Russian
London History PoliticsCatalogues: Political
2. Antiques & Collecting; Art & Artists; Theatre & Performing Arts; Music; Museums &
Galleries [B 03042] No Author.
Peter Carl Faberge: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court ~ His Life and Work. . Comments:
Spring Books (1966] - Good - Hardback with non price-clipped Dustwrapper. No inscriptions, some shelf marking
to cut page edge bottom. Contents clean. Used - Good.£15.99 [12834] No Author. Property from the Fowler Museum. London:
Sotheby's, 1985. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated Laminated Card. Good A fascinating collection of
objects collected by Francis E. Fowler, Jr. collected over a period of 75 years, and sold in 1985 for the benefit of the University
of California, Los Angeles. Colour illustrations, some scuffing and creasing to cover. £10.00Keyword: Museum Fowler Los Angeles Silver Russian Clocks Watches Paperweights Ceramics Arms Armour Guns Pistols
CannonCatalogues: Antiques & Collecting [13657]
No Author. Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art. London: Sotheby's, 1988. 4to - over 9¾" -
12" tall. Illustrated Laminated Card. Very Good Catalogue of the sale held on Thursday 7th July 1988 in Moscow. Fully
illustrated. £20.00Keyword: Russian Avant-Garde Soviet Contemporary Art Artist PaintingCatalogues: Antiques & Collecting;
Art & Artists [24946] Arnold, Tom. Moscow State Circus of 1959 - Official Programme. London:
Tom Arnold, 1959. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paperback. Good Not paginated. Black and white
illustrations throughout. £6.00 Keyword:
Circus Russia Russian Wembley Catalogues: Theatre &
Performing Arts [1458] Camner, James and Constance. Ballet Quiz Book, The.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very
Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-312-06608-2. 6 x 8.5", 110pp, black cloth with silver title to spine; dustwrapper; includes
questions from George Balanchine, Fernando Bujones, Patrica McBride, and many other ballet greats. Such questions as who invented
the leotard and that Nijinsky was fired by his Russian company for wearing indecent costume (close fitting tights) Illustrated
throughout; very good; £5.00Keyword: Ballet; Quiz; Games
Questions; Catalogues: Music
[B 01917] Newmarch, R. Educational
Series of Russian Music in six progressive books, selected and edited by A. T. Weston ... With an introduction to the study
of Russian music by . [P. F.]. . Comments: J & W Chester (undated] - Fair - Paperback. Aged and dusty cover,
marked . No inscriptions , light tanned pages, due to paper quality. Collectible - Acceptable. £5.99 [24561] Tchekoff, Anton. Ivanoff.
London: Brentano's, 1924. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No
Jacket. 88 pages. Edited by Oliver M. Sayler. Bottom half of spine is detached from the front board, this does not affect
the contents. £5.00Keyword: Play Theatre Theater Russia RussianCatalogues: Theatre & Performing Arts [943] Voronikhina, L.. Hermitage,
The. Leningrad: Sovietsky Khudozhnik, 1965. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Good The
Hermitage in Leningrad ranks among the world's outstanding art museums; 5.75x8.5", 107pp, plus floor plans, with black
& white illustrations throughout. £5.00Keyword: Art; Hermitage
Russia History GuideCatalogues: Museums
& Gallaries
Topography; Travel; Geography [2253] No Author. Views of the U.S.S.R. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 4to - over 9¾"
- 12" tall. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. 9 x 11.75"; 271pp; grey cloth with gilt; black and white illustrations.
Not dated, but appears to be c1955 £12.00 Keyword: Russia;
photography;Catalogues: Topography [9595] Danziger, Nick. Danziger's
Travels - Beyond Forbidden Frontiers. London: Paladin, 1990. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.
Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0-586-08706-0. 5 x 7.75"; 426 pages; paperback; illustrated; some light creasing to front
cover and former owners inscription, otherwise very good; £6.00Keyword: travel; Asia; Turkey; Iran; Afghanistan; Chinese; Russian; war; guerrillas; Pakistan; China;Catalogues: Travel [9981] Ingram, Jim. I Found Adventure.
London: John
Long, 1961. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. 5.5 x 8.5"; 222
pages; blue boards with black title to spine, foxing to edges; dustwrapper, chipped to edges with some loss; 25 illustrations;
£18.00Keyword: travel; author; explorer; archaeologist; Manchester;
Russia; monastery; gold; Arctic; reindeer; Lapland; Spitzbergen; blind; cripple;Catalogues: Travel [9004] Kish,
Dr George. American Geographical Society - Russia - Around the World Program. New York: Doubleday, 1963. 8vo - over
7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Paperback. Very Good 5.5 x 8"; 64 pp; booklet; £5.00Keyword: Russia; Ukrainian; Byelorussian; Siberia; Soviet Union;Yenisy;Catalogues: Childrens; Geography
[4865] Kuchumov, A.. Pavlovsk Palace & Park. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback.
