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    • Literature and Biography

    A selection of mostly out-of-print books on literature, including some biographies and memoirs on nobility, statesmen, arts and dance and more. 

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      White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923.

      White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

      White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923. Olga Illyn. An enthralling memoir of the onset of the Russian Revolution and the path of defeat for the White Army. Illyn was a young bride and her husband a White Army officer and as members of the upper class...

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    • Anton Chekhov: The Voice of Twilight Russia.

      Anton Chekhov: The Voice of Twilight Russia.

      Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova. Anton Chekhov: The Voice of Twilight Russia. NY: Columbia University Press, 1960. Originally published in 1937. 238 pages, bibliography, index. Softcover with some page tanning, otherwise very good. 1 copy only...

      $12.00
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      Dear Me [Peter Ustinov]

      Peter Ustinov. Dear Me. Ustinov's 1977 autobiography is spellbinding and hilarious. It spans his extraordinary career (1921-2004) as actor, comedian, humorist, stage designer and playwright, film star and director, including opera. MA (Boston): Little,...

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    • Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.

      Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. [1943]

      Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.  Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1943. Hardcover. 1st edition, stated. Missing dustjacket. Good condition. Tan cloth binding rubbed at the extremities, light soil to...

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      Humanity Uprooted (Maurice Hindus)

      Humanity Uprooted (Maurice Hindus) 1931

       Maurice Hindus. Humanity Uprooted. Hindus (1891-1969), born in  Bolshoye Bykovo (today Belarus), came to the US in 1906. His father was a kulak (affluent peasants in the latter days of the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia and the early...

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      Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900

      Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900

      Mary King Waddington. (SIGNED on the tissue guard of the frontispiece in black ink by Waddington.) Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900. Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs. Mary Alsop King was an American author born in New York City...

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      Nikolay Leskov

      Nikolay Leskov

      K. A. Lantz. Nikolay Leskov. Leskov (1831-1895) was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer. This biography covers his life, who was an author whom Chekhov considered, in some respects, his teacher. With the publication of his...

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    • Seward's Folly [1924]

      Seward's Folly [1924]

      Seward's Folly. Edison Marshall. MA (Boston): Little, Brown & Co., 1924. First edition. 312 pages. Historical novel of the intrigues and machinations around the purchase of Alaska. In March of 1867 America signed a treaty with the Russian Empire...

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      The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday [1921]

      The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday [1921]

      The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday, being Some Random Reminiscences of a British Diplomat. Frederick Spencer Hamilton. First published in 1921, this is the 1923 new and revised edition. An vivid account of Imperial Russia prior to 1914 with detailed...

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    • Zig Zag Journeys in the Orient Butterworth [1882]

      Zig Zag Journeys in the Orient Butterworth [1882]

      Zig Zag Journeys in the Orient. Hezekiah Butterworth. Full title: The Adriatic to the Baltic; A journey of the Zigzag club from Vienna to the Golden Horn, The Euxine, Moscow, and St. Petersburg. The Zig Zag series was an American travelogue series of the...

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      Divided Soul: The Life of Gogol

      Divided Soul: The Life of Gogol

      Divided soul: The life of Gogol. Henri Troyat. Minerva Press, 1975. Softcover, 489 pages. Book is in good condition with several minor flaws such as edge wear and light soil to edges. Binding is solid, pages are crisp pages and text is clean text and...

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      Russian Blood, paperback

      Russian Blood

      Russian Blood. In the early 1980s, Alex Shoumatoff, the author, became curious about his roots. Both his grandmothers were into their 90s, and with a sense of urgency, he collected their stories and reminiscences about life as White Russian aristocrats,...

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