Vintage and Scarce

Nicholas II. Legendary Dream for Trinity [1926]

Emily Borman. Nicholas II. A Legendary Dream for Trinity Day (Эмилий Борман. Николай II. Сон - Легенда к Троицину Дню). Tallinn: Author's publication. Ed. Bergman Printing House [1926]. 48 p. Small paperbound pamphlet. IN RUSSIAN. In good condition. Some...

Not By Bread Alone V. Dudintsev 1957

Not By Bread Alone. A Novel in Four Parts. (Не Хлебом Единым. Роман в Четырех Частях). Vladimir Dudintsev. Munich, Tsope (Цопе - Центральная организация послевоенных политических эмигрантов), 1957. 1st edition. 298 pages. Emigre publisher. Dudintsev's...

Counter-Revolutionaries Krivorotov Russian Civil War

The Counter-Revolutionaries. A Novel in 3 parts. (Контрреволюционеры. В трех частях).  A monumental exploration of Russian life from 1892 to 1941. Vasily Ivanovich Krivorotov (1901-1984) was an author, historian, and journalist. During the Russian...

Onomastics [IN RUSSIAN]

Ономастика. Сборник статей. (Onomastics. Collection of articles.) Various contributors. Moscow: Nauka, 1969. Softcover, 262 pages. IN RUSSIAN. Descriptions and classification of various types of proper names - personal names, geographical names, trade...

Ivan Chonkin [Voinovich] YMCA Press 1975

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. (Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина (Роман Анекдот в Пяти Частях). Vladimir Voinovich [Владимир Войнович]. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1975. First edition. 357 pages, portrait...

The Humour of Russia Voynich [1895]

The Humour of Russia. Selected and translated by Ethel Lilian Voynich, with an introduction by S. Stepniak. Illustrations by Paul Frénzeny. Contents include stories by Gogol, Gorbounov, Ostrovsky, Uspensky, Dostoyevsky, Schedrin, Slepstsyov and...

Russian Wonder Tales [1957]

Russian Wonder Tales Containing Twelve Of The Famous Bilibin Illustrations In Color. Post Wheeler. Foreword by editor (Wheeler). Best loved tales include Tsar Saltan, Vasilissa the Beautiful, Fire Bird, Fenist the Falcon, Marya Morevna, Frog Tsarevna, as...

By God's grace [Божиею милостию] (Romanovs, 1957)

(Божиею милостию. [Париж, Высший монархический совет]). By God's grace. [Paris, Supreme Monarchical Council]. 1957, no author. IN RUSSIAN. 136 pages, many illustrations. Phototype album. Softcover version, printed on coated paper. (A hardcover version in...

Kirill Zaitsev. In memory of the last tsar. 1948 [In Russian]

Zaitsev, Kirill. In Memory of the Last Tsar: Russia and the Tsar. The secret of the identity of the Tsar. Catastrophe. Shanghai: [Dawn], 1948. 86, [2] pages. Wrappers (pamphlet) in good condition. 6¾" x 5". (17.5x13 cm). Covers worn, front page...

Reign of Emperor Nicholas II (Oldenburg) 1939-49

The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II (Царствование императора Николая II). S.S. Oldenburg. Three volumes bound together in a mid-century buckram binding. With one original printed cover at the beginning of the book. Pages have tanned. Binding is sound, hinge...

Collected Works of Zhukovsky [1912]

Собрание сочинений В.А.Жуковского (Collected Works of Zhukovsky). Saint Petersburg, 1912. Изд. Холмушина (Kholmushin). Scarce publication in fair condition. In Russian (of course). 1 copy only. Gilt titles and embossed covers. Covers worn. Edge wear to...

Church in Many Lands: A Trip Around the World (J.J. Burke) [1915]

Fr. J. J Burke. The Church in Many Lands: A Trip Around the World [records the work of the Church in Hawaii, the Orient, Palestine, Italy & France]. John J. Burke (1875–1936) was a Paulist priest and editor of the Catholic World from 1903 to...

Galicia and Moldavia Travel Letters [Kelsiev]

Galicia (Galichina) and Moldavia (Moldova). Travel Letters. (Галичина и Молдавия. Путевые письма.) Vasily Ivanovich Kelsiev. (Василий Иванович Кельсиев.) IN RUSSIAN. Originally published in St. Petersburg in 1868 by V.I. Golovin. Reprinted by The...

Russian Reader [1906]

Paul Boyer and N. Speranski. Russian Reader, Accented Texts, Grammatical and Explanatory Notes, Vocabulary. IL (Chicago): University of Chicago Press, 1906. 386 pages. Extensive appendices with their own index, table of contents. Written before the...

Russian Grammar [1911]

The correctness and purity of the Russian language (Правильность и чистота русской речи) and A Guide to Russian Spelling (Русское правописание : руководство). Turn of the century pre-revolutionary grammar books bound in a library hardcover binding. On...

Ukrainian Wedding Music: 2 volumes Весілля: у двох книгах

Wedding: in two volumes (Весілля: у двох книгах).IN UKRAINIAN. Ukrainian folk art series (Серія Українська народна творчість). Editor O.I. Day (Редактор О.І. Дей). Compilers: Shubravska M.M. (texts, notes), O.A. Pravdyuk, sheet music (Упорядники:...

Peter The Great [H. Lamb, 1948]

The City And The Tsar. Peter The Great And The Move To The West (1748-1762). Harold Albert Lamb's (1892-1962) prose is direct and fast-paced, well-researched and accurate to the time period. This is one of Lamb's scarcer titles. (A good synopsis of his...