ABAKUMOVA, A..(Ed.), Mary Mackintosh, Frank Wilson.

A Russian Science Fiction Reader: Seven Stories Provided by the Novosti Press Agency.

London, George G. Harrap, 1968. Original illustrated cloth, 128 pp. illustrated in b/w. Seven stories in Russian, stress indicated, comprehension questions, vocabulary. In very good condition. Barely used. Clean, tight and bright. Seven stories, stress indicated, comprehension questions, Attractive illustrations by Frank Wilson. Russian-English vocabulary by Mary Mackintosh. A scarce and interesting introduction to contemporary Russian science fiction during the Space Race.

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Book number: 37651

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ADZHUBEI, A. (Adjubey Aleksey)

Serebryanaya Koshka" ILI Puteshestviye Po Amerike.

Moscow Moskva, Molodaya Gvardiya, 1956. A good, clean, tight copy. A little worn at spine. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Graphics director N Korobeinikov. Rodchenko influenced upper cover design. Used; Very Good An an account of his journey around America by Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubei (Samarkand, 1924 - Moscow 1993). Nicknamed 'the King of the Soviet Press' in the 1960s, Adzhubei was Khrushchev's son-in-law. After Nikita Khrushchev's sensational exposure of Stalin's crimes and the millions of victims in the gulag, Adzhubei became 'journalist number one' and moved in 1959 as editor to Izvestia. He transformed the paper from a 'dull rag' into a lively, intellectually stimulating publication. Serebryanaya koshka was published some 3 years before his epic 700pp work 'Face to Face with America'. Paperback.

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Book number: 35542

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ALEXANDROV G. F. et al. (GORKY, M., MOLOTOV, V., VOROSHILOV, K, KIROV, S., ZHDANOV, A., STALIN, J.. Eds.)

The History of the CIVIL War in the U.S. S.R. . Volume Two. Association Copy William Gallacher. The Great Proletarian Revolution. (October-November 1917).

London and Moscow, Lawrence and Wishart and Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1947. Octavo, maroon 'Soviet' cloth, stamped in blind, lettered dull gilt. Lenin b/w portrait tipped-in. 651pp. illustrated in b/w throughout. Facsimile of draft resolution tipped in. Inscribed Wm. Gallacher May Day 1947. Politician William or Willie Gallacher was a leading Communist and trades unionist most of his working life. Translated from the 1942 Russian edition by J. Fineberg. Grierson 11.

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Book number: 38574

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ANISHCHENKOV, Nikolai

A Soviet Factory Past, Present and Future. An Account of Steel-Making, Ship and Loco-Building at Red Sormovo. (Krasnoye Sormovo - Nizhny Novgorod Machine Factory). Soviet Booklet No. 59.

London, Soviet Booklets, 1959. Printed card covers, 22[ii]pp. b/w photos. Very good condition. Used; Very Good With the usual superb Soviet photography. One of a series of 1960s 'Soviet Booklets' published at Rosary Gardens in London and printed by the Farleigh Press in Watford. Paperback.

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Book number: 34585

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ASHUROV, Ya. S. et al

Buxara. (Buhoro. Bokhara)

Tashkent, Gosizdat UzSSR, 1963. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Usual Soviet cloth, illustrated to upper board, in-text illustrations, photographs. Text in Russian. Collectable; Very Good Guide book to Bokhara. A gem of Soviet publishing, both for the graphics and photography. Hardcover.

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Book number: 25596

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BALABANOV, Ye

Solntse Na Zemlye Chto Takoye Atomnaya Yenergiya I Kak Ona Slyzhsit Lyudyam. (Russian Text: The Sun on Earth - Atomic Energy)

Moscow Moskva, Molodaya Gvardiya, 1956. A very good, clean, tight copy. 293pp. Cloth-backed colour illustrated boards, illustrated in b/w throughout, entire text in Russian. Illustrator N Stolaninova. A very good, clean, tight copy. Interesting children's science primer published a year before the Sputnik 1 was launched. The cover shows an idea that was current in science fiction at the time of an atomic power station in space providing light to a large area of the Earth below. Hardback.

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Book number: 35546

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BOBRINSKOY, Alexis (Paul Hogarth - Lebedeva Collie)

Use Your Russian: Based on Vera Lebedeva's Letter to Margaret Collie Recorded for the Bbc by Moscow Radio.

London, BBC, 1963. Audio material not included. Original card covers, large octavo, 24pp. illustrated in b/w. In excellent condition. Appears unused. Very clean, bright and tight. Beautifully illustrated by Paul Hogarth. A course of 12 lessons based on the interchange of letters between an English housewife, Mrs Collie, and a Russian housewife, Mrs Lebedeva. Recorded by Radio Moscow and broadcast by the BBC.