Good / Good. 8.25 x 10.25" tall; 443pp + 1pp bibliography +2pp plans; illustrated cloth boards with brown/black titles
to white spine; dustwrapper chipped to top edge and small tear to back flap without loss, small chip to bottom edge of spine;
fully illustrated in colour; a beautiful publication translated from the Russian by V. Travlinsky and J. Hine with photographs
by M. Velichko and designed by L. Yatsenko; some fold out pages; £175.00Keyword: Leningrad; Pavlovsk; history; Russia; palace; park; art; furniture;Catalogues: History; Travel [10551] Manker, Ernst. People of Eight Seasons. Gothenburg: Wahlström & Widstrand , 1963. 4to - over
9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 91-46-19958-6. 11 x 11.5"; 214 pages; red cloth with black
decorations; g/g; fully illustrated; a fascinating look at life in Lapland; £30.00Keyword: Lapland; Sweden; Russia; history; anthropology;Catalogues: Anthropology; History; Topography
[2408] Miller, Wright.
Cities of the World - Number 13 Leningrad. London: Dent, 1970. First Edition. Hardback. Good / Fair. ISBN: 0-460-17913-1. Illustrated with 16 pages of half-tone
plates and 2 line maps. Dustjacket spine lightly faded. £10.00Keyword: Cities City Leningrad RussiaCatalogues:
Travel
3. Nordic & Eastern European; Reference;
Nature [23908] Akhmanova, O. S. And Wilson, Elizabeth A. M.. Russian English Dictionary. Moscow: Russian Language Publishers, 1978. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾"
- 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 520 pages. 25,000 words approximately. £10.00Keyword: Dictionary Russia Russian EnglishCatalogues:
Reference; Nordic & Eastern European [21545] Golikov A. N. et al. Zhivotnie i Rastenila
Zaliva Petra Velikogo - Animals and Plants From the Gulf of Peter the Great, Sea of Japan. Leningrad: Nauka, 1976.
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback. Good 361 pages. Russian text throughout. Black and white illustrations.
Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Russian. Pictures available. £30.00Keyword: Animals Plants Gulf Japan Sea NatureCatalogues:
Nature; Nordic & Eastern European [21546] Lambrev. Prof. Dr. Zhivko. Zhivot, Starienie, Smrt. Poreditsa Chovek't I Prirodata - 7 - Life, Ageing and Death
. Relationship of Man and Nature - 7. Sofia: Nauka, 1979. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good 187 pages. Russian text throughout.
Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Russian. Pictures available. £10.00Keyword: Life Ageing Death MedicalCatalogues:
Medical; Nordic & Eastern European [23912] Lindberg, G. U.. Families of the Fishes of the World - A Check List and a Key. Leningrad: Nauka, 1971. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 469 pages. Majority of text is in Russian, although there is an English index. Green boards
with silver titles and illustration of a fish to front board. £50.00Keyword: Fish Sea OceanCatalogues: Reference;
Nordic & Eastern European [796] Plicky, Karla. Praha ve fotografi Karla Plicky. Prague: Nase Vojsko, 1955. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardback. Good
/ Good. 10 x 13.25"; 221pp plus index in Czech, Russian, English and French; 224 sepia photographs; £50.00Keyword: Czech Photography Prague PrahaCatalogues:
Nordic & Eastern European Travel; Photography; Topography
[23914] Vinogradov, M. E.. Oceanology - Biology of the Ocean
- Vol. 1. Moscow: Nauka, 1977. First
Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Poor. 398 pages. Russian text throughout. Dustjacket
is scuffed with small tears. Biological structure of the ocean. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. £20.00Keyword: Fish Sea Ocean ResearchCatalogues:
Science; Reference; Nordic & Eastern European
4. Novels: ( Spy & Espionage; History; Adventure;
Sci-Fi & Fantasy; Erotica )
[B 01788] Aksakov, Serghei. A Russian
Gentleman. . Comments: Folio Society (1976] - Almost As New - Hardback without slipcase. No inscriptions
. Used - Like New.£5.99 [5733] Allbeury, Ted. Special Collection, The. London: Peter Davies,
1975. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-432-00423-8.
