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Old Massas People
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THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.
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The People Of The Mist
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H. Rider Haggard, Longmans Green & Co., London. The People of the Mist: First Edition September, 1894. Reprinted January, 1895. USED. Good+/ No DJ Included. Green boards with gold gilt titling , jagged mountains and red diamond graphic design. Spine has darkened somewhat. 5 x 7 1/2. 357 PAGES plus adverts. ADVENTURE FICTION ROMANCE. VICTORIAN NOVEL. Summary: "The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god." By the author of "She" and "King Solomon's Mines".
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Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944 1st. Edition, Stated 23rd Printing Thus. BANNED BOOK. USED. VG/VG Dust jacket. Author photo back panel. Now protected in a mylar wrap. About this book: Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was originally "Jordan is so Chilly", with Smith later changing the title to Strange Fruit.
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The Conquerors of the New World and Their Bondsmen: Being a Narrative of the Principle Events Which Led To Negro Slavery in The West Indies and America . TWO VOLUMES
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London: William Pickering, 1848. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. x, 264; 334 pages. TWO VOLUME SET.Volume one is 1848, volume two is 1852. Hardcovers bound in original brown cloth with white paper title labels on the spines. The bindings are rubbed and bumped, and the spine ends are fraying. There is also some splitting on the outer rear hinge of Vol. I. The labels are toned, rubbed and chipped. Damping on the rear board of volume one and the front board of volume two. There is a prior owner's 20th century bookplate on the front pastedown of both volumes. Hinges are secure. Some slight damping at the lower right corner of the text block on both volumes, not affecting the text. Text is toned. Publisher's four-page catalogue at the front of each volume.
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THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.
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H. Rider Haggard, Longmans Green & Co., London. The People of the Mist: First Edition September, 1894. Reprinted January, 1895. USED. Good+/ No DJ Included. Green boards with gold gilt titling , jagged mountains and red diamond graphic design. Spine has darkened somewhat. 5 x 7 1/2. 357 PAGES plus adverts. ADVENTURE FICTION ROMANCE. VICTORIAN NOVEL. Summary: "The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god." By the author of "She" and "King Solomon's Mines".
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Smith, Lillian. Strange Fruit. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944 1st. Edition, Stated 23rd Printing Thus. BANNED BOOK. USED. VG/VG Dust jacket. Author photo back panel. Now protected in a mylar wrap. About this book: Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. The title was originally "Jordan is so Chilly", with Smith later changing the title to Strange Fruit.
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London: William Pickering, 1848. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. x, 264; 334 pages. TWO VOLUME SET.Volume one is 1848, volume two is 1852. Hardcovers bound in original brown cloth with white paper title labels on the spines. The bindings are rubbed and bumped, and the spine ends are fraying. There is also some splitting on the outer rear hinge of Vol. I. The labels are toned, rubbed and chipped. Damping on the rear board of volume one and the front board of volume two. There is a prior owner's 20th century bookplate on the front pastedown of both volumes. Hinges are secure. Some slight damping at the lower right corner of the text block on both volumes, not affecting the text. Text is toned. Publisher's four-page catalogue at the front of each volume.
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Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
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Washington: Howard University Press, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Xv, 201 Pp. Red Cloth Stamped In Black. First Printing. Fine, No Wear Or Marks. Dj Price Clipped, Light Wear At Corners, 1" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Negotiating with the Soviets
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Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and Institute with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, September 1989. Trade paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Slight reading wear to lower corners, otherwise Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 148 pages.
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SOVIET POLITICAL THOUGHT: AN ANTHOLOGY
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Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & spine, bumping to spine ends, scuffing to rear cover else still bright, intact and whole.
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Dmitry: Called the Pretender, Tsar and Great Prince of all Russia, 1605-1606
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1966. Hardcover. Photographs. Maps and tables by Samuel H. Bryant. Index, bibliography. Black cloth binding. Map endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .
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Moscow, 1951. COLOR ATLAS OF APPLES BASED ON TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY IVAN MICHURIN BEFORE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 10 1/4 inches tall volume with original navy flexible cloth covered boards, cover with blindstamped image of apple, and gilt title; gilt title to spine, decorative endpapers with sepia orchard scene. 130 black & white figures throughout text, and 32 colored plates of apples and pears. Corners and spine ends rubbed, very good. IVAN VLADIMIROVICH MICHURIN (1855 – 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. Michurin was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins, cultivating methods in connection with the natural course of ontogenesis, directing the process of predominance, evaluation and selection of seedlings, and acceleration of the process of…
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COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS. Five Hundred New Varieties of Apples and Pears Developed in the USSR
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Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1966. COLOR PICTORIAL ATLAS OF APPLES AND PEARS DEVELOPED IN THE USSR DURING THE KRUSCHEV AND BREZHNEV ADMINISTRATIONS. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed gilt images of apple and pear and gilt title to cover and spine; 255 pages with 64 colored plates, each picturing 2 to 4 varieties. Corners bumped, marginal browning to endpapers, no dust jacket; very good. Text in Russian. From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow Society of Nature Experimenters.
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Michael Strogoff: The Courier Of The Czar (PHOTOPLAY EDITION)
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Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.
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Russian Realities: Being Impressions Gathered During Some Recent Journeys in Russia
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London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Good in Fair dust jacket; Front boards and spine waterstained, boards . worn, owner name on front free endpaper, pages toned, jacket toned and . tattered and split in two.. 1915. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt. Green topstain. xv, 271pp. 9.5 x 13 inch folding map of Russia at rear. 16 photo reproductions. The author relates his travels through European regions of Russia in the years just before the Revolution, based on eleven short trips between 1910-1915. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Lenin for Beginners (Pantheon Documentary Comic Books)
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New York: Pantheon, March 1979. Trade Paperback. First Revised American Edition (stated) / first printing (no additional printings listed). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, very tight, and uncreased. Corners sharp. Very slight edge wear is the only thing keeping this from being As New. Its hard to imagine a 40+ year-old book in better condition than this. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 172 pages. Lenin is the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. His dream was the creation of the world's first Socialist state. It was a short-lived dream that became a nightmare when Stalin rose to absolute power in 1929. Lenin was the avant-garde revolutionary who adapted Marxist theory to the practical realities of a vast, complex and backward Russia.
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The Intimate Diary of a Russian Woman: My Search for Meaning in the Midst of My Country's Upheaval
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New York, William Morrow & Co, 1992, hardcover, 236 pp, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the half-title page, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Straight. tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge bumps, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. A young woman writes candidly of a choice she feels she must make, between her country's uncertain future, and the promise of life in the West. Translation by Antonina W. Bouis. ISBN 9780688104160
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