Search Results: Russia from Focloir

Russia zar Zabriskie, Edward Henry. American-Russian rivalry in the Far East, a study in diplomacy and power politics, 1895-1914. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946, vii, 226 p, bib, index, incl. front. (map). A good copy in dust jacket -the dust jacket is fair only but did its job in protecting the book. The pages edges have foxing, the page block is clean and tight with no marks noticed. There is also the signature of a previous owner on front free endpaper. $13.50 Box 818

Ancient World 105jka Jettmar, Karl. Art of the Steppes. Translated from the German. Revised edition. (Series: Art of the World). New York: Greystone Press, 1967, 278 pages, illus (some colored), maps, bib, index. The top paper edge was once a little dusty, very good clean, tight copy in like dust jacket. Interesting. $9.50 Box A 105

RU 1035 Kostalevsky, Marina. Dostoevsky and Soloviev: The art of integral vision. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, xii, 224 pp., notes, bibliography, index. Good to very good in like dust jacket. $45.00

RU 1055 Simmons, Ernest J. English literature and culture in Russia (1553-1840). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935, viii p., 3 l., [3]-357p, notes, index. (Harvard studies in comparative literature, vol. XII.) Would be a handsome copy in dust jacket except that at the very top of the cover there was a minor water spill which stains a small part of the cover. The red from the binding has also migrated onto a small section of the top paper edge, near the cover panel. There is a small tear about ¼" inch on the top edge of the front cover panel. The text is very clean, bright and tight. The dust jacket would be very good if it weren't for about half inch missing from the top front cover panel. The dust jacket is in turn protected by a mylar dust jacket. Early contacts: the Anglomania of Ivan the Terrible (1553-1584) -- Russia and England from Boris Godunov to Peter the Great (1584-1682) -- Peter the Great and England; and the period of the favorites (1682-1762) -- Anglomania during the… Read More

Russia ccgl Chadwick,H. Munro and Nora K. Chadwick. The Growth of Literature, Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968, (1936), xvii, 783 pages, index. Good to very good condition in like dust jacket. Originally published in 1936. A very impressive piece of scholarship by two distinguished historians. Heavy volume. $42.50 Box 3
Summary: First published between 1932 and 1940, Volume II only this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written literatures of regions from Iceland and the British Isles, to Russia, the Balkans, Africa, India and the Pacific, placing them in their historical context and examining similarities between them. The authors discuss both ancient and recent texts, illustrating the connections within each group and considering the question of whether all literary growth is influenced by common factors. Praised on publication as ' ... a work that is not, probably could not be, superseded' (International Journal… Read More

Russia hrlb Tschizewskij, Dmitrij, 1894-1977 (Cizevskij, Dmitrij). History of Russian literature from the eleventh century to the end of the Baroque. (Series: Slavistic printings and reprintings, 12). 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1960, 451 pages, plates, ports., facsims, indexes. Cover wear, occasional lines in margins, bookplate (in Russian) of former professor of Russian, good copy overall. $8.50 Box 21

Middle Ages gmgs Gaster, Moses. Ilchester lectures on Greeko-Slavonic literature and its relation to the folk-lore of Europe during the Middle Ages. With two appendices and plates. London: Trubner and Company, 1887, x, 229p. Very good. Signed by Gaster on the title page with a note saying "3.vi.87, 1st copy". Author's own copy? $50.00 Box 27

Russia geste Grégoire, Henri, Roman Jakobson, Marc Szeftel. La geste du prince Igorʹ, épopée russe du douzième siècle. Texte établi, tr. et commenté sous la direction d'Henri Grégoire, de Roman Jakobson et de Marc Szeftel, assistés de J. A. Joffe. Volume offert à Michel Rostovtzeff.(Series:École libre des hautes études à New York. Annuaire de l'Institut de philologie et d'histoire orientales et slaves, t. 8, 1945-1947).New York, J. Rausen, [1948], 383 pages, bib, indexes, map, illus., Two contributions by the great linguist, Roman Jakobson et al.. Good to very good copy of the hardcover. Very uncommon. $50.00 Box 70
Slovo o polku Igoreve
Text
Contents:
Edition critique du Slove
Traduction francaise du Slovo
Essai de reconstruction du Slovo dans la langue originale
Traduction anglaise du Slovo
Traduction polonaise du Slovo
Slovo o polku Igoreve.

RU 1030 Stowell, H. Peter. Literary Impressionism, James and Chekhov. University of Georgia Press, 1980, ix, 272p, notes, bib, index. Good copy in dust jacket. $12.50

Russia cskc Cross, Samuel H. and Kenneth John Conant. Mediaeval Russian churches. Cambridge, Mass: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1949, xiv, 95p, illus, map, bib. (Mediaeval Academy of America. Publication, no. 53). Good, clean, tight copy in tattered dust jacket. $17.50 Box 505
"The text ... is, with trifling editorial changes, the one which ... [the author] prepared for a series of public lectures ... delivered at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, in the fall of 1933."