Brown cloth with gilt title. This is the first UK edition. £80.00Keyword: Spy; Germany; Russia; Moscow; agent; British; war; espionage; novel;Catalogues:
Spy & Espionage
[11384]
Bainbridge, Beryl. Winter Garden. London: Flamingo,
1985. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0006541283. 5 x 7.75"; 157 pages; paperback;
good; £4.00Keyword: erotica; thriller; Russia; novel;Catalogues: Erotica; Novel
[13989] Baumann,
Hans. Dimitri and the False Tsars. Brockhampton,
1972. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0-340-15924-3. Translated
by Anthea Bell. Dustjacket is chipped and rubbed to edges. £15.00Keyword: History Russia NovelCatalogues:
Novel; History
[18664] Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich. Country Doctor's Notebook, A. London: Collins Harvill, 1990. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
Good ISBN: 0-00-271064-1. "Wryly funny - and fascinating" - Sunday Times. £5.00Ke yword: Novel Russia Russian
Doctor MedicalCatalogues: Novel
[24281] Bunin, Ivan. Shadowed Paths. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 12mo
- over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 453 pages. This is a collection of nine stories by
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) written at different times. £18.00Keyword: Novel
Russia RussianCatalogues: Novel
[13927] Chekhov, A.P.. Chekhov: The Early Stories, 1883-88. London: John Murray, 1982. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0-7195-3936-6. The translators have, for the first time, grouped the stories chronologically,
sketching their biographical background in an Introduction and providing Notes and a Select Bibliography. Spine of dustjacket
is slightly sunned. £30.00Keyword: Writer RussiaCatalogues: Novel
[8542]
Denis, John. Moscow Horse, The. London: Futura, 1978. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.
Good ISBN: 0-7088-1454-9. 4.25 x 7"; 313 pages; paperback; good copy; £4.00 Keyword: suspense; adventure; spies; Russia; KGB; novelCatalogues: Adventure
[4888] Feifer, George. Moscow Farewell. New York: Viking, 1976. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Good. 5.75 x 9.25"; 446pp; blue boards, black spine with blue; dustwrapper,
chipped to edges; very good copy; £6.00Keyword: Russia; Moscow; university; student; love; romance; secret; novel;Catalogues: Novel
[11767] Forbes, Bryan. Quicksand. London: Arrow, 1998. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0749311797. Framed for
murder and exiled in Russia, Alec Hillsden faces a bleak future until an offer of amnesty arrives..... At a price; Top edge
is marked, not affecting contents £3.00Keyword: Russia;
amnesty; murder;Catalogues: Murder,
Mystery & Crime
[4887] Gordon, Donald. Leap in
the Dark. London: Hodder and Stoughton,
1970. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 0340128666. 5.25 x 8";
221pp; black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; very good copy; £12.00Keyword: aircraft; aerplane; supersonic; Russia; Tupelov; Canada; Thriller; novel;Catalogues: Adventure
[7282] Griswold, George. Pinned
Man, The. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode,
1956. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Good - Priceclipped. 5 x 7.5";
192pp; red cloth with black; dustwrapper with small closed tear to top front edge, priceclipped; good copy; £12.00Keyword: spies; inteligence; American; British; Russian; Swiss; Switzerland; espionage;Catalogues: Spy & Espionage
[17522] Haldeman, Joe. Tool of the Trade. London: Victor Gollancz, 1987. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardback. Good / Good. ISBN: 0-575-04118-8. "If there was a Fort Knox of the science fiction writers who really
matter, we'd have to lock Haldeman up there" - Stephen King £5.00Keyword: Science Fiction Sci-Fi America Russia UltrasonicCatalogues: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
[8663] Jones, Dickens. Rubicon One - Heart stopping suspense as the world reaches Midnight. London: Arrow, 1985. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.
Very Good ISBN: 0-09-938640-2. 4.25 x 7"; 309 pages; paperback; very good; £4.00Keyword: Armageddon; Kremlin; Moscow; Russia; America; intelligence; CIA;Catalogues: Adventure
[24327] Konsalik, Heinz G.. Doctor of Stalingrad. London: Macdonald
Futura Publishers, 1980. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0-7088-1959-1.
272 pages. Camp5110/47. Some fought for freedom. Most prayed for death. £20.00 Keyword: War Germany Germany Russia Russian StalingradCatalogues:
Novel; War
[B 04053] Moorcock, Michael. The Russian Intelligence. Savoy
Books, 1980. ISBN: 9780861300273. Spine: Uncreased; Spine Ends: V.Good; Book: V.Good; Book Edges: marked at top edge; Pages:
Tanned; Inscriptions: none. Very Good. Paperback. £1.99
[9371] Smith, Jack Nickle. Operation Red Poppy. Cheddar: Tallis, 1985. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good.
ISBN: 0-284-98658-5. 5 x 7.5"; 158 pages; blue cloth with gilt title to spine; dustwrapper; vg/vg; this book has been
inscribed on the title page 'For Jennifer & Pete with best wishes - Jack Smith; a post-it note written by the author states
- 'Creative' bit starts P101 - Note 'Gene & Alison Welch' are the names of our American guests - as I said Gene was in
CIA. This is light hearted froth - 'NEMESIS' is serious!; The free front end paper has a label which reads 'Nemesis by Jack
Nickle Smith - Robert Hale Ltd. Jan 1994 14.95 A Thriller, at the edge of the label the author has put an exclamation mark.
