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Russian Revolution:

Dunlop, John B. . NEW RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARIES
Belmont 1976 1st Nordland. Author Russian Professor at Oberlin, writes on Ogurtsov, Vagin, Platonov, Borodin and Sado. Hardcover. Octavo, 344pp, index, cloth. Fine, no DJ. (a10957)
$25.00 Woroszylski, Wiktor . LIFE OF MAYAKOVSKY
NY 1970 Orion. Translated from Polish by B. Taborski. Large octavo, 559pp., photo illustrations, index, hardcover. Fine in VG DJ. (a11124)
$25.00 Clardy, Jesse . PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS OF ALEXANDER RADISHCHEV
London 1964 Vision. Octavo, 155pp., hardcover. VG plus in Good dj. no ownership marks. (a11560)
$20.00 Mikhelson, Andre Lwoff . I CAME OUT ALIVE
Boston 1935 1st Little Brown. Hardcover octavo. Black cloth with red trim. Translated from the Russian by John Cournos. Compelling reading. Russian aristorat graphically describes the always shocking depths humans fall to in times of political upheaval. Author does not exclude himself in this indictment but vividly describes his own corrupt and cruel actions in 1914-15 before his escape from Lenin's Russia. 304pp., photo portrait of author as frontispiece. VG, light wear, no ownership marks , no dj. (a11656)
$25.00 Glaser, Leon S. . FROM MOSCOW TO JERUSALEM THE MORALE PERISHES, LIFE-STORY (in Hebrew)
NY 1938 2nd Max Jankowitz. Translated from German by Isaac Singer. In Hebrew. A captivating narrative, a gripping true story...(of) the Russian Revolution in which the author took an active part. His evolution from a military commander in the Red Army to an ardent believer in the upbuilding of Palestine as a Jewish National Home. Hardcover. Octavo, photo illustrations, cloth. VG in Good DJ, some wrinkling and fraying of top edge. Orange pictorial jacket by David Freidlander. (a13037)
$49.00 Eastman, Max . LEON TROTSKY THE PORTRAIT OF A YOUTH
London 1926 1st English Faber and Gwyer. 8vo., 197pp., photos, hardcover. Good, cover soiled, worn, no DJ. (a18037)
$25.00 Ross, Edward Alsworth . THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION (1921)
NY 1921 First edition Century. Hardcover. Octavo, 302pp., photo illustrations, cloth.. VG, spine letters faded away, some light spotting and wear. (a20723)
$27.00 Kalpaschnikoff, Andrew . A PRISONER OF TROTSKY'S (signed)
NY 1920 1st Doubleday. Foreword by David R. Francis. Hardcover. Octavo, 287pp., cloth. ***Signed by Kalpaschnikoff. Good, some wear, portion of rear panel of DJ tipped in front endpaper, light fraying of head of spine. (a25207)
$48.00Pesotta, Rose. DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Boston 1958 1st Excelsior. Deals at first hand with life in Tsarist Russia. The scene is Derazhnya, a bustling markettown in the Ukraine. Hardcover. Octavo, 262pp., index, cloth. Fine in Good dj (dj has 3 short closed tears.) (a29344)
$29.00 Durland, Kellogg . THE RED REIGN THE TRUE STORY OF AN ADVENTUROUS YEAR IN RUSSIA
NY 1907 1st Century. 8vo., 533pp., photo illustrations, index, hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a29833)
$45.00 Babel, Isaac . YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING
NY 1969 4th Printing. Translated from the Russian. Short stories. 8vo., 283pp. VG in VG DJ. (a31936)
$25.00 Trapeznikov, S. . AT THE TURNING POINTS OF HISTORY SOME LESSONS OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM WITHIN THE MARXIST-LENINIST MOVEMENT
Moscow 1972.Trapeznikov was a notorious Stalinist hardline hack. 3 lines at the end underlined in pencil. Sold as a curiosity, suitable for a Museum of Bolshevik gibberish. Hardcover. Octavo, 293p., cloth. VG, rear blank end paper torn out, in VG DJ. (a33479)
$22.00 Pares, Sir Bernard (introduction) . THE LETTERS OF THE TSARITSA TO THE TSAR
London 1923 Duckworth. first edition. Sm.4to., 478pp., frontis photo illustration, printed hardcover. Scarce. VG. no dj. (a44299)
$75.00 Ilyin-Genevsky, A.F. . FROM THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION TO THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION 1917
NY 1931. Sm.8vo., 121pp., fed cloth. VG, no DJ. (a47679)
$35.00 Lenin, N, . PROLETARSKAYA REVOLUTZIYA I RENEGAT KAUTSKII (PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION AND THE RENEGADE KAUTSKY)
1920 first edition ?Tsentrespolkoma R.F.K.P.A. Hardcover. In Russian. Octavo, 144p., green cloth with gilt lettering. VG plus, slight foxing on endpapers. No ownership marks. (a51887)
