A Broadside, in Which Grand Duke Kiril Vladimirovich Proclaims Himself Guardian of the Sovereign’s Throne
by Romanov, Kirill Vladimirovich
Saint-Briac: By the author, 1922. Softcover. First edition; 18 ½†x 12 ¼†; newsprint, single sheet, recto only; folded, with intersecting crease lines; a few small nicks and cuts to edges; light, uniform age-toning; ruled with an intricate border and a stylized drawing of a crown; illustrated with two large photographs of Kirill and his wife Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Feodorovna; very good condition. An, apparently, unrecorded piece of the Russian Imperial Family’s history, the... Read More
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Spovid buvshoho tsaria (Confession of the Former Tsar)
by Romanov, Nikolai
Winnipeg, Canada: Nakladom "Ruskoi knyharni", 1918. First Edition. Very good. First Ukrainian edition, translated from Russian, n. d. (ca 1918); 7 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 4-64; green wraps, printed and ruled in black; a few nicks to fore-edge and a small chip to corner of front wrap; thin strip of foxing to margin of back wrap; overall in very good condition. Allegedly, written by the the last Emperor of Russia Nikolai II Romanov as an explanation to the... Read More
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Predhrimia. Poezii (Thunderstorm. Poetry)
by Romen, Levko (pseud. for Kovalskyi, Stepan)
Filiadelfiia: Nakladom prykhylnykiv avtora, 1953. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 3-63, [1]; pictorial wraps by Mykola Bytynskyi; mild age-toning to margins and a few tiny nicks to edges; in very good condition. Stepan Kovalskyi (1893 - 1981) was a Ukrainian poet, who fought with the UNR army, before immigrating - first to Germany, then to Canada, where he continued writing and working on the editorial board of "Svitannia" magazine. The wraps of the... Read More
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Ronrico Chico's "A" to "Z" Drink Guide
by Ronrico
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ronrico Corporation, 1950. Good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1950); 6 x 3 1/4; pp. 1-20; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with small drawings; a few creases and closed cuts to edges; a small chip to fore-edge of front wrap; in good condition. Published as an advertisement for the Ronrico Puerto Rican rums, the booklet presented various cocktail recipes, including El Presidente, Hot Buttered Ronrico, etc.
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The Secret Memoirs of the Duc De Roquelaure Written By Himself Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English in Four Volumes
by Roquelaure, Gaston-Jean-Baptiste, Duc de
S. l.: Privately Printed, 1896. Hardcover. First edition thus, limited to 1000 numbered copies, 500 of which are for America (this set # 438); 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 383, 376, 373, 369 respectively; cream parchment over boards; embossed, ruled, and decorated in gilt; a bit of rubbing to tips of spine and corners; uniform age-toning to spines and margins of boards; deckled page edges; overall in very good condition. Bookplates to front boards verso of Dr. Robert... Read More
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Willimantic Spool Cotton Thread Salesman Business Card and Card Holder
by Rose, Nelson
Willimantic, CT: Willimantic Spool Cotton Company, 1866. Very good. Card holder with a single business card, (ca 1866); holder - 2 x 3 1/2; two card stock sheets hinged with a textured strip of cloth; lithographed and decorated in red, black, and gilt; salesman's name in manuscript penciled to verso; small loss of cloth to upper right corner and a small spot to back panel; in very good condition; business card - salmon-colored stock with the name of... Read More
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N. Y. K. (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) Line. Asama Maru - the Farthest Advance in Trans - Pacific Shipping
by Rothe, Lewis
Chicago: Poole Bros., Inc., 1929. First Edition. Good. Large, die-cut brochure; 8 x 17 1/2; pp. 2-18; brick-red wraps, decorated with a vignette in black and gold; illustrated with numerous gilded and tinted drawings and photographs, including a fold-out diagram at the end; a few small punctures to edges from removed staples (minor loss of paper to top edge of first leaf); tissue guard at the beginning detached, but present; very-thin, silk strip between pages 2 and 3;... Read More
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N. Y. K. (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) Line. Asama Maru - the Farthest Advance in Trans - Pacific Shipping
by Rothe, Lewis
Large, die-cut brochure; 8 x 17 1/2; pp. 2-18; brick-red wraps, decorated with a vignette in black and gold; illustrated with numerous gilded and tinted drawings and photographs, including a fold-out diagram at the end; a few small punctures to edges from removed staples (minor loss of paper to top edge of first leaf); tissue guard at the beginning detached, but present; very-thin, silk strip between pages 2 and 3; in good to very good condition. A stunning piece, it was... Read More
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Ledianye Nochi (Icy Nights)
by Rozenfeld, Mikh. (Mikhail); [Illustrated by] Pernikov, Efim
Moskva (Moscow): Molodaia Gvardiia, 1934. Second edition; 7" x 5"; pp. [5], 6-172, [4]; pictorial blue cloth over card stock wraps; illustrated with photographs; light fading to spine cover and margins; mild, uniform age-toning to pages; in very good or better condition. Icy Nights was Russian journalist Mikhail Rozenfeld's personal account of the Arctic rescue expedition of the icebreaker Malygin by EPRON (Special Operations Underwater Rescue Party). The book’s cover art was created by Constructivist artist and graphic designer Efim... Read More
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[Scientific Atheism] Pravda o "Chudesnykh" Istseleniiakh [The Truth About the "Wondrous" Healings]
by Rozhnova, M. A. and Rozhnov, V.
