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Dersu, The Trapperby: Arseniev, V. K. - Product Image

Dersu, The Trapper
by: Arseniev, V. K.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages. Translated from Russian by Malcolm Burr. Cloth covers, blue stamped titles, 3 b&w illustrated maps, blue top edge stain. Rubbing and light soiling to covers, spine lightly cocked, previous owner's bookplate and signature to front endpapers, light foxing and discoloration to endpapers, discoloration to page block ends; otherwise, a neat, tight copy of a scare book.

Record # 808587

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Erte: My Life, My Art - An Autobiographyby: Erte - Product Image

Erte: My Life, My Art - An Autobiography
by: Erte

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages illustrated throughout with 156 plates including 74 in full color. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Large folio. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Follows the artist from his birth in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892, through the 1980's. Beautiful color plates include costume design, magazine covers (Harper's Bazar), sculpture, vases, mirrors, medallions, jewelry, labels, bottles, playing cards, watches.

Record # 460194

Price: $70.00 
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Italics are Mine, Theby: Berberova Nina; Radley Philippe translator  - Product Image

Italics are Mine, The
by: Berberova Nina; Radley Philippe translator

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In this substantial work, Berberova, a renowned writer who left her homeland along with many compatriots in the wake of the 1917 Revolution, chronicles the travails she encounters in poverty-stricken Russia, poverty-stricken Berlin, and poverty-stricken Paris, where she lived from 1925-1950.

Record # 359033

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Kazimir Malevich: Suprematismby: Gurianova, Nina/ Jean-Claude Marcade , Tatyana Mikhienko  - Product Image

Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism
by: Gurianova, Nina/ Jean-Claude Marcade , Tatyana Mikhienko

Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. In 1915, Kazimir Malevich changed the future of modern art when his experiments in painting led the Russian avant-garde into pure abstraction. He called his innovation Suprematism--an art of pure geometric form meant to be universally comprehensible regardless of cultural or ethnic origin. His Suprematist masterpiece, White Square on White (1920-27), continues to inspire artists throughout the world. Focused exclusively on this defining moment in Malevich's career, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism features nearly 120 paintings, drawings and objects, among them several recently discovered masterworks. In addition, the book includes previously unpublished letters, essays and diaries, along with essays by international scholars, who shed new light on this popular figure and his devotion to the spiritual in art.

Record # 350684

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Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoyby: Shirer, William L. - Product Image

Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy
by: Shirer, William L.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. A touching, brilliant and ground-breaking biography of one of literary history's most famous couple, at once a dual biography, a history, and the portrait of a long and stormy marriage. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Record # 359027

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Memoirs of a Russian Lady: Drawings and Tales of Life Before the Revolution by: Marianna Davydoff - Product Image

Memoirs of a Russian Lady: Drawings and Tales of Life Before the Revolution
by: Marianna Davydoff

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. Selected and translated by Olga Davydoff Dax. Color illustrations by the author throughout. Mariamna Davydoff, the Russian lady who wrote and illustrated this memoir of her life before the Revolution, was born in 1871 into a large, aristocratic family whose ancestors can he traced back to the eleventh century. After fleeing Russia in 1919, she eventually settled in Brittany with a sister and there reproduced, from memory, albums of detailed text and watcrcolors that had been abandoned in Russia and were later destroyed by the Bolsheviks. The result is a unique, first-hand account of a way of life that we have previously known almost exclusively through the works of Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, and a few other writers of the late nineteenth century.

Record # 380159

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Meyerhold the Directorby: Rudnitsky, Konstantin - Product Image

Meyerhold the Director
by: Rudnitsky, Konstantin

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis, 1st English, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 565 pages. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Dust Jacket shows some wear due to age: yellowing, fraying and chipping to edges of front, spine and back, but still in tact. Cover boards clean, covered in teal fabric and in good shape. Pages clean, edges slightly yellowed. From the front flap: "...a landmark work in Russian theater scholarship, this study reveals Meyerhold in the context of his time, as seen by friends and enemies, actors and critics, and analyzes the development of his remarkable career as Russia's most celebrated and influential experimental director."

Record # 30439

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Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by: Morson, Gary Saul /Emerson, Caryl  - Product Image

Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics
by: Morson, Gary Saul /Emerson, Caryl

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 530 pages. Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern. Clean, bright copy, as new.

