May SALE: books in our Drama, Humor, and Russian History sections priced at $100 or less are 30% off!
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Boston: W. Blagrove, 1807. Paperback. SCARCE. Very good- in off white paper wraps with black title to frotnt wrapper. Appears to have once been bound in a book. 1 dampstain to lower corner of front cover. Browning and foxing throughout though text remains bright. 36 pages. Drama. DRA1/2182. Very Good -. More about Lodoiska: An Opera in Three Acts
New York: Crosscurrents Press, 1960. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./illus./a documentary record of Khrushchev's trip to New York in 1960, including all his speeches and proposals to the U.N./286 pp. Russian History. RUS4/5092. Very Good. More about Khruschchev in New York
Ireland: Gallery Press, (1993). Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. An adaption of Chekhov's masterpiece in which Kilroy has transported the story from Russia to West Ireland. Kilroy's first novel "The Big Chapel" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won both the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Heinemann Award. Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with tight binding. Grey dust jacket with white title to spine. 87 pages. DRA/012908. Fine / Fine. More about The Seagull
New York: Franklin Watts, 1989. Hardcover. Fine orange boards in Nf Dj; mylar cover; b&w photos; 160 pp. Russian Biography. RUS/10212. Fine. More about Nikita Khrushchev
New York: Carlton Press, 1966. Hardcover. Vg/G Dj with chip out of edge of front panel, soiling, and creasing/text clean/8vo./illus./184 pp./in mylar. Russian History. RUS8/5082. Very Good. More about Upside-Down Crown Prince
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./illus./77 pp. Humor. HUM1/4222. Very Good. More about The Alarms and Excursions of Lady Littlehampton. 1st Edition
London: Gryphon Books Ltd., 1948. Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated wrappers with black title to front panel. Rubbing to spine and edges of wrappers. Very light soiling to rear wrapper. Filled with cartoons which were originally printed in the Daily Express. Clean interior. 64 pages. HUM/063009. Very Good. More about More and More Productions
London: John Murray, (1948). Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Very good in yellow cloth boards with red title to spine. Browning to spine. Remnants of bookplate to front pastedown, else interior is clean. Illustrated. 68 pages. HUM3/4222. Very Good. More about The Saracen's Head or The Reluctant Crusader. 1st Edition
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937. Paperback. Very good in off white side stapled paper wrappers with black title to front wrap. 2 small spots of browning to front wrap and a crease to the rear wrap. Interior is clean and bright. 64 pages. Communism COM/072711. Very Good in Wraps. More about Trotskyism and Fascism: The Anti-Communist Trial in Leipzig and the Trial of the Terrorists in...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Hardcover. 1st American Edition. Vg/Vg Dj/owner inscription to front free endpaper/otherwise nf/8vo./216 pp. Russian History. RUS19/5082. Very Good. More about The Fate of the Revolution: Interpretations of Soviet History
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./325 pp. Russian History. RUS1/5112. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More about The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. 1st ed., small 8vo. VG brown boards, in VG illustrated dust jacket w protective plastic cover; pages browned but clean w/bright text; Humor. HUM/1293. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More about The Boy I Left Behind Me
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1886. Hardcover. 3 vols. bound in 1. VG- very thick 4to., 3/4 red leather bound red cloth with gilt trim. Raised bands with gilt tooling and titling to spine; full gilt edges. Heavy wear to front interior hinge; dark discolorations to edge of both boards. Front free marbled endpaper detached; binding loose from spine and boards in rear but pages quite tight. Interior yellowed with some light foxing. Frontis, red & black illustrated title page. Filled with hundreds of wonderful illustrations. HUM/3133. Very Good -. More about John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character. Complete. (3 volumes bound in 1
Liepzig: Verlag fur literatur und politik, 1924. Paperback. Good plus in black wraps with faded gilt title on spine and front. Chipping to wraps and several pages. Half title page is detached but present. Pages brittle. Browning to pages. 126 pp. IN GERMAN. World History Pamphlets. WORHIS/2243. Good +. More about Briefe an Maxim Gorki 1908-1913
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1975 reprint of the original 1962 edition. Hardcover. Vg in dark green boards/No Dj as issued/8vo./former owner stamp to half-title, contents otherwise bright, crisp and clean/translated from the German by Elizabeth Wiskemann & Marian Jackson/403 pp. Russian History. RUS10/5112. Very Good. More about The Kremlin Since Stalin
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1958. Hardcover. Fine in near fine cream colored dust jacket with dark green title to front and spine panels. Revised edition. Pristine interior. Only the libretto by Janet Lewis is printed here. The music for the opera was written by William Bergsma. 67 pages. DRA/101316. Fine / Near Fine. More about The Wife of Martin Guerre: an Opera in Three Acts
New York: Random House, 1970. Hardcover. 1st American Edition. Vg in black boards/8vo./389 pp./text bright and clean. Russian History. RUS20/5082. Very Good. More about The Russian Revolution
New York: The Dial Press, 1983. Hardcover. Vg/Vg Dj/8vo./557 pp. Russian History. RUS7/5082. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More about In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Vg/Vg- Dj with one small dj edge tear to top edge of front panel/8vo./contents bright, crisp, and clean/261 pp. Russian History. RUS11/5112. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. More about Russia and the Road to Appeasement: Cycles of East-West Conflict in War and Peace
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Yellow cloth backed, red paper covered boards with black title to spine. Minor fading to edges of boards and spine ends. Spine slightly rolled. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Red and yellow dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Red portion of dust jacket is heavily faded, especially on spine. Chipping to edges of dust jacket. Index, 387 pages. HUM/071811. Very Good in Very Good- DJ. More about Low's Autobiography
[London]: The Mermaid Theatre, [1967]. Paperback. Theatre program. Benito Cereno is the third part of the trilogy "The Old Glory." It is based on a short story by Herman Melville, which was based on a true account of a slave ship. In addition to a list of the cast and crew, the program includes a biography of Lowell, an extract from "Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere" by Amasa Delano (1817), a biography of Melville, a diagram of the slave ship, a reproduction of an ad for slaves, and an article "Slavery Today" by Patrick Montgomery. Bound in black and white printed wrappers. Includes yellow insert. Unpaginated. [24 pages.] DRA/111716. Fine. More about Benito Cereno. Program for the British premiere of Benito Cereno directed by Jonathan Miller
New York: Samuel French, No date, Circa late 1800s. Paperback. Very good in yellow paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. Light browning and soiling to exterior. Sporadic light foxing to margins. Text is clean and bright. 42 pages. Drama. DRA908281. Very Good. More about Man in the Iron Mask: In Four Epochs (French's Standard Drama No. CCXXX
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Hardcover. Vg/Vg- Dj with light edgewear and chipping/thick 8vo./880 pp./fold-out maps Russian History. RUS12/5082. Very Good. More about History of the National Economy of Russia to the 1917 Revolution (1st Edition
New York: Robert M. de Witt, [1868]. Paperback. Very good in beige paper wrappers with black title to front cover. There are a few large chips to the edges of all pages of this pamphlet but the text is not effected. Browning throughout and light marking to front cover, else clean. 50 pages. DRA/011513. Very Good. More about The Rightful Heir. A Drama in Five Acts
Cambridge: Dunster House, 1926. Hardcover. Limited edition, one of 750 copies. Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with blue title and illustrations to front board and blue title to spine. Interior pristine except for remnants of glue from a removed bookplate to front paste down and browning on the front free end page opposite. Deckle-edge, hand-made paper, wide-margin text. 67 pages. Drama. DRA/3033. Very Good +. More about Nobodaddy