Catalogue 3 : Russian and European Studies
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Alliluyeva, Svetlana.. 20 Letters to a Friend. London, World Books, 1968. The “only full, authentic text” of Stalin’s daughter’s memoir in the form of a series of letters. An unforgettable picture of life in the Kremlin. Translated from the Russian by Priscilla Johnson. HC/DJ, 254 pp. VG ($10)
Appelfeld, Aharon. The Retreat. London, Quartet, 1985. Classic story of European Jews on a country holiday, on the brink of the Holocaust. By a Bukovinian concentration camp survivor. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici. TPB, 125 pp. G+ ($10)
Banville, John. Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City. London, Bloomsbury, 2003. Irish writer’s essayistic piece on the history & magic of Prague. Elegantly designed with cover photos by Josef Sudek & endpaper map. HC/DJ, 244 pp. VG ($10)
Bengis, Ingrid. Metro Stop Dostoyevsky. NY, North Point Press, 2003. Account of stays in post-Soviet Russia by an opera singer, daughter of Russian emigres. HC/DJ, 337 pp. VG ($9)
Betcherman, Lita-Rose.The Swastika and the Maple Leaf: Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirties. Toronto, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1975. With eight pages of b&w illustrations. HC/DJ, 167 pp. VG ($10)
Blagoy, Dmitry. The Sacred Lyre: Essays on the Life and Work of Alexander Pushkin. Moscow, Raduga, 1982,. A handsome edition in mock leather binding with gold lettering & an attractive jacket. Translated from the Russian by Alex Miller. HC/DJ, 421 pp. VG ($15)
Blake, George. No Other Choice: An Autobiography. London, Jonathan Cape, 1990. Memoirs of one of the key Soviet spies in the West, with an account of his daring escape from prison. With eight pages of photos. HC/DJ, 288 pp. ($18)
Bondarev, Yuri. The Hot Snow. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1976. Russian novel about the battle of Stalingrad, where the author fought as a young artilleryman. Translated by Robert Daglish. Second printing. HC/DJ, 399 pp. VG ($25)
Borowski, Tadeusz. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin, 1977. Classic short stories of the camps by a Polish survivor of Auschwitz & Dachau. Introduction by Jan Kott. Translated from the Polish by Barbara Vedder. MMPB, 180 pp. Slight scuffing to cover but VG ($4)
Bower, Tom. Maxwell the Outsider. London, Mandarin, 1991. Thorough biography of the shady newspaper magnate, born in Carpatho-Ukraine as Abraham Hoch. Includes information on his ties to the Soviet & Israeli power elites. With eight pages of photos. MMPB, 586 pp. ($4)
Brien, Alan. Lenin: The Novel. NY, William Morrow, 1987. Epic novel of Lenin & the Russian revolution. First US edition. HC/DJ, 735 pp. VG ($20)
Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew. NY, Hill & Wang, 1998. HC/DJ, 325 pp. F ($10)
Bulgakov, Mikhail. The White Guard. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1971. The classic novel of a family in crisis in a doomed city - Kiev during the Russian civil war. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny, with an epilogue by Viktor Nekrasov. HC/DJ, 320 pp. Small tear to jacket. VG ($13)
Bunin, Ivan. Cursed Days: A Diary of Revolution. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1998. The great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, by the Nobel Prize winner. Translated from the Russian, with Introduction & notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. HC/DJ, 286 pp. VG ($18)
Caute, David. The Fellow Travellers: A Postscript to the Enlightenment. NY, Macmillan, 1973. Excellent overview of intellectual sympathizers with the USSR including some of the most famous writers, scholars, scientists & politicians of the 20th Century. HC/DJ, 433 pp. Some dings & a repair to jacket but inside VG ($15)
Charters, Ann and Samuel.I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Biographical study of the Russian poet, particularly his relations with the Briks, the couple with whom he lived. With many photos & other illustrations. First edition. HC/DJ, 398 pp. VG ($20)