£50.00Keyword: America; Russia; espionage; spy; spies; British; Scotland;
CIA; KGB; MI6;Catalogues: Spy & Espionage
[23981] Tolstoy, Count Lev N.. Moscow Acquaintance - Vol. III - The Snow-Storm, Domestic Happiness, Miscellanies.
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 471 pages. Red cloth with gilt title to spine.
Three illustrations as called for. £60.00Keyword: Novel
Russia RussianCatalogues: Novel
[24007] Turgenev, Ivan. Hunter's Sketches, A. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Poor. 454 pages. A number of realistic miniatures of life under the system of serfdom...
Dustjacket has loss to top right corner. £10.00Keyword: Novel
Russia RussianCatalogues: Novel
[4994] Winnett, Ralph. Hurricane Season. London: Harrap, 1958. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardback. Good / Good. 5.5 x 8"; 288pp; red cloth with white; dustwrapper; top edge lightly foxed, otherwise a
good copy; £10.00Keyword: Russian; America; Southern; newspaper; journalist; novel;Catalogues: Novel
[10604] Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. Wild Berries. London: Macmillan, 1984. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good.
ISBN: 0-333-37559-9. 5.5 x 9"; 296 pages; blue cloth with gilt title; dustwrapper; page edges slightly browned and former
owners name to free front endpaper, otherwise vg/vg; translated by Antonina W. Bouis; £15.00Keyword: Siberia; taiga; primitive; wilderness; scientists; Moscow; mineral; Russia; novel;
Catalogues:
Novel
5. Literature; Poetry [13200] Chekhov, Anton. Russian Master and Other Stories, The (World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0-19-281680-2.
These stories are translated with an introduction by Ronald Hingley. £5.00Keyword: Literature Chekov Russia RussianCatalogues: Literature [9933] Moore, Harry T. & Parry, Albert. Twentieth-Century
Russian Literature;. London: Heinnemann, 1976. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0-435-39402-9.
5.25" x 8.5"; 194pp; paperback; vg/-; preface by Harry T. Moore; £8.00Keyword: literature; poetry; war; Russia; theatre; soviet;Catalogues: Literature
[24377] Obolensky, Dimitri.
Russian Verse, The Penguin Book of. London:
Penguin, 1962. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good 444 pages. The index lists
56 of Russia's finest poets. Russian and English text. £25.00Keyword: Poetry Poems Verse Russia RussianCatalogues:
Penguin; Poetry [23948] Tolstoy, L.N. ( Tolstoi, Lev ). Short Stories. ill. Basov, V.. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 12mo - over 6¾" -
7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 412 pages. Six short stories from Tolstoy - Two Hussars, Yardstick, A Happy
Married Life, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kreutzer Sonato and After the Ball. £10.00Keyword: Russia
Russian TolstoyCatalogues: Literature [5911] Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. London: Penguin, 1972. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good
/ Slipcase. 4.25 x 7"; 1443pp in 2 vols.; contained in chipped slipcase, with small tear to top edge; good copy;
£6.00Keyword: Russia; war; peace; novel;Catalogues: Classic; Penguin
6. Reference: Technical; Pets [24955]
Chernoukhin, A. E.. Russian English Technical Dictionary. Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1971. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 1027 pages. 80,000 terms in Russian translated into English. Dustjacket has closed tear to rear.
£20.00 Keyword: Dictionary Reference Russia Russian Technical Catalogues:
Reference; Technical [2126]
Gordon, John. Borzoi, The. London: John
Bartholomew, 1973. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. 7.75 x 9.25";
112pp; red cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; nice clean copy; illustrated; £18.00Keyword: dogs; canine; Borzoi; Russia Catalogues: Pets
7. Children’s: Folktales; Geography [9004] Kish, Dr George. American
Geographical Society - Russia - Around the World Program. New York: Doubleday, 1963. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Paperback. Very Good 5.5 x
8"; 64 pp; booklet; £5.00Keyword: Russia; Ukrainian; Byelorussian;
Siberia; Soviet Union;Yenisy; Catalogues: Childrens; Geography [17601] Magnus, Leonard A.. Russian Folk-Tales. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1915. Fifth
Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. ISBN: B0014M25V0 . Contains 73 Russian
tales. Green cloth with decorations. 350 pages. £75.00Keyword: Russia
Russian Folk Tales Fables SlavCatalogues: Myths &
Legend
8.
Olympic Related
[768] Pawson, Tony.