Asia 1005 Ignatev, Nikolai Pavlovich, graf, 1832-1908. Mission of N.P. Ignatev to Khiva and Bukhara in 1858. (Missii︠a︡ v Khivu i Bukharu v 1858 godu fligelʹ-adi︠u︡tanta polkovnika N. Ignatʹeva). (Series Title: ORP Russia-in-Asia series, no. 1) Edited with notes, introduction, and translated by John L. Evans. Newtonville, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1984, 133 pages, bib, illus. Good solid copy.

RU 1010 Webster, E. M. The Moon Man: Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984, xxv, 421 pages, notes, bib, index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
"This story of an outstandingly strange and interesting man is a triumph of modern biograpny. Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) was one of the most extraordinary of all the nineteenth-century savant-adventurers. a brilliant student of Ernst Haeckel, he embraced the natural sciences at a time when the genius of Darwin was revolutionizing Western cosmology. In his short lifetime he made the whole world his laboratory: sponges in the Red Sea, and the ancestry of sharks, head measurements in New Guinea; Negrito races in Malay jungles; marine life in Sydney Harbor -- all these and a hundred other topics and places engaged his curiosity. 'This is much more than a highly literate recounting of Miklouho-Maclay's expeditionary work it is a fascinating and original study of the psychology of ethnographic research. Its main… Read More

RU 1005 Voyce, Arthur. The Moscow Kremlin, its history, architecture and art treasures. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954, xiv, 147 pages, illustrations, plates, plans, notes, bib, index. Larger volume. Good to very good copy in dust jacket. Occasional light penciling. $12.50

Russia 001 Foust, Clifford M. Muscovite and Mandarin; Russia's trade with China and its setting, 1727-1805. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969, x, 424p, bib, index, illus., maps. Very good in very good dust jacket. $37.50

Russia 002 Lunt, Horace G. Old Church Slavonic grammar. 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1955, xiv, 143p, index. Darkening to endpapers, some shelf wear, good clean copy. $15.00

RU 1020 Bethea, David M., editor. Puskin today. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, viii, 258p, notes, bib, index. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Contributors: A Note on Transliteration Editions Introduction Part I Puskin: Contemporary Critical Views. The Russians Terpsichore's Soul-Filled Flight: Dance Themes in Eugene Onegin/William Mills Todd III. The Queens of Spades and the Open End/Caryl Emerson. Puskin's Easter Triptych: Hermit fathers and immaculate women, Imitation of the Italian, and Secular Power/Sergej Davydov. Bestuzev-Marlinskij's Journey to Revel and Puskin/Simon Karlinsky. The Couvade of Peter the Great: A Psychoanalytic Aspect of: The Bronze Horseman/Daniel Rancour-Laferriere. The Rejected Image: Puskin's Use of Antenantiosis/William E. Harkins. The Role of the Eques in Puskin's Bronze Horseman/David M. Bethea. Part II Puskin: Text and Context. Puskin on His African Heritage: Publication during His Lifetime/J. Thomas Shaw. Odessa-Watershed Year: Patterns in… Read More

RU 49b93 (Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837). Puskin today. Edited by David M. Bethea. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, ix, 258 pages, notes, bib, index. Signature on front free endpaper, not one of the fourteen essayists. Fine in dust jacket. $14.50 Box A93

Russia 007 Jarintzov, Madame N(adine), 1870- Russia: the Country of Extremes. New York: Henry Holt, 1914, xv, 372 pages, illus (all present), index. A good tight copy bound in blue with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, with intermittent damp spotting. $14.50
Contents: The country of extremes.--The past of the Cossacks.--Russian piety and the clergy.--Unorthodoxy and the monastic prisons.--A legend of Alexander I.--The educational revolution in the sixties--and after.--Students' movements and political life.--The assassination of Alexander II.--"Agents provocateurs": the scourge and the problem.--Silhouettes of everyday life.--Glossary of Russian words.--Index.

Russia rlcd Russian tales and legends. Re-told by Charles Downing. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. London: Oxford University Press, 1960, 215p, illus. Some cover wear, good copy of hardcover. $10.00 Box 10

Georgia regk Russian embassies to the Georgian kings (1589-1605). Edited with Introduction, Additional Notes, Commentaries and Bibliography by W. E. D. Allen. Text translated by Anthony D. Mango. (Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., no. 138-139). Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, Cambridge [England], 1970, 2 volumes (xxxii, 640 pages) illustrations (some color), maps (some folded). Two volumes in dust jackets. The jacket for Volume I was water stained with some bleeding through on front cover panel -about the size of a quarter- and to the very bottom of the back cover – a narrow strip. Also, on the bottom paper edge of Volume I are signs of staining. All in all, a good copy of the two-volume work. The set: $21.50 Front hall.
Summary: By the early 16th century, the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarchy of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities.