Nearing the End in Imperial Russia

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles; 479pp; frontispiece and nine unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, Very Good or better copy with mild external rubbing, bit of dulling to spine gilt, and a 1940 ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket ("Robertson / San Francisco") inside rear board. Memoir of George Thomas Marye, the last pre-Revolutionary American Ambassador to Russia (1914-1916). (Inventory #: 85095)