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This is a stated first edition (1978) of A Captive of Time: My Years With Pasternak. It is the memoirs of the Russian poet Olga Ivinskaya (1912-1995), who was Boris Pasternak's mistress and the woman upon whom 'Lara' is based, in Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago. 462 pages, lots of photos There are a few little marks here and there, just on the covers… Read more about this item

This is a first edition (1966) of The Birds Fall Down, by the English writer Rebecca West (Dame Cicily Fairfield 1892-1983). It was published that year by Viking; this copy was issued by the Book of the Month club the same year. It is a political thriller, historical novel and family saga. A psychological mystery about Russian revolutionaries preparing to overthrow… Read more about this item

This is a near-perfect copy of Crime and Punishment, by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881). He wrote it in 1866; it remains one of the most influential and widely-read novels in Russian literature. It is the story of a man who commits a murder and is then tortured by guilt. This copy was published in the US in 2000.… Read more about this item

This is the March 1992 issue of Harper's Magazine. See Table of Contents Scans Revisiting Havana Russia: Snow, Shortages, Dread and Metaphor Arctic Images and Encounters John Kenneth Galbraith on The Politics & the Culture of Contentment 82 Pages The original mailing label is on the cover. There is a little ink transfer on the cover. The Double Acrostic was completed. The paper has… Read more about this item

Vanity Fair, April 2012 Cover: Julia Roberts See Table of Contents Scans Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Charlotte CasiraghiWashington PostSunnylandsAngela Lansbury 232 Pages The magazine hasn't been read, but there's some minor creasing, from improper storage.

The Crimean War was a brutal conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance made up of the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, Sardinia and France. The immediate cause of the war involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on eye witness… Read more about this item

This is an unread copy of Rise of Russia, part of the Great Ages of Man series which Time-Life Books began publishing in the 60s. This book was written in 1967 by former CIA officer Robert Wallace; Time-Life's editors updated it and it was republished in 1977. This book was well received. It covers the period of Russia… Read more about this item

This is a first, and likely the only, edition of Three Short Novels by Ivan Turgenev, published in 1957 by The Foreign Languages Publishing House, a state-run publisher in the Soviet Union that published Russian literature, novels, propaganda, and books about the USSR in foreign languages. It was dissolved in 1964. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer,… Read more about this item

This novel was first published in Paris, in Russian, in 1962, under the title PODVIG (The Feat). When it was first translated, it was titled The Exploit. In 1971, that was changed to Glory when McGraw-Hill published the first North American edition. This copy is one of those 1971 first editions. It is about a Russian emigre's escape from Russia, his education… Read more about this item

Fathers and Sons, aka Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev (1818 – 1883). It is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century. The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov, a nihilist who rejects the old order. This… Read more about this item

This is Chekhov: Stories I (or Anton Chekhov, Stories Volume I) published in 1969 by Edito Service for Heron Books. See photo 5 for Contents. It is dark red leather (or leatherette, I'm not sure) with an ornate gold design on the cover and spine. There is a bound-in yellow silk bookmark. There are many original black and… Read more about this item

This is a first edition of The True Blue: The Life and Adventures of Colonel Fred Burnaby 1842-85, written by the British soldier and fellow adventurer Michael Alexander (1920-2004). This is one of the original copies, from the UK print run; most copies on the market now are from the 1958 American printing. This is a rollicking biography of the larger-than-life… Read more about this item

LEO TOLSTOY SHORT STORIES Edited by Ernest J Simmons, Modern Library 1964 This is 14 stories (plus a map)—it is a collection of the stories that Tolstoy completed before he started writing War & Peace. (see photo of contents) Dark Blue Boards with a impressed design on the cover and bright gold lettering on the spine. As you can see, there is a bump… Read more about this item

This is the second edition of this book; the first was in Russian. This is the first English edition. It's an interesting piece of post-WWII Soviet history. It was published in 1947 by the The Foreign Languages Publishing House, a state-run publisher in the Soviet Union that published Russian literature,novels, propaganda, and books about the USSR… Read more about this item

This is a first edition of the First Circle, a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), published by Harper & Row in 1968, before he was expelled from the Soviet Union. This is also a limited edition, as Solzhenitsyn rewrote much of it before he died; the new version was published in 2009. The book is highly autobiographical; it depicts the… Read more about this item

August 1914 is a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography, and has given rise to extensive and often bitter controversy, both from the literary as well as from the historical point… Read more about this item