Observer on Soccer, The - An Anthology of the Best Soccer Writing. London: Unwin Hyman Limited, 1989. First Edition.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0-04-440533-2. 6.5 x 9.5";
294pp; blue cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; a very clean copy; 'a selection from the sports pages of a Sunday newspaper which
has reported and commented on the game for over a hundred years'; £10.00Keyword: sport; football; soccer; cup final; olympic; Eton; goal;
[19854] Graves,
Robert. Greek Myths. London: Quality Paperbacks Direct, 1992. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
tall. Paperback. Good 256 pages. In The Beginning - The Olympians - Of Heroes, Gods and Men - Minos and Theseus - Thebes and
Mycenae - Heracles - The Argonauts and Medea. £5.00Keyword: Greek Greece History
[23458] No Author. Cuisine Au Rhum Par Olympe, La. Collection
Negrita, 1981. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 63 pages. French
text throughout. Business card from Le Restaurant D'Olympe loosely inserted to front. £12.00 Keyword: Cookery Cooking Food Recipes French France [23458] No Author. Cuisine Au Rhum Par Olympe, La. Collection Negrita, 1981. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 63 pages. French text throughout. Business card from Le Restaurant D'Olympe
loosely inserted to front. £12.00Keyword: Keyword: Cookery Cooking Food Recipes French France
9. Skating [11631] Miller, A. Austin & Parry, M.. Everyday Meteorology. London: Hutchinson, 1967. Hardback. Good / Fair. 270 pages; black cloth with gilt titles; dustwrapper with
sellotape to edges; owners name to free front endpaper; good; £7.00Keyword: meteorology;
thames; flood; stains; weather; reading; skating; clouds; thunder; tornado; westmorland; fog; avalanche; anticyclone; typhoon; [20053] No Author. 2003 World Figure Skating Championships.
Washington, DC: 2003. First Edition.
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paperback. Good Full details of all the events and of those taking part.
£14.00Keyword: Skating Ice Sport [21261]
Siposs, George. Model Car Racing by Radio Control. Watford: Model & Allied Publications, 1976. Reprint. 8vo -
over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated Card. Good / No Jacket - as issued. ISBN: 0-85344-047-6. 86 pages.
Everything you need to know about radio controlled racing cars. £4.00
[21263] Craven - Carleton, John William. Walker's Manly Exercises
and Rural Sports. London: H. G. Bohn, 1855. Ninth Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardback.
Good Reading Copy / No Jacket - as issued. 264 pages plus index and publishers advertisements. Sailing, rowing, driving, riding,
hunting, racing, skating, swimming, vaulting, climbing, &c. &c. Contents shaken and loose, but complete. Top edge
of spine is torn. £50.00Keyword: Sport Exercise Skating
Maps & Skiing [24034] No Author. Kandersteg und Undumbegung. Berne: Kümmerly & Frey, 12mo
- over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good Fold out colour map - 60cms x 56cms (24x 22 inches) Wonderful
colour map. Vergrösserung der 1:50000 mit Bewilliung der Landestopographie vom 7.2.64. Covers are damaged without loss,
but map is complete and bright. £12.00Keyword: Map Switzerland Ski Skiing Mountains
10.
Russian COOKERY
[21346] Chamberlain, Lesley. Russian, Polish and German Cooking. London: Hermes House, 2008. Reprint.
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated Laminated Card. Very Good ISBN: 1-84309-886-5. 256 pages. The very
best of Eastern European cuisine, with more than 185 delicious recipes shown in 750 photographs. Overseas customer please
note this book has a shipping weight of 1.5kg, additional shipping charges will apply. £10.00 Keyword: Cookery Cooking Food Recipes Russia Russian Poland Polish
German Germany [16658] Patten, Marguerite. Make a Menu Book. London: Paul Hamlyn,
1967. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Poor. ISBN: B0013K74R8. The mind boggles
- New-every-day dishes - over a million different meals to choose from! Starters, main course and afters are on each page,
just turn the pages to find the right combination for you - how about Mimosa Eggs, followed by Russian Rosy Pork followed
by St. Clement's Cloud? Dust jacket is torn with loss to top front edge. £10.00Keyword: Cookery Cooking Food Recipes [21495] Petit, Alphonse. Gastronomie
En Russie, La. Paris: Chez L'Auteur
et Émile Mellier, 1860. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full-Leather. Ex-Libris
Alan Davidson. Very Good / No Jacket - as issued. 275 pages. Green leather with gilt title and decorations. A treatise containing
practical information on Russian cookery, with a French-Russian vocabulary for provisions, technical terms, utensils, and
accessories. French text throughout. Vicaire 677, Oberlé 251, Bitting 366. Alan Davidson was a British diplomat and
historian, but best known for writing and editing on food and gastronomy. £500.00Keyword: Cookery Cooking Food Recipes Russia Russian
[23903] Azarovim, V. et al. Kazakhskaia Kukhnia: Sovremenniie
I Traditsionniie Blyuda. Alma-Ata (Almaty):
Kaindar, 1981. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 188 pages.
Kazakh cooking - Contemporary and Traditional Dishes. Russian text throughout with colour illustrations. £25.00
[23915] Bagdasarov, A. - Vanukevich, A. - Khudaishururov, T.. Turkmen Cookery. Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan:
1981. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Good. 173 pages. Russian text throughout.
Colour illustrations. £50.00
[23911] Charlandjieva,
Dr. M.. 20 Years Institute of Nutrition (Bibliographic Materials) 1959 - 1978. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
1979. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 414 pages. Bulgarian/Russian
and English text. Top corner of rear board has been damaged, not affecting contents. £30.00
[23924] Druzhinina, L. - Editor. Blyuda Litovskoi Kukhni - Lithuanian Dishes. Moscow:
Planeta, 1974. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Paperback. Good A collection of 15 recipe cards contained within
a card folder. Russian text throughout. £5.00
[21531] Granev, N. A.. Pokupateliu o plodakh i Ovoshchakh - How to Buy Fruit and Vegetables. Moscow:
Ekonomika, 1979. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Good 78 pages. Russian text.
Sorry we cannot offer any more details, but we do not speak or read Russian. Pictures available. £8.00
[23898] Gussi, P. P. et al. Tatarskaia Kulinariia - Tatar Cooking. ill.
Shamsutdinov, R. G.. Khazan - Kazan: Tatarskoe Knizhnoye Izdatel'stvo, 1981. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 285 pages. Illustrated boards with grey cloth spine. Top right edge of pages 225-266 have
been bumped, but this does not affect the text. Colour illustrations to 16 pages at end of book. Russian text throughout.
£20.00
[23905] Ivashura, A. J.. Milk and Life. Moscow:
Kolos, 1976. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Paperback. Good 187 pages. Russian text throughout.
Would appear to be a book about feeding children. £15.00
[23896]
Koshcheev, A. K.. Dikorastushchie S"edobnye Rasteniya v Nashem Pitanii - The Migration of Foodstuffs and Cookery. Moscow:
Pishchevaia Promishchlennosti, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good /
No Jacket. 254 pages. Lists almost a hundred wild plants used as food. Colour illustrations with Russian text throughout.
£50.00
[23887] Kreps, E. M.. Posledniaia Ekspeditsiia
"Vitiazia" - Fianl Expedition of the Vityaz. Moscow: Mysl, 1983. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Paperback. Good 109 pages. Russian text throughout. Black and white photographs to center pages. Sorry can not offer
any more detail as we do not speak Russian, but can supply photographs. This expedition established that polychaeta, cephalopoda
and lamellibran chiate mollusks were found at a depth of 6,000 meters. £30.00
[23902] Kudian, A. N.. Khoziaike o Produktakh Pitaniia. Minsk:
Urapzhai, 1978. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 158 pages. Illustrated boards
with grey cloth binding to spine. Russian text throughout. This would appear to be a cookery book published by a major producer
of frozen food - as we do not speak or understand Russian, please do not accept that as a correct translation.
£20.00
[21538] Kuzminov, V. T. and Morozov, A. T..
Miasnie Biluda - Meat Dishes. Moscow: Ekonomika, 1974. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
tall. Paperback. Good 174 pages. Russian text throughout. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read
Russian. Pictures available. £10.00
[21537] Kvinikadze,
Ye - Compiler. Retsepti Gruzinskoi Kukhni - Georgian Cooking Recipes. 1990. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Illustrated Laminated Card. Good 63 pages. Russian text throughout. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do
not speak or read Russian. Pictures available. £8.00
[23918] Melnishka, R. - Editor. Hranene, Fizichesko Razvitie i Zdravno Sistoianie na Bulgarskia
Narod - Nutrition, Physical Development and Health Status of Bulgarian People. ill. Danov, T. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, 1972. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. 322 pages. Black
and white illustrations. Appears to be a very technical book about the health standards in Bulgaria in the 1970's. Russian
(Bulgarian) text throughout. £30.00
[23900] Nazarenko, L. I. et al. Kazakhskaia Kukhnia - Sovremenniye i Traditsionniye Blyuda - Kniga 1. Tashkent:
Kainar, 1979. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 142 pages. The dustjacket
front flap is in English, French and German, but the text is Russian throughout. The Kazakh national cuisine is rich in variety
of dishes. Kumys, shubat, kasy, irimshik, airan, kaimak, kuurdak, kurt, baursaks... this book contains 300 names of dishes
of the modern Kazakh cuisine. This is one of a series, and we have Book 3 - Kniga 3 in stock. £20.00
[23901] Nazarenko, L. I. et al. Kazakhskaia Kukhnia
- Sovremenniye i Traditsionniye Blyuda - Kniga 3. Alma-Ata (Almaty): Kainar, 1981. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾"
- 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 142 pages. Russian text throughout. We also have volume 1 - Kniga 1 in stock.
£20.00
[21528] Nikolaev, A. M. and Malshoko, V.
F.. Tekhnologiia sira - Dlia Kadrov Massov'ikh Professi - Cheese Technology by members of the profession) . Moscow:
Pishchevaia Promishlennost, 1977. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / No Jacket.
336 pages. Russian text throughout. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Russian. Pictures available.
