Russian Icons Published in Cooperation with the Patriarchate of Moscow por Ivanov, Father Vladimir - 1988

London: Paul Elek, 1975. Book. Illus. by Klaus G., Photographer. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition in English. 13" x 9 3/8". 536 pages, 420 plates, 86 in full colour, plans, map. The first definitive work on early Russian architecture, covering the period between the end of the tenth century and the latter part of the seventeenth century. Glossary, bibliography. Hb in price-clipped dw, handsome engraved bookplate on front pastedown, dw has small area of surface loss (approximately 1" x ½") towards the top of the spine, some delamination, otherwise a very good copy..

London: Elek. 356pp hardback, well illustrated in colour and bw,folio, heavy substantial item, may incur additional delivery charge, please enquire, very good in a very good wrapper . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975.

Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Book is in NF condition with light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & spine, bumping to spine ends, scuffing to rear cover else still bright, intact and whole.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.

Moscow, 1951. COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 10 1/4 inches tall volume with original navy flexible cloth covered boards, cover with blindstamped image of apple, and gilt title; gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers with sepia orchard scene. 130 black & white figures throughout text, and 32 colored plates of apples and pears. Corners and spine ends rubbed, very good. IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Michurin was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins, cultivating methods in connection with the natural course of ontogenesis, directing the process of predominance, evaluation and selection of seedlings, and acceleration of the process of… Ler mais

Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1966. COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS OF APPLES AND PEARS DEVELOPED IN THE USSR DURING THE KRUSCHEV AND BREZHNEV ADMINISTRATIONS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed gilt images of apple and pear and gilt title to cover and spine; 255 pages with 64 colored plates, each picturing 2 to 4 varieties. Corners bumped, marginal browning to endpapers, no dust jacket; very good. Text in Russian. From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow Society of Nature Experimenters.

New York, William Morrow & Co, 1992, hardcover, 236 pp, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the half-title page, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight. tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge bumps, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. A young woman writes candidly of a choice she feels she must make, between her country's uncertain future, and the promise of life in the West. Translation by Antonina W. Bouis. ISBN 9780688104160

Leningradakogo: Univ. Nauchnoi Bibliotaki Im. Gor'kogo, 1967. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Russian text, with Latin 42, (18)pp. Bibliography. Suite of 18 b&w plates. Bound in white cloth boards, with white illustrated dust jacket. Light wear to book and jacket. Pencil notes on rear panel; Library bar-code sticker on rear endpaper. Very Good/Very Good.

Garden City NY, Doubleday and Company, 1959, hardcover, 261 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, small light scuffs, slight wear to flap folds, spot of dampstain to heel of spine, signs of archival tape reinforcement to head of spine, closed tears to bottom of flaps, displays nicely in new Brodart sleeve. An ebullient memoir from the flamboyant musician, composer, and Academy Award winner, filled with personal stories and delightful anecdotes of the great figures in Russian, European, and American music and film. Illustrated with 16 black-&-white plates. Index appended.

Paris: Lavauzelle, 1986. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Paris: Lavauzelle, 1986. 4to., 9 1/4" x 12", 347pp., illustrated throughout with color and b/w photographs. Text in French. Light dust spotting on top edge of page block. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.