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A selection of scarce and rare books. 

  • 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 Stepniak.

    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...
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  • Russian Wonder Tales Containing Twelve Of The Famous Bilibin Illustrations In Color. Post Wheeler.

    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...
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  • (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.

    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...
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  • Russian Emigre Politics. George Fischer, editor. NY: 1951 Free Russia Fund, 1951. Limited to 200 copies. Pebbled blue cloth hardcover.

    Russian Emigre Politics [1951] Fischer

    Russian Emigre Politics. George Fischer, editor. NY: 1951 Free Russia Fund, 1951. Limited to 200 copies. Pebbled blue cloth hardcover, no dj as issued. 112 pages, index. Fine condition, some tanning to pages.  George Fischer served in the military...
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  • The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II (Царствование императора Николая II). S.S. Oldenburg. 1939-1949

    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...
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  • Собрание сочинений В.А.Жуковского (Collected Works of Zhukovsky). Saint Petersburg, 1912

    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...
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  • Galicia and Moldavia Travel Letters [Kelsiev]

    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...
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  • Russian Reader [1906]

    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...
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  • Russian Grammar (vintage edition)

    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...
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  • Peter The Great [H. Lamb, 1948]

    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...
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