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New York: The Viking Press, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 247 x 167 mm), 220 pages, in green and tan cloth, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover), accompanied by four photographic prints. An account of a trip to the Soviet Union in 1947 by author John Steinbeck and photographer… Read more about this item

n.p.: Intourist, Inc., 1939. Red folder measuring 4 x 5 3/4 inches (150 x 113 mm) containing 10 post cards. Souvenir folder issued to commemorate the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The folder consists of 10 post cards in black-and-white, with descriptions in English, French, and Russian on the verso of each card. Perhaps not surprisingly, two of… Read more about this item

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1939. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 62, [2] pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). Attack on Soviet communism by Arnold Petersen, who was a leader of the Socialist Labor Party. The SLP was a bitter foe of the Communists, claiming they had abandoned Marxism. CONDITION: Vertical crease… Read more about this item

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1946. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. The author, Eric Hass, maintains that the Soviet brand of socialism is not socialism at all. Instead, he says, the USSR is an imperialist power bent on domination of other countries. Hass was a Socialist Labor… Read more about this item

Moscow: Various Publishers, 1930s. Thirty black-and-white postcards, each measuring 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches (147 x 98 mm), all unused and unmounted. A collection of postcards depicting scenes in Moscow during the tumultuous 1930s, when Stalin was expanding his power and killing off his opponents. The scenes include workers' houses, hotels, department stores, and cathedrals that the Bolsheviks closed… Read more about this item

Shershenevich, Vadim. Igor Ilyinsky. Moscow: Kinopechat, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. 24mo (5 7/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 150 x 110 mm), 14, [2] pages in photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. An illustrated booklet on comic actor Igor Ilyinsky (1901-1987) in the Kinopechat series. Ilyinsky was associated with the Meyerhold Theatre, most notably as Bruno in Fernand Crommelynck's "Magnanimous Cuckold." He also… Read more about this item

Voznesensky, Andrei. Antiworlds and The Fifth Ace. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (9 x 6 1/4 inches; 227 x 158 mm), xxiii, [1], 296 pages, in black cloth, titles to spine in pink and red, pink topstain, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010) in black marker across the… Read more about this item

Glinka, M.I. Ivan Susanin [A Life for the Tsar]. Moscow: Bolshoi Theatre, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Single printed sheet folded to create [4] pages, measuring 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches (163 x 106 mm) when folded. Rare playbill for the opera Ivan Susanin, performed at the Bolshoi Theatre, on September 26, 1943. This was a notable production because it… Read more about this item

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich. Lebedinoye Ozero [Swan Lake]. Moscow: Bolshoi Theatre, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Single sheet, printed recto only, measuring 8 1/8 x 5 inches (205 x 126 mm). Rare playbill for Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which took place at the Bolshoi Theatre's Main Stage in Moscow on September 28, 1943. This was a notable production because it came two… Read more about this item

No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create [4]-page leaflet measuring 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches (120 x 82 mm) when folded. Small leaflet in English inviting subscriptions to various Soviet publications, including Moscow Daily News, USSR in Construction, Quarterly Review, and Soviet Travel. Also offered are maps, postcards, and dictionaries. Prices listed in U.S. dollars. The leaflet is undated, but… Read more about this item

Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. 16mo (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches; 170 x 115 mm), 27, [1] pages in stapled wrappers. A lecture on the politicization of science and the controversy over genetics in the Soviet Union. The author, Harriet B. Creighton, was a professor of botany at Wellesley College. "Only an informed and alert… Read more about this item

West Haven, Connecticut: Foundation for Promoting Enduring Peace, [1952?]. No Edition Stated. Single sheet folded to create [4] pages, each measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 216 mm). Rare leaflet on U.S.-Soviet relations, from a Christian Left perspective. The author pleads for better understanding of Russian history, arguing that the country has made great strides since the… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. SIGNED by John Gunther on the half-title page. Gunther's acclaimed account of politics and everyday life in the Soviet Union in the years immediately following Stalin's death. He also deals with the arts as well as foreign policy, Khrushchev's secret speech, and the crushing of the Hungarian revolt. 8vo, xxiv, 550… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 1985. 2nd Printing. A distinguished historian explains Soviet behavior, rejecting both right-wing as well as some left-wing revisionist arguments. Probably one of the most balanced accounts available at the time of publication in 1985. Octavo, pp. xiii, [5], 411. Very Good, with some minor soiling along the top edge, a small ink mark on page… Read more about this item