Chatwin, Bruce. Utz. NY, Viking, 1989. First U.S. edition. Novel about a part-Jewish porcelain collector who survived the German & Soviet occupations of Czechoslovakia. HC/DJ, 154 pp. VG ($10)
Chukovskaya, Lydia. Sofia Petrovna. London, Collins Harvill, 1989. Classic novel of Leningrad in the 1930's & a family caught up in the communist purges. Originally published as The Empty House. Cover illustration by Egor Yudin. TPB, 128 pp. ($20)
Cohon, George with David Macfarlane. To Russia With Fries. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1997. Memoir by the head of McDonald’s in Canada and Russia. With 24 pages of illustrations. Introduction by Mikhail Gorbachev. HC/DJ, 335 pp. Previous owner’s inscription on title page. Otherwise VG ($6)
Collin, Matthew. Guerilla Radio: Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio and Serbia’s Underground Resistance. NY, Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2001. “Armed only with a stack of old punk records & a dream of freedom, one defiant Belgrade radio station waged a ten year war against Slobodan Milosevic’s dictatorship - and won.” TPB, 245 pp. VG ($8)
Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Draft]. NY, Crosscurrents Press, 1961. “Theoretical views of the C.P.S.U. on important internal & international questions.” TPB, 128 pp. G ($5)
Crankshaw, Edward. The Shadow of the Winter Palace: The Drift to Revolution 1825 - 1917. London, Macmillan, 1976. Insightful, comprehensive history with maps & 38 illustrations. HC/DJ, 429 pp. Small rubber stamp of previous owner on blank page. VG ($20)
Daniloff, Nicholas. Two Lives, One Russia. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Memoirs of an American journalist, an ethnic Russian, jailed in the USSR, whose ancestor was also a prisoner of the state. Parallel stories told in alternating chapters. With 16 pages of illustrations. HC/DJ, 307 pp. VG ($20)
De Polnay, Peter. My Road: An Autobiography. London, W.H. Allen, 1978. Memoir by the Hungarian-born British writer. HC/DJ, 249 pp. VG ($10)
Djilas, Milovan. The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System. NY, Praeger, 1957. Classic analysis by the partisan hero who defected from Communism. Second printing. HC/DJ, 214 pp. Small jacket tears. Otherwise VG ($10)
Djilas, Milovan. The Unperfect Society: Beyond the New Class. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. Reflections on communism, utopianism & Europe by the former Yugoslav Vice-President turned dissident. Translated from the Serbo-Croat by Dorian Cooke. With a biographical note on the author. HC/DJ, 267 pp. VG ($12)
Drukier, Manny. Duty and Passion. Toronto, Llugus, 2001. Novel linking Toronto of the early 90's & war-torn Eastern Europe of the 40's. TPB, 326 pp. VG ($10)
Dunham, Vera S. In Stalin’s Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Study of Soviet fiction written for a mass readership. TPB, 283 pp. Previous owner’s name on blank page. Some underlining. G ($8)
Eliasberg, Alexander (ed.) Bildergalerie zur Russischen Literatur. Munich, Orchis-Verlag, 1922. Black & white reproductions of paintings, drawings & photos of Russian authors from the 18th to 20th centuries, including seldom-pictured writers such as Zenaida Hippius (in drag) & Mikhail Kuzmin. Also autographs, handwriting & calligraphy, Pushkin sketches. Introduction by Thomas Mann (in Russian & German). HC, 143 pp. Some soiling to cover but VG ($22)
Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland to the Iron Gates. London, Penguin, 1987. An eighteen year old Englishman’s walk across Romania & Hungary, “between the woods of Transylvania & the waters of the Danube,” during the 1930's. TPB, 253 pp. VG ($6)
Ferro, Marc. The Russian Revolution of February 1917. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1972. “The best general history of the February revolution” - London Times Literary Supplement. Translated from the French by J.L. Richards. HC/DJ, 392 pp. VG ($20)
