Politics from Berthoff Books

Bantam Books, 1974. Soft cover. Fair. 623 pages, with index, bibliography. Paperback edition of book published early that year. Introduction by Robert Conquest. Sixteen pages of b&w photos. General history and profile of the Soviet intelligence agency, including description of its structure, as well as accounts of famous Cold War incidents, assassinations, etc. Mass-market paperback, exterior beat-up with tear at… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Company, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 230 pages, with index, bibliography. From jacket blurb: "A portrait of the most praised and vilified of modern Churchmen--Metropolitan Nikolai of the Russian Orthodox Church--and of the dilemma he faced as religious leader in a militantly secular society." 8vo, deep red cloth with gilt lettering, maroon topstain, rough-cut edges,… Read more about this item

Vintage Books, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 223 pages. Translated from Russian by Ellen de Kadt. First Vintage paperback edition of book published the year before. The account by brothers Zhores Medvedev, a biochemist, and historian Roy Medvedev of Zhores's involuntary hospitalization for his political activity, and Roy's efforts to obtain his release. Mass-market paperback, wear to corners, edges and page… Read more about this item

Crane Russak, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 109 pages, with bibliography. Preface by Prof. Menachem Amir. Profile of the late-Soviet ruling strata, written half a decade before the USSR's demise. Trade paperback, scant wear, spine sunned, small nick in front cover, very faint foxing to top edge. Pages unmarked.

Mansell Publishing Ltd, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine. 184 pages. Essays include surveys of UK archival sources, profiles of individual archives, and accounts of sources available for research on specific topics like Anglo-Russian relations in the 18th century. 8vo, glossy paper over boards, practically no visible wear, tiny soil spots on top edge and in the margin of one page; pages… Read more about this item

Scribner, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 567 pages, with index. First Scribner trade paperback of book published 2003. "With a new afterword". Illustrated with more than 130 b&w photos on plates. Hilary Clinton's autobiography up through Bill Clinton's second term. Eighteen-point "Reading Group Guide" at the end. Large trade paperback (9-1/8" x 6-1/8"), slight curl to wraps, 1/4"… Read more about this item

McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 180 pages. First printing stated. Eleven b&w illustrations - photos and document facsimiles. Account, written pseudonymously by the Czech former communist and former official in the Masaryk government Josef B. Heisler who had emigrated to the UK, of the Cold War disappearance of Cdr Lionel Crabb while diving to… Read more about this item

Vintage Books (Random House), 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. 638 pages, with index, bibliography, note on sources. The book by Washington insider reporter Bernstein came out the previous year, when Hillary Clinton was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination against Barack Obama. Trade paperback, practically unworn, touch of dust soil to top edge. Pages bright and unmarked. … Read more about this item

Mightee Ltd/International Times, 2012. Soft cover. Near Fine. 92 pages. Anti-monarchist verses and quotations. Trade paperback with no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Gateway (Henry Regnery Company), 1951. Soft cover. Good. 373 pages, with Note by translator and editor Phyllis Penn Kohler, Introduction by Walter Bedell Smith. The French aristocrat's memoir of his journey to Russia in 1839. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear and soil to wraps, text block quite brown with age, a few accidentally dog-eared pages. No marks observed within.… Read more about this item

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1953. Soft cover. Good. 502 pages, with index. First Doubleday Anchor paperback edition of collection of essays on socialism first published 1940. Touches on Michelet, Vico, Anatole France, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Marx, Engels, Lassalle, Bakunin, Lenin and Trotsky. Mass-market paperback, wear to corners, spine creased and sunned, a few pages dog-eared. Name of former owner and… Read more about this item

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 375 pages, with index. Third impression of British first edition of 1934. Translated from Italian by Henry Furst. Includes chapters on the Romantic Movement, Liberalism, German consolidation, the lead-up to World War I. 8vo, red cloth with almost completely rubbed away gilt lettering on spine, wear at crown, corners… Read more about this item

Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 338 pages plus xviii front-matter pages including Preface and Introduction by the editor. Memoirs by the Russian aristocrat, geographer and anarchist, originally written in English during his long exile, after 1874, in western Europe and England. Mass-market paperback, wraps age-tanned, wear includes horizontal scratch on front cover, original price blacked out… Read more about this item

Collier Books, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 349 pages, with index, select bibliography. Pre-history of the Russian Revolutions, from Radishchev's social criticism and the Decembrists, through utopian socialism, populism, late-nineteenth century terrorist movements. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear, stain on spine, 1/2" chip at heel, crease to top corner of back cover, small ink marks on fore-edge, a few pages… Read more about this item

The Universal Library (Grosset & Dunlap ), 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. 486 pages, with Bibliography and Index. 1971 printing of 1965 edition, book first published 1961. The book touches on the influences of Schiller, Ogaryov, Schelling, Saint-Simon, Hegel, George Sand, the 1848 revolutions, Slavophiles, and Westernizers. Trade paperback, decorative pattern on inside covers, wraps worn/rubbed/creased, binding supple.… Read more about this item

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 216 pages, with Bibliographical Essay, Index. Covers 19th-century movements, from the Decembrists through populism and nihilism, and the first two decades of the 20th century on the eve of the Russian revolutions. Trade paperback, wraps shelf-worn, rubbed along spine. Name of former owner written on half-title along with notes,… Read more about this item

Henry Holt and Company, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 397 pages, with index and glossary of names. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson, with his introduction and preface; also an author's preface for this first English paperback edition. Letters by Czech playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel, later President of the Czech Republic, to his wife - the… Read more about this item

Schocken Books, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 335 pages, with index, list of illustrations, author's Preface, Introduction to the 1968 Edition by Herbert Read, Appendix of Additional Notes and Documents related to Spanish history, 122 b&w reproductions of Goya's works. First Schocken edition of book originally published 1948. Trade paperback, creases to spine and (diagonal) front wrap, light soil… Read more about this item

International Publishers, 1952. Soft cover. Very Good. 32 pages, with Explanatory Notes. Includes "Leo Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution." 5-3/8" x 8" pamphlet stapled in light-weight card wraps, age-toned, staples rusty, old price in pencil on front cover and stamped on back, foxing to edges extends onto page margins and front cover in a couple… Read more about this item

Grove Press, 1955. Soft cover. Good. 305 pages, with pronunciation guide to names of the characters in the novel. E-27 - an early book in Grove's Evergreen Books series. In Turgenev's last novel, published 1877, the protagonists are Russian revolutionary populists. Trade paperback, creases to spine and corners, shelf wear, rubbing along spine, front cover slightly separated but… Read more about this item