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London: George Allen & Unwin [ca. 1930]. 670pp. Red cloth, ex-Harvard University Business School/Baker Library. (They appear to be content with just on-line access). A treasure trove of information about the Soviet Union of the time: advertisements, statistics, tariffs, a who's who, fold-out map and charts, and so on.

618pp; last sheet uncut (so no one has read how it ends). Published in the Soviet Novel Series. Sarkakov was primarily a party official of little literary reputation; his works are set in Siberia.

Scott, John. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Bloomington: Indiania University Press [1989]. xxv, 306p.Enlarged edition prepared by Stephen Kotkin, Wrappers, a little bit dogeared. Later printing. A first person acount by an American of five years as a worker devel0ping Magnitogorsk. First published in 1942. Introduction by Stephen Kotkin,

Moscow: Progress Publishers [1973]. First printing in English of this famous Soviet spy novel. Jacket has glue residue from an old sticker on front.

London: John Calder [1987]. 352pp. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Someone inked "proxy war" on ffep.

New York: Stein and Day, [c.1965]. Book club edition. Hardcover, jacket is a bit age-spotted.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Former owner's name blacked out on front paste-down; otherwise very good edition of this classic work of anti-stalinist fiction. Translated from the French by Williard R. Trask.40

187pp plus several pages of announcements. Jacket has been taped around the edges. Translators are Robert Dagliesh and Yelena Altshuler.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. 436pp. Hardcover wtih dust jacket. Ex-library. Solid enough but not attractive. Shtemenko was Deputy Chief of Staff of the United Soviet Armed Forces, directly under Stalin.

Dunedin: Stone, Son, and Co., 1894. 106pp. Red cloth binding, spine a bit faded but gold lettering still clear and bright. A remembrance written later in life of the author's traveling out to India in 1845 - before the Suez Canal - to take a position as an engineer.

Small, Abner. The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion 1861 - 1865. A reproduction of the edition originally published in Portland, ME by Thurston & Co. in 1886. iii, 323p.The reprint includes a list of other sources on the 16th Maine. The regiment lost heavily at Fredericksburg; at Gettysburg they were essentially sacrificed on the first day to buy time for the Union withdrawal through the town.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1971. 265pp. Wrappers. Pages rippled.

A fine leather binding, with border and school crest on front cover. ornate tooling on spine, marbled endpages, marbled edges. Two volumes bound in one. Inscribed: To Frank Wheler | Prize for German | Middle School | June '65 | LHS (?).From the Rugby School Register, Vol 2 (1902) page 221: Entered February 1863.Wheler, Francis Henry, son of Major-General Sir Francis Wheler, Bart., (O.R., 1810), Pembridge Villas, London, W., aged 14, July 2. Left 1865.Formerly in the 81st Regiment. Retired as Lieutenant-Colonel, 1888. Served in the Affghan War, 1878-79. Present at the capture of Ali Musjid. Medal with Clasp. Of 114, Lansdowne Place, Hove.Likely unread.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. No date. 323pp plus a brief afterward about the author. Set during the turmoil in the Ukraine in 1920.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press [c.1977]. 204pp. Hardcover with dust jacket in clear plastic protector. Very good condition.