Fischer, John. Why They Behave Like Russians. NY, Harper & Bros., 1947. Study of the post-War Soviet Union. HC, 262 pp. VG ($8)
Florinsky, Michael T. Russia: A History and An Interpretation in Two Volumes. NY, Macmillan, 1968. Classic history of Russia to 1918. Thirteenth printing. HC, 2 vol.: 628 + xxiv pp. & 1511 + lxxvi pp. VG ($25)
Ford, R.A.D. The Solitary City: Poems & Translations. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1969. Poems, including translations from Yevtushenko, Yesenin, Akhmatova, etc. The author was Canadian ambassador to Moscow. HC/DJ, 94 pp. VG ($16)
Gabori, George. When Evils Were Most Free. Toronto, Seal, 1982. Hungarian writer’s memoir of Nazi & Communist concentration camps & the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Translated from the Hungarian by Eric Johnson & George Faludy. MMPB, 290 pp. VG ($3)
Gagnon, J. Maris. Death to Reach a Star. Seattle, Twin Omega Press, 1993. Epic historical saga about the homosexual love of two young Russian cousins, aristocrats & musicians. From the Diaghilev circle & the drawing rooms of old St. Petersburg through the revolution & Civil War. HC/DJ, 847 pp. ($40)
Ginzburg, Eugenia. Journey Into the Whirlwind. NY, Harvest/HBJ, 1975. “Witness & victim of Stalin’s reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the full story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons & labour camps.” “Stands side by side with Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoirs...” - Hannah Arendt. Translated from the Russian by Paul Stevenson & Max Hayward. TPB, 418 pp. Spine slightly bowed. Inside VG ($9)
Ginzburg, Eugenia. Within the Whirlwind. NY, Harvest/HBJ, 1982. Classic memoir of Stalinist Russia’s prisons & labour camps, the sequel to the acclaimed Journey Into the Whirlwind. “Possibly the single most vivid report on that epoch of terror” - Harrison E. Salisbury. “Rare, precious & inspiring.” Translated from the Russian by Ian Boland. Introduction by Heinrich Böll. TPB, 423 pp. VG ($9)
Gisevius, Hans B. To the Bitter End: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler, 1933 - 1944. NY, Da Capo Press, 1998. Of the three major memoirs in English translation by survivors of the attempted putsch of July 20, 1944, Gisevius provides the most thorough account. Invaluable as history, as exciting as a thriller, with "the inexorable march of a Greek tragedy"- Atlantic Monthly. Gisevius"spares no one, not even himself." His pen portraits of the leading figures involved - including the exhausted, worried, doggedly determined Count Claus von Stauffenberg - are vividly revealing Translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston. Foreword by Allen Dulles. Introduction by Peter Hoffman. TPB, 630 pp. Small, slight indentation on cover. Otherwise VG ($16)
Glenny, Michael and Norman Stone (eds.) The Other Russia: The Experience of Exile. NY, Viing, 1991. Anthology of Russian memoirs from exile, from witnessing a pogrom in Kiev to jumping from a Soviet ship in Philippine waters. HC/DJ, 474 pp. VG ($16)
Goff, Kenneth (ed.) Brainwashing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics. Englewood, CO, Kenneth Goff, n.d. Purporting to be a Communist handbook on brainwashing & the takeover of America, complete with an introductory speech by Beria, this is thought to be an early - and revealing - Dianetics/Scientology production. Many paranoid revelations. P, 64 pp. Some fading & slight staining to the cover but generally in quite good condition. ($25)
Gorbachev, Mikhail. Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World. NY, Harper & Row, 1987. Major historic document from the transitional period between the old USSR & post-communist Russia. HC/DJ, 254 pp. VG ($10)
Gotfryd, Bernard. Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust. NY, Washington Square Press, 1990. Extraordinary true tales of a young Polish boy before & during the German occupation. TPB, 175 pp. VG ($8)
Grigorenko, Petro G. Memoirs. NY, W.W. Norton, 1982. Memoirs of the Soviet general who became a leading dissident. With 8 pages of photos. Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. HC/DJ, 462 pp. VG ($14)
