WALLERSEE-WITTELSBACH, Marie Louise, Countess Larisch von

Secrets of a Royal House: With Paul Maerker Branden and Elsa Branden. Profusely Illustrated. (with Ex-Libris)

London, John Long, [1934]. Large 8vo. original cloth, gilt lettered spine, 294pp. index, many b/w plates. Wittelsbach and Hapsburg family trees. Cloth very sunned, spill mark to upper board. Internally very tight and clean. In good condition generally. Stanley G. R. Barrett's ornate bookplate (coat-of-arms Veritas Vincit) to paste-down. Countess Marie Louise Larisch von Moennich was niece and lady-in-waiting and confidante of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She was implicated in the Mayerling Incident which resulted in the death of her married cousin Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera. Marie Louise published several books, with a ghost-writer, on the Imperial household.

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N° du livre: 38520

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Biography|Austria-Hungary|Austria|History|Royalty|Featured

WARD, Barbara.

Russian Foreign Policy, Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs. No. 34. Second Revised Edition.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1941. Original printed wrappers, 32pp. maps inside covers. V. G. Used; Very Good One of a series of Factual Documents produced for debate during WWII. Each one is 32pp, in length. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 21336

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Featured|Russia|Soviet Union|History

WARRINER, Doreen

Revolution in Eastern Europe.

London, Turnstile Press, 1950. With xv+188pp. three maps, 6 tables, indices. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Loosely enclosed newspaper cutting (c. 1947) on 'Marshal Tito's Pact with the Bulgarians'. A very good copy. Doreen Agnes Rosemary Julia Warriner (1904-1972) OBE was a development economist. She is now known for her role in rescuing refugees just before and during World War II. In December 1938, Warriner started her work in Prague as a British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia representative. She was previously best known as a specialist and authority on peasant farming. writing both before and after WWII on rural and agrarian problems in Eastern Europe. She spent a year in Yugoslavia in the 1930s working for U.N.N.R.A. The present book concerns the social and economic revolution as experienced in post-war Eastern Europe. Hardback.

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N° du livre: 32467

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: History|Economics|History|Poland|Yugoslavia|Balkans|Featured

WELLESLEY, Colonel The Hon F A

With the Russians in Peace and War. Recollections of a Military Attaché

London, Eveleigh Nash, 1905. A fair copy with no loss. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt with double eagle stamped in blind to upper board. Photo frontispiece and one engraved portrait at rear. 324pp. Later ex-libris to paste-down. Edges rubbed, cup-ring to lower board, tape to inner joints, pencil juvenilia to one page. However, tight otherwise clean and with no loss. Hardback.

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N° du livre: 34563

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Russia|History|Imperial Russia|Featured|Military|Ex-Libris

WHITMAN, Sidney (and McIlraith).

Austria. The Story of the Nation: With the Collaboration of J.R. Mcilraith. Third Edition.

London, T. Fisher Unwin. 1898. Original red cloth lettered gilt to spine. Boards ruled in blind. xx+407pp. folding map, b/w illustrations. Gwatkin family crest 'Duw a Bortha y Brain' to ex-libris label to paste-down. In good condition, very clean and tight. Very slightly cocked, spine head pulled, unobtrusive tie mark to lower board edge. Some off-setting to f.e.p. Gwatkin.

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N° du livre: 38538

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Austria-Hungary|Austria|History|Central Europe|Featured

Who's Who

Who's Who 1934. An Annual Biographical Dictionary with Which Is Incorporated "Men and Women of the Time". Eighty Sixth Year of Issue.

London, A & C Black, 1934. A good copy in original cloth, gilt lettered to spine. Sprinkled edges. B/w photos. Very many advertisements. A little fading to spine and leading edge. Heavy item, may need extra for postage. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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N° du livre: 37042

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Reference|Featured|History|Commonwealth|Empire|Britain|Inter-War|Colonial

WILES, P. J. D. (Ed.)

The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971. A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper. 300pp. Used; Like New This study represents attempts dating from 1967, by nine experts on Communist economics, to forecast the performance of individual Communist countries: Soviet Russia, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, GDR, Hungary, Poland with appendices. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 27567

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Communism|Economics|Economic History|Eastern Europe|Iron Curtain|Russia|Russian Economic History|Featured

WILLIAMS, David

The Enlightenment Cambridge Readings in the History of Political Thought.

Cambridge University Press, 1999. Almost as new. P/b. 542pp. Clean, bright and tight - barely used. Used; Like New An authoritative anthology of the key political writings. The texts are supported by a lucid introduction exploring their moral, philosophical, political and economic background, enabling the student to grasp both the context and the essence of each argument. Biographical notes and carefully selected bibliographies offer further help. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 34331

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Enlightenment|Political Thought|Europe|Philosophy|Featured

WIRTSCHAFTER, Elise Kimerling

The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater

Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. As new in original dust-wrapper.312pp. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. Author's presentation copy with some related correspondence loosely inside. Used; Like New How did educated 18th-century Russians view society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality with the monarchical political structures in which they lived? The author portrays Russian Enlightenment culture on its own terms and sheds light on broader problems of social order and political authority. Hardback.

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N° du livre: 34367

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Russia|Theatre|Culture|History|Enlightenment|Featured

WOLF, Eric R.

Peasants. Foundations of Modern Anthropology.

New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1966. Paperback, 116pp. appears unused. Neat owner name inside cover. Used; Like New Covering problems of peasant society, social aspects, economic aspects, peasants and ideology. Looked at world-wide with illustrations. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 27498

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Anthropology|History|Peasants|Agrarian|Europe|Social History|Ideology|Economics|Featured|Book-Cover Design

Worobec, Christine D.

Peasant Russia Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period

Bloomington, Princeton University Press, 1992. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Used; Like New Peasant Russia is a comprehensive examination of peasant life in central Russia in the decades immediately following serf emancipation. Using interdisciplinary methods of family history, anthropology, ethnography, and women's studies, Christine Worobec explores the world of peasant households and communities, elements of which lived on at the time of writing. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 27458

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Featured|Russia|Serfs|Emancipation|Peasant|Agrarian|Social History

YOVITCHITCH, Lena A ( Lenka A. Jovichic)

Within Closed Frontiers. A Woman in Wartime Yugoslavia. Second Edition.

London & Edinburgh, W & R Chambers, 1956. Original purple cloth, no dust-wrapper. 253pp. Gilt double-headed eagle (Yugoslavia coat-of-arms) to spine and upper board. Upper board a little warped, owner label to f.e.p.. Else very clean and tight. Pro-Mihailovic eyewitness account of both warfare and civilian life during WWII in Yugoslavia. The author was daughter of the Serbian charge d' affaires in London, Alexander Yovitchich or Jovicic and wrote his biography: "The Biography of a Serbian Diplomat " (1939) amongst other works (pages from 'Here and There in Serbia', 'Peeps at Many Lands': Yugoslavia). An interesting meeting with Lady Leila Paget in 1946 is recorded. Hardback.

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N° du livre: 32559

Catalogue: History

Mots-clés: Featured|Yugoslavia|World War II|Mihailovic|Serbia|Rat