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THE LAND OF RIDDLES. Russia of To-Day
by Ganz, Hugo. Translated from the German and Edited by Herman Rosenthal
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. hardcover. near fine. Octavo, brown cloth covers with gilt titles, top edge gilt. v [2] 331 pages. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. First person account of travels from Germany, through Poland (at that time under Russian control) and into Russia proper.Ganz writes:"For the Pole, Germanization is an ill-fitting garment that only binds; Russianization is a thorn in the flesh, producing pus and throwing the entire system into a fever." One of the stops Ganz made was to visit Leo Tolstoi. Ganz was a German-Jewish political and literary writer and journalist for the German newspaper "Frankfurter Zeiting" and Swiss "Neue Zurcher Zeitung." 092508A
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000019913
- Title
- THE LAND OF RIDDLES. Russia of To-Day
- Author
- Ganz, Hugo. Translated from the German and Edited by Herman Rosenthal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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