£40.00
[23893] No Author. Blyuda
Iz Morskih Ryb - Dishes from the Sea. Kiev, Ukraine: 1971. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Paperback.
Good Reading Copy A collection of 23 cookery cards (index calls for 24) contained in card wallet. All relate to fish recipes.
Russian text throughout. £5.00
[21539]
No Author. Kazakhskaia Kukhnia - Kazakh Cooking. Nord, 1981. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Hardback. Good / Good. 148 pages. Russian text throughout. The spine does have number 2, which may indicate that this is volume
2 of a series. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Russian. Pictures available.
£15.00
[23897] No Author. Sbornik Materialov Po Proizvodstvu
Formavannih Farshevih Kulinarnih Izdelii Iz Ribii I Neribnih Objektov Promisla - Cast I. Moscow: Ministerstvo Ribnogo
Khoziaistva SSSR, 1989. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Good 190 pages. Volume
One: Materials relating to the manufacture of products created from fish and non-fish sources - USSR Ministry of Fisheries.
Russian type-written text throughout. £15.00
[23917] No Author. Tainii Shchedrogo Stola - Secrets of a Lavish Table. Dnipropetrovsk,
Ukraine: Promin, 1978. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 254
pages. Colour illustrations to centre pages. Illustrated boards with cloth spine. Russian (Ukraine) text throughout.
£20.00
[23916] No Author. Savoury and Wholesome Food,
Book on. Moscow: Pishcepromizdat, 1952. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardback. Good
/ No Jacket. 399 pages. Russian text throughout. Colour illustrations. Photographs available. £70.00
[23920] No Author. Kniga o Vkusnoi i Zdorovoi Pishche
- A Book of Tasty and Healthy Food. Moscow: Pishchevaia Promishchlennosti, 1978. Seventh Edition. 4to - over 9¾"
- 12" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 382 pages. Blue buckram boards with gilt title and white decoration to front.
Russian text throughout. Colour illustrations. £350.00
[23894] Novozhenov, Yu. M. And Tityunnik, A. I.. Kulinarhaia Kharakteristika Blyd - The Dish: Cooking
Characteristics. Moscow: 1982. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Good
215 pages. This manual is intended for students of vocational schools that train the waiters. The book can also be used in
the training of personnel in catering...... Russian text throughout. £10.00
[23923] Pakhuridze, N. - General Editor. Ribniye Blyuda - Fish Dishes.
Moscow: Planeta, 1978. Reprint. Paperback. Good A collection of 15 recipe cards contained within a card folder. Russian
text throughout. £5.00
[23922] Pakhuridze, N.
- General Editor. Ribniye Blyuda - Fish Dishes. Moscow: Planeta, 1978. Reprint. Paperback. Good A collection of 15
recipe cards contained within a card folder. Russian text throughout. £5.00
[21534] Pakhuridze, N. - General Editor. Bliuda Gruzinskoi Kukhni - Little
Dishes of Georgian Cooking. Moscow: 1972. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Paperback. Good 15 recipe cards
enclosed in a wallet. Russian text throughout. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Russian.
Pictures available. One card does have a handwritten note, not affecting text. £5.00
[23921] Pakhuridze, N. - General Editor. Blyuda Uzbekskoi Kukhni - Uzbek
Dishes. Moscow: Planeta, 1973. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Paperback. Good A collection of 15 recipe
cards contained within a card folder. Russian text throughout. £5.00
[21526] Parfentieva, T. R. and Starodubtseva, Z. A.. Miasnie i ribnie tovari. Tovarovedenie
- Meat and Fish Commodities. Moscow: Ekonomika, 1979. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. 240 pages. Text in Russian throughout. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do
not speak or read Russian. Pictures available. £30.00
[21533] Petrov, Ljubomir et al. B'lgarska Natsionalna Kuhnia - Bulgarian National Cooking. Sofia:
Zemizdat, 1978. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated Boards. Good / No Jacket. 542
pages. Good clean book. Bulgarian text throughout. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Bulgarian.
Pictures available. £25.00
[21544]
Pohlebkin, V. V.. Natsionaln'ie Kuhni Nashix Narodov - The National Cuisine of Our Peoples. Moscow: Pishchevaia Promishlennost,
1983. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good 302 pages. Illustrated. Russian text throughout. Sorry
we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Russian. Pictures available. £20.00
[23892] Pokhlebkin, Vilyam Vasilevich. Zanimatelinaia
Kulinariia - Cooking Anecdotes. Moscow: 1983. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Good
127 pages. Russian text throughout. Sorry we can not offer any further information, but will supply photographs if required.
£15.00
[23913] Pokhlebkin, Vilyam Vasilevich. Secrets
of Good Cuisine (Cooking). Moscow: Molodaia Gvardia, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 190 pages. Illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Russian text throughout.
