Russia from Focloir

Russia zvim Zirmunskij, V. Introduction to Metrics. The Theory of Verse. Translated by from the Russian by C. F. Brown and edited by E. Stankiewicz & W. N. Vickery. London / The Hague/Paris: Mouton & Co., 1966, 245 pages, bib. Good to very good, tight, clean copy with minor shelf wear. Has the previous owner's bookplate (a professor… Read more about this item

Russia kvoc Koudrey, Vladimir. Once a Commissar. New Haven: Yale University Press,1937, 262 pages. Hardcover. Spine sunned with minor fraying to head and heel, front cover panel has some faint spots, page edges have darkening. Overall, a tight, clean copy. Given the distractions noted, I'd call the book fair. Some would classify it as good but that's… Read more about this item

Hoaxes 3333 Edited by Jordan, George William and Richardson Little Wright. Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch: an appreciation of his life and works. New York: The Authors Club, 1918, [4], 126, [6] p. (first 4 p. and last 5 p. blank), [9] leaves of plates: ill., facsims., ports. Photographic frontispiece and photographic plates facing p. 81, 93 and 103. Plates… Read more about this item

Georgia regk Russian embassies to the Georgian kings (1589-1605). Edited with Introduction, Additional Notes, Commentaries and Bibliography by W. E. D. Allen. Text translated by Anthony D. Mango. (Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., no. 138-139). Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, Cambridge [England], 1970, 2 volumes (xxxii, 640 pages) illustrations (some color), maps… Read more about this item

Russia smcr Spinka, Matthew, 1890-1972. The church and the Russian revolution. New York: Macmillan Co., 1927, xii pages, 1 leaf, 330 pages. The cover, blue cloth, is darkened, hard to read the gilt lettering on spine, cover panel gilt is pretty clear. The cover has some shelf wear. The page block has tanned over the years but supple and clean.… Read more about this item

Russia geste Grégoire, Henri, Roman Jakobson, Marc Szeftel. La geste du prince Igorʹ, épopée russe du douzième siècle. Texte établi, tr. et commenté sous la direction d'Henri Grégoire, de Roman Jakobson et de Marc Szeftel, assistés de J. A. Joffe. Volume offert à Michel Rostovtzeff.(Series:École libre des hautes études à New York. Annuaire de l'Institut de philologie et d'histoire orientales… Read more about this item

Russia hrlb Tschizewskij, Dmitrij, 1894-1977 (Cizevskij, Dmitrij). History of Russian literature from the eleventh century to the end of the Baroque. (Series: Slavistic printings and reprintings, 12). 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1960, 451 pages, plates, ports., facsims, indexes. Cover wear, occasional lines in margins, bookplate (in Russian) of former professor of Russian, good copy overall. $8.50 Box 21

Russia rlcd Russian tales and legends. Re-told by Charles Downing. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. London: Oxford University Press, 1960, 215p, illus. Some cover wear, good copy of hardcover. $10.00 Box 10

Russia cskc Cross, Samuel H. and Kenneth John Conant. Mediaeval Russian churches. Cambridge, Mass: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1949, xiv, 95p, illus, map, bib. (Mediaeval Academy of America. Publication, no. 53). Good, clean, tight copy in tattered dust jacket. $17.50 Box 505 "The text ... is, with trifling editorial changes, the one which ... [the author] prepared for a series of… Read more about this item

Russia ccgl Chadwick,H. Munro and Nora K. Chadwick. The Growth of Literature, Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968, (1936), xvii, 783 pages, index. Good to very good condition in like dust jacket. Originally published in 1936. A very impressive piece of scholarship by two distinguished historians. Heavy volume. $42.50 Box 3 Summary: First published between… Read more about this item

Russia cwap Connor, Walter D. The accidental proletariat: workers, politics, and crisis in Gorbachev's Russia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991, xv, 374p, bib, index. Good to very good copy, review slip laid in. $13.50 Box 3

Russia zar Zabriskie, Edward Henry. American-Russian rivalry in the Far East, a study in diplomacy and power politics, 1895-1914. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946, vii, 226 p, bib, index, incl. front. (map). A good copy in dust jacket -the dust jacket is fair only but did its job in protecting the book. The pages edges have foxing, the page… Read more about this item

Middle Ages gmgs Gaster, Moses. Ilchester lectures on Greeko-Slavonic literature and its relation to the folk-lore of Europe during the Middle Ages. With two appendices and plates. London: Trubner and Company, 1887, x, 229p. Very good. Signed by Gaster on the title page with a note saying "3.vi.87, 1st copy". Author's own copy? $50.00 Box 27

Gaelic 376 Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig. Sciuird chun na Rúise. Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin): Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teoranta, 1973, vi, 129p. Very good in dust jacket. $20.00

Ancient World 105jka Jettmar, Karl. Art of the Steppes. Translated from the German. Revised edition. (Series: Art of the World). New York: Greystone Press, 1967, 278 pages, illus (some colored), maps, bib, index. The top paper edge was once a little dusty, very good clean, tight copy in like dust jacket. Interesting. $9.50 Box A 105

RU 49b93 (Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837). Puskin today. Edited by David M. Bethea. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, ix, 258 pages, notes, bib, index. Signature on front free endpaper, not one of the fourteen essayists. Fine in dust jacket. $14.50 Box A93

Russia 007 Jarintzov, Madame N(adine), 1870- Russia: the Country of Extremes. New York: Henry Holt, 1914, xv, 372 pages, illus (all present), index. A good tight copy bound in blue with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, with intermittent damp spotting. $14.50 Contents: The country of extremes.--The past of the Cossacks.--Russian piety and the clergy.--Unorthodoxy and the monastic prisons.--A… Read more about this item

Russia 002 Lunt, Horace G. Old Church Slavonic grammar. 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1955, xiv, 143p, index. Darkening to endpapers, some shelf wear, good clean copy. $30.00 box 18

Russia 001 Foust, Clifford M. Muscovite and Mandarin; Russia's trade with China and its setting, 1727-1805. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969, x, 424p, bib, index, illus., maps. Very good in very good dust jacket. $37.50

Central Asia 001 Becker, Seymour. Russia's protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968, xiv, 416 p, bib, notes, glossary, index. illus., maps. Good copy in dust jacket. $25.00 Box B31 Box A 55 front hall