Grossman, Vasily. Life and Fate: A Novel. London, Collins Harvill, 1985. Major Russian epic novel with the battle of Stalingrad as the centrepiece. “The War and Peace of the 20th Century” was confiscated by the KGB. Even the used carbon paper & typewriter ribbons were removed. But a copy of the manuscript was smuggled to the West. Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler. HC/DJ, 880 pp. VG ($25)
Hanlon, Emily. Petersburg. NY, G.P. Putnam’s, 1988. Epic novel of turn-of-the century St. Petersburg. With end-paper maps. HC/DJ, 541 pp. VG ($15)
Hingley, Ronald. Pasternak: A Biography. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Full critical biography of the poet. With 17 illustrations. HC/DJ, 303 pp. VG ($15)
[Hitler Youth Movement.] Uns Geht Die Sonne Nicht Unter... Lieder der Hitler-Jugend.Weinmont, Grossdeutsche Buchhandlung, 1936. The Sun Will Not Set on Us.Official Hitler Youth songbook. Includes “Deutschlandlied,” “Horst Wessel Lied” & many others. German text. Improved, expanded edition. 4" x 5 3/4" P, 176 pp. Extraordinarily good condition. ($45)
Hough, Richard. The Potemkin Mutiny. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1996. “Hailed as an important contribution both to history and to sea literature...a dramatic blow-by-blow account of the June 1905 mutiny...immortalized in Eisenstein’s famous film.” TPB, 190 pp. VG ($10)
Ivinskaya, Olga. A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak. NY, Doubleday, 1978. Searing memoirs by Pasternak's companion, the inspiration for Lara in Doctor Zhivago. Includes a chilling scene in the Lubianka morgue. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward. With 32 illustrations from the author's collection. HC/DJ, 462 pp. VG ($21)
Jenkins, Roy. Churchill: A Biography. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. Large, excellent one volume biography emphasizing Churchill’s parliamentary activities. By a former cabinet minister & President of the European Commission. With 92 illustrations. HC/DJ, 1992 pp. VG ($32)
Jetzinger, Franz. Hitler’s Youth. London, Hutchinson, 1958. Study of Hitler’s early life, including speculation about possible Jewish ancestors. With five pages of illustrations. First edition. Introduction by Alan Bullock. HC/DJ, 200 pp. A few small bits missing from jacket. Otherwise VG ($11)
John, Otto. Twice Through the Lines: The Autobiography of Otto John. NY, Harper & Row, 1972. Gripping memoirs by one of the few key survivors of the July 20 plot against Hitler. John became the head of West German intelligence, served time in jail as a defector after returning from East German abduction. Translated from the German by Richard Berry. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper. B&w photos. HC/DJ, 340 pp. VG ($10)
Johnson, J.E. "Johnnie". Full Circle: The Story of Air Fighting. London, Chatto & Windus, 1964. By an Air Vice-Marshall & top WWII fighter pilot. Full page colour plates & other illustrations by David Shepherd. HC/DJ, 290 pp. Previous owner's inscription on fly-leaf. Small tears on dust jacket. ($10)
Kabakov, Ilya. Ten Characters. NY, ICA, 1989. Text, twelve colour plates, drawings & black & white photos by the Russian avant-garde artist. Published to accompany the artist’s London exhibition “The Untalented Artist & Other Characters.” With a bibliography & list of selected exhibitions. Large format TPB, 72 pp. VG ($20)
Kaiser, Robert G. Why Gorbachev Failed: His Triumphs, His Failure, and His Fall. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1992. Thoughtful study of the rise & fall of Gorbachev. “Expanded & updated” edition. TPB, 522 pp. VG ($7)
Kahn, David. Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. N.p., Da Capo Press, 2000. Illustrated study first published in 1978. TPB, 671 pp. VG ($10)
Keating, Bern. The Mosquito Fleet. NY, Scholastic Book Services, 1971. History of PT boats with maps & back cover photos. Fifth printing. Small MMPB, 251 pp. Previous owner’s signature inside cover. VG ($5)
