Vintage and Scarce

When Lovers Ruled Russia {1928]

When Lovers Ruled Russia. V. Poliakoff. NY: D. Appleton, 1928. 284 pages. Hardcover, purple linen cloth covers, gold embossed titles and eagle.12 illustrations, index. Text is unmarked, no ownership...

Catherine the Great [1963] Zoe Oldenbourg

Catherine the Great. A biography of the woman who became Empress of all the Russias. Zoé Oldenbourg. Catherine the Great (Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg) was born in 1729 in...

Two Vintage Russian Dictionaries [1953] Ozhegov, Muller

Dictionary of the Russian Language (Словарь Русского Языка).  Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov (1900-1964) (Сергей Иванович Ожегов) version. Moscow, 1953. State Publishing House of Foreign and National...

Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, 1939-1942

Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, 1939-1942. David J. Dallin. Soviet foreign policy during the early war years started as a pragmatic isolationist strategy, which included territorial expansion, as...

American Diplomat "Papers of Colonel House" 2 vol. [1926]

The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. From Neutrality to War, 1915-1917. Colonel Edward M. House. Edited by Charles Seymour.  Seymour arranged the diary of Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), the...

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...

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...

KROKODIL USSR Satirical Illustrated Humor Magazine 5 mags from 1959

5 vintage Krokodil (Крокодил) magazines from the 1950s. A nice set of illustrated Soviet satirical humor mags published in Moscow and part of the PRAVDA newspaper family. Additionally included is a...

Rare and extraordinary history of holy Russia [Gustav Dore]

The rare and extraordinary history of holy Russia. Gustave Dore. With over 500 illustrations. The legendary French artist and illustrator, Gustav Dore (1832-1883), originally published this...

65 Songs Bulat Okudzhava (English/Russian Edition)

Sixty Five Songs (English and Russian Edition). English Translations by Eve Shapiro, Musical arrangements, selection and editing by Vladimir Frumkin.  Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Булат Шалвович...

Russian Fairy Tales and Epics [1875 Facsimile]

Album of Russian Folk Tales and Epics (Альбом русских народных сказок и былин). This album is a facsimile edition of the book of 1875 was published by Logos in 1992. Twelve fairy tales and byliny's...

Life in the Church [Pokrov, Chicago] 1953 RARE

Жизнь В Церкви (Life in the Church). Издание св. Покровской Православной Общины Чикаго. The Russian Orthodox Church in Chicago began in a two-story house on 2141 West Pierce Avenue in 1949, under the...

Revolution of Directors James Burnham 1954 {IN RUSSIAN]

Revolution of Directors (Революция Директоров). James Burnham. IN RUSSIAN. Burnham (1905-1987) was an American philosopher and political theorists and one of the authors of the theory of managerial...

A Merry Journey (Веселое путешествие) 1961 [IN RUSSIAN]

A Merry Journey (Веселое путешествие). Victor Pekelis (Виктор Давыдович Пекелис) (1921-1997). Illustrations by Dmitry Spiridonovich Bisti (Дмитрий Спиридонович Бисти) (1925-1990) throughout. A...

Waltz of the Dogs [Andreyev, 1924]

Leonid Andreyev. The Waltz of the Dogs. A Play in Four Acts.  In a desolate city, a group of dogs discover the remnants of a waltz, and through their howling and whining evoke a profound emotional...

Autobiography of John Hays Hammond [1935]

The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond. Volume II. NY: Farrar, Rinehart, 1935. First edition. Green cloth hardcover, gilt title on front cover, gilt titles on spine (not very visible due to sunning)...

Church in Many Lands (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...

The Naked Year [Boris Pilnyak]

The Naked Year (Голые Года). Boris Pilnyak (Борис Пильняк - 1894-1938). Written in 1922, the novel was one of the first fictional accounts of the Russian Civil War. Set in the provincial town of...

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,...

The Russian Peasantry. Stepniak [1905]

The Russian Peasantry: Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life & Religion. S. Stepniak. Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinskii (Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский) (1851-1895) went by Sergius...