Moscow: Meditsina, 1968. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. 3-46, [2] including text to last page; pictorial wraps; faint crease to upper margin, else very minor wear; illustrated with 4 full-page caricatures; near fine. A veiled but powerful anti-religious propaganda pamphlet and a splendid example of the Scientific Atheism movement in the Soviet Union. It describes the progress of science in general and the therapeutic use of hypnosis in particular while simultaneously trashing the religious myths of divine healing and... Read More
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Sredi tain i chudes (Among Mysteries and Wonders)
by Rubakin, N. A.
New York: Izdanie Ispolnitelnogo Komiteta Professionalnykh Soiuzov, 1923. Second Edition. Very good. Second, improved edition; 8 1/2 x 6; pp. [4], 2-236, [1]; dark-blue cloth over boards; embossed title in gilt; minor rubbing to spine and corners; a few faint spots to margins of cloth and first few leaves; several marginal, penciled-in notes; illustrated with 92 in-line drawings and photographic images; very good condition. Nikolai Rubakin (1862 - 1946) was a Russian author and bibliographer. He published numerous works... Read More
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Spivomovky (Vybrani tvory)
by Rudanskyi, S.
Regensburg: Vidannia Spilki "Ukrainske Mistetstvo" kooperativa z obmezh porukoiu v Regensburzi, 1946. Softcover. First edition thus; 5 1/2 x 4; pp. 64; beige and black wraps; small cut to head of spine; mild age-toning and spotting to back wrap; portrait frontis; previous owner's personal stamp to title page; very good condition. A DP (displaced persons) camp publication of what is considered the best work of Ukrainian poet Stepan Rudanskii (1833-1873). He studied theology, but dropped out in favor of writing... Read More
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Ukrainskyi pravopys (Ukrainian Spelling)
by Rudnytskyi, Dr. Iaroslav
Praha (Prague): Knihtisk, 1942. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 4 1/4; pp. [2], 5-25, [3]; rebound in speckled, olive paper over boards and 3/4 blue leatherette; two small, later, typed labels with title and author's name to front board and spine; minor foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves; penciled-in, manuscript note to pp. 5; in very good condition. Iaroslav Rudnytskyi, alt. spelling Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910 - 1995) was a Ukrainian-Canadian author, folklorist, linguist, lexicographer,... Read More
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Report on a Developing School, and School-Shops, by a Committee Appointed by the American Social Science Association, and Read at Their Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass., January 10, 1877
by Ruggles, S. P.; Phillips, Wendell; et al.
Boston: Press of Rockwell & Churchill, 1877. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. [1], 4-30; blue wraps, printed and ruled in black; two small nicks to bottom edge of front wrap; a bit of wear to tips of spine; minor spotting; in very good condition. The American Social Science Association was founded in 1865 as a society for the study of social questions. The organization would establish the National Institute of Arts and Letters... Read More
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Victim of the Holocaust
by Rullman, Hans Peter
Newark, NJ: Unchain, 1987. Near fine. First English translation, abridged and edited from the German; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 1-80; glossy, pictorial wraps in white, black, and red; illustrated with sketches and facsimile documents; minor wear and age-toning to edges and margins, in about near fine condition. The book describes the story and trial of John Demjanjuk (Ivan Demianiuk) (1920 - 2012) - Ukrainian-American, who in the 1970s and 1980s, was, allegedly, wrongly accused of being "Ivan... Read More
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Bradley & Rulofson's Celebrities
by Bradley & Rulofson
San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, 1876. First Edition. Good. Cabinet card; 4 x 6 1/4; printed key to verso; small nick to lower left corner and a vertical crease through middle; a few minor spots to verso; in good to very good condition. Quite-scarce, early form of photographic art, the so called 'cartes mosaique' was created by Bradley & Rulofson of San Francisco. The studio, which would become known for capturing the images of hundreds of celebrities and notable... Read More
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Smikh Iskariota. Noveli
by Rusalskyi, Vol. (Volodymyr)
S. l. : Svit, 1947. Good. First edition; 6 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. 3-89, [1]; beige wraps, printed in black; spotting and foxing; some loss of paper to spine cover; in about good condition. A DP (displaced persons) camp publication. Volodymyr Rusalskyi, pseudonym for Ivan Hevelenko (1911 - 1957) - journalist and writer; spent significant time of his life in various DP camps in Germany; contributed to the "Literary Criticism" journal; lived the last years of his life... Read More
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Catalogue and Price List of Wiley & Russell Mfg. Co. Manufacturers of Patent Screw - Cutting and Other Labor - Saving Machinery and Tools
by Russell, Chas. P.