$180.00 Dvinov, B. . OT LEGAL 'NOSTIK PODPOL'-IU (FROM LEGALITY TO THE UNDERGROUND) (1921-1922) ZAPISKI (NOTES)
New York 1955. In Russian. 4to., 183pp., printed wraps. A few pen corrections in text. Duplicate stamp inside front cover. Good, wraps chipped. Scarce. (a53201)
$300.00 Yakhontoff, Victor A. . OVER THE DIVIDE IMPERSONAL RECORD OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
NY 1939 1st Coward-McCann. Eyewitness to events in Russia from beginning of twentieth century: 1905 troubles, Bolsheviks, World War One. 8vo., 301pp., hardcover. Good, front hinge beginning to crack, cover a bit browned and soiled, no DJ. (a53947)
$35.00Zarodov, K. I. (editor). LENINISM AND THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
Prague 1970 Peace and Socialism Publishers. hardcover octavo. red cloth. 390pp., portrait frontis of Lenin. Owner signed. VG, no DJ. Cover corners gently bent; text clean but lightly, evenly, toned. (a54925)
$25.00 Haimson, Leopold H. . THE RUSSIAN MARXISTS AND THE ORIGINS OF BOLSHEVISM
Cambridge 1955 1st Harvard. 8vo., 246pp., red cloth hardcover. VG in Fair DJ, worn. (a60381)
$24.00 Lomomosoff, George V. . A VOICE OUT OF RUSSIA
NY 1919. Article (5pp.) in The Dial, Vol. LXVI No. 782, January 25, 1919. Included in a complete issue of The Dial, with several other articles. 4to., wraps. Good, light wear. (a63098a)
$30.00 Pinchot, Amos . LIPMANN: OBFUSCATOR DELUXE
NY 1933. Article (4pp.) in The Nation, Vol. CXXXVII No. 3550, July 19, 1933. Third part of a series of 4 articles on Lipmann by Pinchot. Included in a complete issue of The Nation, with several other articles. 4to., wraps. Good, light wear, lower corner of several leaves folded over. (a63099a)
$30.00 Mett, Ida . LA COMMUNE DE CRONSTADT. CR�PUSCULE SANGLANT DES SOVIETS
Paris 1949 Spartacus. In French. Small octavo, 88pp., ads, original printed wraps. A few pencil underline and marginal marks. VG. (a63683)
$30.00 Felshtinsky, Yuri (comp.) . COMMUNIST OPPOSITION IN THE USSR 1923 -1927 THE TROTSKY'S ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS IN FOUR VOLUMES
Bensont 1988 Chalidze. 4 volumes in Russian. Octavo, 256pp., 253pp., 256pp., 280pp., original printed wraps. Near Fine, light browning of spines. Four volume set, complete. (a64582)
$125.00 (lenin) . THE LAND REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA BEING A SPEECH ON THE LAND QUESTION BY LENIN
c.1919. Together with the Two Fundamental Land Decrees of the Russian Soviet Republic. 12mo., 32pp., original printed wraps. VG, light wear. (a67374)
$29.00 Litvinoff, Maxim; Ivy Litvinoff . THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION: ITS RISE AND MEANING; SUPPLMENTARY CHAPTERS
Chicago 1920 Socialist Party. Small octavo, 79pp., original printed wraps. VG, a few tiny chips on front. (a67427)
$25.00 Taylore, Sidney . SOVIET AND SOUL RUSSIA THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUTH
London 1931 1st Houghton. Small octavo, 164pp., reproductions of Soviet posters and photographs by the author, red cloth hardcover. VG, front cover has small crease, light soiling, no DJ. (a68139)
$49.00 Chamberlin, William Henry . THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917-1921 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE)
NY 1935 Macmillan. 2 volumes. Large octavos, 511pp., 556pp., photo illustrations, index, original hardcovers. Good , front inner hinge cracking, no DJs. 2 volumes. (a68838)
$75.00 Gorn, Mordechai Martin . JOURNEY TO FULFILLMENT. ISBN 0-8197-0471-7
NY 1979 Bloch. ISBN 0-8197-0471-7. Memoir of Russian soldier who fled the army, watched the Communist revolution, was captured, escaped and came to America. Octavo, 187pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Fine in VG DJ, light wear. (a69419)
$25.00 Astrov, W. (editor) . AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION VOLUME ONE
NY 1927 International Publishers. Hardcover. 4to., 195pp., monochrome photo illustrations, black cloth. 1Good, cover worn and soiled, corners and spine ends worn, no DJ. Volume 1 only. (a69904)
$32.00 Champney, Elizabeth W. and Frere Champney . ROMANCE OF RUSSIA FROM RURIK TO BOLSHEVIK
NY 1921 1st Putnam. Hardcover. Large octavo, 352pp., hardcover. Good, inner hinges cracking, no DJ. (a70540)
$22.00 Piatnitsky, O. . MEMOIRS OF A BOLSHEVIK
NY c. 1926) International Publishers. Hardcover. Octavo, phot portrait frontis, green cloth. VG, light wear, spine tanned, no DJ. (a71886)