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Book number: 37531

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Bryant, Arthur, Squire, Sir John, Falls, Cyril, Elliott, Clarence, Burton, Maurice et al

The Death of Marshal Joseph Stalin "Illustrated London News: Saturday, March 14

1953. Magazine, pp.386-384. Lacks outer cover else clean and in good condition. With full page article on the Russian Succession by Cyril Falls and many archive photographs.

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Book number: 37310

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BUFFUM, W. H., KELLER,H. R., LEMIEUX, C. P..

Dialogues on Russian Culture.

Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1960. Original printed card covers, mimeographed and bound. For the intermediate student. Illustrated. Collectable; Very Good Interesting American Cold War era period publication. Paperback.

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Book number: 28597

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CARRUTHERS, John.

Political Economy of Socialism. A Lecture Read Before the Hammersmith Branch of the Socialist League. One Penny.

Hammersmith, The Socialist League, Kelmscott House. Printed by Churchman. [1885]. Disbound. Pamphlet. Printed wrappers featuring small decorative rose bud. 16 pp. John Carruthers (1836–1914), Scottish civil engineer. Good friend of William Morris and active supporter of the Socialist League and Hammersmith Socialist Society. This talk published at Kelmscott - William Morris' house - (but printed by Churchman of Hammersmith) some six years before the Kelmscott Press was founded.

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Book number: 38095

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CHEKHOV, N. V. ROBINSON, M. F., kHAKIMOV, Kh G..

Kartinnyi Slovar Russkogo Iazyka. [Russian Picture Dictionary. First Part]. Uchebnoe Posobie Dlia Uchashchikhsia Nerusskikh Nachalnykh Shkol. Chast Pervaia. Izdanie Vosmoie

Moscow, Moskva, Uchpedgiz, 1959. 8th edition. Original cloth-backed colour illustrated boards, 63[ii]pp. 21x26pp. Charmingly illustrated mainly in b/w but with some colour plates. Very slightly shaken but generally in good condition, clean and complete. Owner name to paste-down. School picture dictionary for non-Russian speakers. An example of language politics and the 'Russification' of the Soviet Union. Part I.

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Book number: 37336

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CHEKHOV, N. V.

Kartinnyi Slovar Russkogo Iazyka. [Russian Picture Dictionary. Second Part]. Uchebnoe Posobie Dlia Uchashchikhsia Nerusskikh Nachalnykh Shkol. Chast Vtoraia. Izdanie Sedmoe

Moscow, Moskva, Uchpedgiz, 1959. 7th edition. Quarto. 21x26pp. Original cloth-backed colour illustrated boards, 67[ii]pp. Charmingly illustrated mainly in b/w but with some colour plates. In very good condition, clean and tight. School picture dictionary for non-Russian speakers. An example of language politics and the 'Russification' of the Soviet Union. Part II.

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Book number: 37337

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CHESTNOV, F. I.. ?. ?. ???????

Radiolokatsiya: ????????????. Izdaniye Tretye. Nauchno-Populiarnaya Biblioteka. ??????-?????????? ??????????. [Popular Science Library. Third Edition]. Text in Russian.

Moscow Moskva, Izdatel'stvo Tekhniko-Teoreticheskoi literaturi, 1958. Illustrated paper covers, 63 pp. in-text illustrations. Almost as new, appears unused. Clean, tight and bright. Text in Russian.

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Book number: 37745

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CHINA

Huoche Lunchuan Ne Feiji: [Plane, Ship and Plane: Text in Chinese].

1974. Printed paper wrappers, 84 pp. illustrated inside in b/w. A very nice bright copy. Light signs of use. Clean and tight.

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Book number: 37747

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DVINSKY, Em[manuil] (Dmitri Baltermants ??????? ???????????.)

Moskva: With Yu. Rodionov (Ed. ), P. Zubchenkov (Comp. And Art-Work).

Moscow, Moskovskii rabochii, 1963. Landscape quarto album, colour kodachrome-style photographic reproductions throughout. Not paginated. Captions in Russian and English. Generally good but a few signs of damp marking to boards. Tight and no loss or tears. Photographs by Dmitri Baltermants photojournalist (??????? ?????????? ??????????? 1912-1990) and others. He was an official Kremlin photographer, worked for the daily Izvestia and was picture editor of the popular magazine Ogonyok. During World War II, Baltermants covered the battle of Stalingrad, and the battles of the Red Army in Russia and Ukraine.

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Book number: 38392

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