Record # 378703

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Mystery of Olga Chekhova, Theby: Beevor, Antony - Product Image

Mystery of Olga Chekhova, The
by: Beevor, Antony

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, b&w photos, in a bright dust jacket. The true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler.

Record # 359133

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Naum Gaboby: Sidlina, Natalia - Product Image

Naum Gabo
by: Sidlina, Natalia

Softcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 352446

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No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey From Russia to Paris to New York by: Iswolsky, Helene (Daughter Of The Last Tsarist Ambassador To France) - Product Image

No Time to Grieve: An Autobiographical Journey From Russia to Paris to New York
by: Iswolsky, Helene (Daughter Of The Last Tsarist Ambassador To France)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Winchell Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. Clean. Helene Iswolsky, daughter of a Russian diplomat, grew up in Japan, Denmark, Russia, and France. In 1911, her father became Russian ambassador to France. She returned to Russia for her debut in 1914, to be presented to the Tsarina Alexandra. While there she attended the wedding of Prince Felix Yusupov, who was to murder Rasputin three years later. After the Tsar was overthrown, her father retired to Biarritz and died there in 1919, leaving unpaid debts. The author took up translating and writing. She had a religious awakening and became a Catholic. A sojourn in a Benedictine monastery left her changed, but she decided not to make the cloister her life. The author knew many notable people in the Paris area, especially writers, poets, critics, philosophers of the "new wave," Christian humanists, and Russian emigres. She attended the Sunday afternoon gatherings of Jacques Maritain and Nicholas Berdiaev, and worked on Emmanuel Mounier's journal "Esprit." When the Nazis occupied France, she escaped to America with her mother. Here she founded an ecumenical movement called "The Third Hour" and taught Russian at Fordham University and other schools. She was a close friend of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. Scarce.

Record # 359148

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Pasternak on Art & Creativityby: Livingstone, Angela - Product Image

Pasternak on Art & Creativity
by: Livingstone, Angela

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 292 pages. Blue cloth boards. Pictorial dust jacket is tinted with light fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855656

Price: $60.00 
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Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century by: Pauline Wengeroff - Product Image

Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century
by: Pauline Wengeroff

Softcover. University Press of Maryland, 2000, Softcover, 306 pages. Memoir (translated from the German by Henny Wenkart) of a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, with scholarly introduction and analysis. Pauline Wengeroff's memoir tells what it was like to be a Jewish girl and a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, as foundations of faith and tradition eroded around her. Clean copy.

Record # 380148

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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by: Anderson, M. T. - Product Image

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
by: Anderson, M. T.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 464 pages. The storytelling is captivating, describing how Shostakovich began composing the symphony under relentless bombardment in Leningrad and later finished it in Moscow, its triumphant performance in Leningrad during the siege, and how it rallied worldwide sympathy for Russia's plight. Music is at the heart of the story. As Anderson writes in the prologue, "it is a story about the power of music and its meanings," and he communicates them with seeming effortlessness in this brilliantly written, impeccably researched tour de force. A triumphant story of bravery and defiance that will shock and inspire. Many b&w illustrations.

Record # 371551

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The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky (SIGNED COPY)by: Andrew D. Kaufman  - Product Image

The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky (SIGNED COPY)
by: Andrew D. Kaufman

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Andrew Kaufman's newest book tells the amazing story of the relationship between Anna Snitkina and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Kaufman's research is thorough, and he has unearthed and translated relevant documents into English, some for the first time. Much of the story he tells is completely unknown to the general public. Scholars of Russian literature may know bits and pieces of it, but Kaufman brings the bits and pieces together with newly discovered documentation to flesh out the captivating story, turning the spotlight on Anna as an intelligent, independent woman who devotes her life completely to facilitating Dostoevsky's literary success and protecting his legacy. INSCRIBED BY KAUFMAN on title page.

Record # 372607

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To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenterby: Bukovsky, Vladimir - Product Image

To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter
by: Bukovsky, Vladimir

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 436 pages, in an unclipped dust jacket. The autobiography of a Russian dissenter who spent 12 years in prison and labor camps before his expulsion in 1976. Scarce. Mild stain to text block edge, not affecting inside pages.

Record # 359144

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Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningradby: Krasovskaya, Vera  - Product Image

Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningrad
by: Krasovskaya, Vera

Hardcover. Gainesville FL, University Press of Florida, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, b&w photos. Biography of the Russian ballet dancer and teacher Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951).

Record # 359505

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