£30.00
[23891] Relidman, I. A.. Zarubezhnaia Kukhnia
- Foreign Cooking. Kiev, Ukraine: Reklama, 1980. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Illustrated Boards. Good / No Jacket. 191 pages. Text would appear to be in Byelorussian. Apologies, we are not able to offer
any more details, but will supply photographs. £20.00
[23909] Reutovich, T. V. - Compiler. Cuisines of the People of the U.S.S.R.. Minsk: Polymia,
1981. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 302 pages. Illustrated
laminated boards with cloth spine. Russian text throughout. £20.00
[21530] Sabanieev, L. P.. Ribi Rosii - V Dvukh Tomakh. Tom Perv'ii - The Fish of
Russia in Two Volumes - Volume One. Moscow: 1982. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.
Good / No Jacket. 382 pages. Reprinted from 1892 edition. Line drawings throughout. Russian text. Sorry we cannot offer any
more details, as we do not speak or read Russian. Pictures available. £15.00
[23889] Shabikina, L. V.. Ovoshchi k Stolu - Fruit at the Table. Alma-Ata
(Almaty): Kainar, 1979. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated Laminated Boards. Good / No Jacket.
199 pages. Russian text throughout. Sorry we do not speak Russian, but can supply photographs. £20.00
[21542] Shapiro, D. K - General Editor. Plodii i
Ovshchi v Pitanil Cheloveka - Fruit and Vegetables for Feeding Mankind. Minsk: Uradzhai, 1983. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Illustrated Laminated Boards. Good 208 pages. Colour illustrations. Sorry we cannot offer any more
details, as we do not speak or read Russian/Belorussian. Pictures available. £15.00
[23888] Simonov,Georgii Petrovich and Manik, Stepan Il'ich . Lesnye rasteniia:
Griby-makromitsetii, lishainiki, Mokhoobraznye. Kishniev: Shtinntsa, 1987. 4to - over 9¾" - 12"
tall. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. 198 pages. Russian text throughout. Monograph on Forest Plants from the Plant Kingdom of Moldavia.
Sorry we do not speak Russian, but can supply photographs. £30.00
[21541] Smolniki, K. 200 Retsepti Za Prigotviane Na Lastia Ot Ribi - 200 Recipes
on how to Prepare Fish for Eating. Sofia: Tekhnika, 1976. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
Good Reading Copy 126 pages. Bulgarian text throughout. Shows signs of previous damp, but this has not affected the text.
Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read Russian/Bulgarian. Pictures available. £10.00
[23907] Sokolov, V. E. - Editor. Dictionary of Animal
Names in Five Languages - Fishes. Moscow: Russky Yazyk Publishers, 1989. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. 733 pages. Approximately 11700 names of fishes, in Latin, Russian, English,
German and French. £25.00
[23919]
Tsolova, M and Stoilova, V.. Izpolzuvane na Zelenchutsite i Plodovete v Domakinstvoto - Use of Vegetables in the Home. Sofia:
Zemizdat, 1970. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. Good / Fair. 498 pages. Russian
(Bulgarian) text throughout. Colour plates. £30.00
[23899] Valkanov, A.. Cherno More; Sbornik - The Black Sea, A Selection. Varna - Bulgaria:
Georgi Bakalov, 1978. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Reading Copy / Poor. 635 pages.
Front section of this book is devoted to the sea life of the Black Sea, which is presumably why there is Alan Davidson's bookplate
to front pastedown. The majority of the book is given over to the history and tourism of the area. Bulgarian language throughout.
This book is complete, but most pages are detached from the spine. £20.00
[21532] Vogomolov, T. S. And Krasheninkova, A. G.. Okeanicheskaia riba v domashniem Pitanii
- Ocean Fish for Domestic Nourishment. Moscow: Pishchevaia Promishlennost, 1971. 64mo - up to 3" tall. Paperback.
Ex-Libris Alan Davidson. Good 94 pages. Text in Russian. Sorry we cannot offer any more details, as we do not speak or read
Russian. Pictures available. £15.00
[21543]
Volotnikova, V. A., et al. Belorusskaia Kukhnia - Belorussian Cookery. Minsk: 1977. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" tall. Illustrated Laminated Boards. Good 135 pages. Colour illustrations. Sorry we cannot offer any more details,
as we do not speak or read Russian/Belorussian. Pictures available. £15.00
[23904] Voroblyeva, L. I.. Ribniie Blyuda - Fish Dishes. Moscow: 1971. First
Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good / Poor. 302 pages. Russian text throughout. Alan
Davidson book plate to front pastedown. £25.00
[23895]
Zakhariev, Z.. Lastia Ot Riba - Blyuda Iz Rybyi - Fish Dishes. Sofia and Moscow: Tekhnika and Pishchevai Prom'ishlennost,
1975. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Good Reading Copy 69 pages. Appears to be Bulgarian and
Russian text. Published 1970 in Sofia and then in Moscow in 1975. Front cover is detached, contents complete and clean.
£15.00
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