Boston, MA: MacIndoe Bros., 1895. First Edition. Good. First edition, n. d. (1895); 5 1/2 x 3 1/2; pp. [1], 4-168; plain black wraps; illustrated with numerous engravings and tables; several spots to title page from wraps being glued too close to text block; occasional mild wear to margins; in good condition. Wiley & Russell Manufacturing Company was established in 1872, by Solon Wiley and Charles P. Russell, to manufacture thread cutting tools and later - tools and machinery... Read More
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Prochten'e Tvorcheskogo Slova [Signed/inscribed posthumously by author's wife - poet Agniia Rzhevskaia]
by Rzhevskii, Leonid Denisovich
New York: New York University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 6" x 9"; pp. [9], 10-275, [1]; original green boards; printed DJ; near fine with minor wear to head and tail of spine and corners. Jacket fair with small chips and some loss of paper to spine edges. Signed and inscribed by Agniia Rzhevskaia to Prof. Anatoly Lieberman. Leonid Rzhevskii was a Russian author, critic, and professor. In 1941 he was captured by the Nazis... Read More
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Moi teatralni zhadky, 1881 - 1917 (My Theatrical Reminiscences, 1881 - 1917)
by Sadovskyi, M. K., (pseud.for) Tobilevych
Kharkiv / Kyiv : Derzhavne vidavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1930. First Edition. Very good. First edition, 1 of 5000 copies; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4; pp. [2], 3-120, [4]; pictorial wraps, designed by Boris Kriukov (Kriukow); illustrated with portrait frontis; age-toning to margins of wraps; a small, closed cut and a few creases to fore-edge of front wrap; text block slightly pulling at front hinge; overall in very good condition. Mykola Sadovskyi-Tobilevich (1856 - 1933) was an actor, singer, director, brother... Read More
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Sobolevskii drug Pushkina
by Saitov, V. I.
Sankt Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Parfenon, 1922. Softcover. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies; 9 1/2 x 6 1/4; pp. [1], 4-46, [2]; off-white, glossy wraps, printed in black; wraps with age-toning and small chips along edges and spine; small label of Russian-French publisher and bookseller Jacques Povolozky to front wrap verso; good to very good condition. Book design by Nikolai Tyrsa.Written by Russian historian, bibliographer, and member of St. Petersburg's Academy of Sciences Vladimir Ivanovich Saitov (1849 - 1938),... Read More
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Dvigateli vnutrennego sgoraniia. Opisanie ikh tipov i glavneishikh chastei v voprosakh i otvetakh (Internal Combustion Engines. Description of Their Types and Main Components in a Question-Answer Format)
by Sakkariia, G. A.
Moskva/Leningrad (Moscow/St. Petersburg): Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, 1928. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition, 1 of 5000 copies; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [1], 4-168; olive wraps, with black and green illustrations; chips with loss of paper to tips of spine; lacking ffep, else complete; a bit of wear to ccorners and edges; illustrated with 102 drawings and photographic images; overall in very good condition. Although Russia had a long history of building complex machinery, going back to the 18th... Read More
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The Coming Great Northern Confederacy or The Future of Russia
by Sale - Harrison, L.
New York: By the author, 1928. Very good. Fifth edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-22, [1]; red wraps, printed and ruled in black; very light fading to margins and previous woner's signature to front wrap; a few minor spots to pages; in very good condition. A bible prophecy by the Australian Evangelical preacher Leonard Sale - Harrison on the future of Russia and Germany, based on Ezekiel 38: 8-9.
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Bembi (Bambi)
by Salten, Felix
Tula: Tulskoe Knizhnoe Izdatelstvo, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Second Russian edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 3-174, [2]; original pictorial boards in bright orange and yellow, depicting Bambi in mid-leap; cloth spine; b & W illustrations; relatively minor rubbing and fading to boards and edges, mostly to margins; slight uniform age-toning to text, else pages clean; good or better condition. Subtitled: "Lesnaia Skazka (Easy Reading)." Bambi was first published in Austria in 1923. Since then, the story of the little... Read More
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Poluraspad minatoma. Albom risunkov. Satira i iumor na iadernuiu temu (Half-life of Minatom. Album of Illustrations. Humor and Satire for Nuclear Topics)
by Samarin, Anatolii
Krasnoiarsk: Grazhdanskii Tsentr iadernogo nerasprostraneniia , 1999. First Edition. Near fine. First edition; 11 1/4 x 8 1/2; pp. [4], 5-39; pictorial wraps and transparent vinyl cover, bound with blue, plastic comb; a small, smudged spot to front cover (removed bookshop label), else minor wear; in near fine condition. Anatolii Samarin (1949 - 2020) was a Russian design engineer, artist, caricaturist, and environmentalist. Whille serving in the military in Krasnoyarsk, he fell in love with Siberia and stayed on... Read More
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