$29.00 Cantacuzene, Princess . REVOLUTIONARY DAYS RECOLLECTIONS OF ROMANOFFS AND BOSHEVIKI 1914-1917
Boston 1919 Small Maynard. Hardcover. Octavo, 411pp., photo illustrations, gilt printed blue cloth. VG plus, very slight wear. (a74553)
$24.00 Stewart, George . THE WHITE ARMIES OF RUSSIA A CHRONICLE OF COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND ALLIED INTERVENTION
NY 1933 Macmillan. Hardcover. Large octavo, 469pp., photo illustrations, index, cloth. Good plus, spine browned and ends lightly frayed, no DJ. (a74762)
$110.00 Price, M. Philips . WAR AND REVOLUTION IN ASIATIC RUSSIA
London 1914 Allen and Unwin. Chapters include: With the Russian Expedition in Northwest Perisa and Khurdistan; The Erzerum Offensive; With the Armenia Volunteers Round Lke Van, My Summer on the Kars Plateau 1916, Work Among the Refugees in Lazistan, The Armenian Question and its Settlement, Nationalism in the Caucasus, The Russian Revolution and its effects in Asia. Hardcover. Octavo, 296pp., two foldour maps, blue cloth. Bookplate of Masonic Library and signed by man who donated the book to the library, Dr. John Lewin McLeish, who was in Archangel, Russia 1918-1919. VG plus, slight bump of top right corner. (a77945)
$200.00 Spiegel, Alexander S. . A LIFE IN STORM
Jersusalem 1963 1st Newman. Eyewitness to Bolshevik Revolution. Hardcover. Octavo, 291pp., photo illustrations, cloth. Inscribed and signed by Spiegel. Near Fine in Good DJ. (a78143)
$25.00 Colquhoun, James . ADVENTURES IN RED RUSSIA FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE WHITE SEA (SIGNED)
London 1926 1st John Murray. Printed for Private Circulation only. Author was in Russia in 1916 and witnessed the time before and during the Bolshevik takeover. He travelled to Georgia, Batoum, Dzansoul, Tiflis, Vladikafkas, Tzaritizin, Novgorod, Murmansk, more. Hardcover. Octavo, 193pp., photo illustrations, red cloth with black lettering on front and gilt lettering on spine. ***Presentation copy to John Hays Hammond signed by Colquhoun. VG. Scarce. (a78461)
$500.00 Milyoukov, Paul . RUSSIA AND ITS CRISIS
Chicago 1906 1st University of Chicago. Crane Lectures for 1903. Hardcover. Octavo, 589pp, frontis portrait of Milyoukov, cloth. Near Good, inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners lightly frayed. (a78462)
$22.00 Seward, William H. . SPEECH ON THE PROPOSED PROTEST OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST THE ARMED INTERVENTION OF RUSSIA IN THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MARCH 9, 1852
Washington 1852. Delivered in the Senate of the Unired States March 9, 1852. Octavo, 16pp., later wraps. Signed by contemporary owner, L. P. Lyon, on front. Good, toned and edges lightly frayed. (a78550)
$38.00 Palen, Lewis Stanton . WHITE DEVIL OF THE BLACK SEA
NY 1924 1st Minton Balch. Narrative of legendary adventures of pro-Czarist, anti-communist Russian leader identified as LD. Hardcover. Octavo, 298pp., black cloth. **Signed by publisher Melville Minton. VG , in Good DJ, unevenly faded, some small chips and some closed tears. (a78690)
$29.00 Spinka, Matthew . THE CHURCH AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
New York 1927 1st Macmillan. Hardcover. Small octavo, 330pp., blue cloth. VG, spine lettering faded away, no DJ. (a78707)
$25.00Reed, John. RED RUSSIA THE TRIUMPH OF THE BOLSHEVIKI
Bow 1919 Workers' Socialist Federation. In English. Includes an interview with Trotsky and one fullpage (but very fuzzy) view of some street fires during the Russian Revolution. Reed described on cover as Consul in New York State for the Russian Peoples' Government. 12mo., 17pp., wraps. Fair, cover split at spine, very brittle and very chipped. Very Scarce. (a7872)
$35.00Radziwill, Princess Catherine. FIREBRAND OF BOLSHEVISM
Boston 1919 first edition. Small Maynard. Hardcover octavo. The true story of the Bolsheviki and the forces that directed them. 293pp., photo illustrations. Owner signed. VG, light wear. no dj. (a8061)
$27.00 Corcos, Fernand . UNE VISITE A LA RUSSIE NOUVELLE (SIGNED)
Paris 1930 1st Editions Montaigne. Preface de Maurice Viollette. In French. 12mo., 429pp., original wraps.**Signed by Corcos. Good, worn and toned. (a80659)
$44.00 Bientock, J. W. . RASPOUTINE LA FIN D'UN REGIME
Paris 1917 (copyright) nouvelle edition augmentee. In French. 12mo., 351pp., original wraps. Good, somewhat worn, toned. (a80661)
$39.00