Kharitonov, Yevgeny. Under House Arrest. London, Serpent’s Tail, 1998. A “collection of autobiographical fictions” by the homosexual Russian dissident poet who died suddenly in 1981. His writings circulated in samizdat editions. This is the first of his works to appear in English. Translated from the Russian by Arch Tait. TPB, 208 pp. VG ($12)
Kirschbaum, Stanislav J. A History of Slovakia: The Struggle
for Survival. NY, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1996. History of the Slovak
nation from its arrival on the Danubian Plain to the present. TPB, 350 pp. VG
($11)
Klebnikov, Paul. Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. NY, Harcourt, 2000. “How post-communist Russia became one of the most corrupt countries in the world.” First edition. With 8 pages of photos. HC/DJ, 400 pp. ($11)
Klein-Haparash, J. He Who Flees the Lion. NY, Atheneum, 1963. Epic novel set in Romania, Poland & Austria before World War II. “An absorbing story that unfolds like a thriller.” The Romanian-born author, an underground activist, was imprisoned by the Soviets & the Germans. Translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston. HC/DJ, 651 pp. VG ($23)
Kline, Troy and Joe Bice.Chippendales: The Naked Truth. Mercer Island, WA, Pacifica Press, 1998. The inside story of the famous male stripping troupe by a former member. TPB, 290 pp. F ($10)
Koestler, Mamaine. Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler’s Letters 1945 - 1951. NY, St. Martin’s Press, 1985. Revealing letters from the novelist’s second wife to her twin sister. Edited by Celia Goodman, with 8 pages of photos. HC/DJ, 204 pp. VG ($20)
Konrád, George. A Feast in the Garden. NY, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Novel of an “enchanted childhood” in Budapest that ends with deportation of the Jews of Hungary to concentration camps & continues with the Soviet occupation. “A major work by Hungary’s most distinguished writer.” Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. HC/DJ, 394 pp. VG ($20)
Kopczewski, Jan Stanislaw. Casimir Pulaski.Poland, Interpress, 1980. A Polish biography of the American Revolutionary War general. With 12 pages of b&w illustrations. TPB, 172 pp. Some pages creased. ($15)
Kosinski, Jerzy. Passion Play. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1979. Passion & polo in the Kosinski manner. HC/DJ, 271 pp. G+ ($7)
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Hermit of 69th Street: The Working Papers of Norbert Kosky. NY, Henry Holt, 1988. Kosinski's most autobiographical, and perhaps most challenging, novel. First edition. HC/DJ, 531 pp. VG ($20)
Kropotkin, Peter. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. NY, New York, University Press, 1972. Anarchist classic, edited, with an Introduction by Paul Avrich. HC, 277 pp. Previous owner's neatly written on end-paper. Otherwise VG ($10)
Kropotkin, Peter. The Conquest of Bread. NY, New York University Press, 1972. Anarchist classic, edited with an Introduction by Paul Avrich. HC, 235 pp. Small piece neatly cut from front end-paper. Otherwise VG ($10)
Kruuse, Jens. Madness at Oradour: 10 June 1944...& After. London, Secker & Warburg, 1969. The notorious German massacre of French civilians. Translated from the Danish by Carl Malmberg. HC/DJ, 179 pp. VG ($8)
Kuusinen, Aino. The Rings of Destiny: Inside Soviet Russia from Lenin to Brezhnev. NY, William Morrow, 1974. Memoirs of the widow of Comintern head Otto Kuusinen. Includes recollections of master spy Richard Sorge, of her life as a member of the Soviet ruling elite & her fifteen years in Russian prisons & labour camps. Foreword by Wolfgang Leonhard. Preface by John H. Hodgson. Translated from the German by Paul Stevenson. HC/DJ, 256 pp. VG ($15)
Kwinta, Chava. I’m Still Living. Toronto, Simon & Pierre, 1974. Memoir of a holocaust survivor from Sosnowiec, Poland, imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen. “Perhaps the most poignant & compelling story of the holocaust since The Diary of Anne Frank” - William French TPB, 278 pp. VG ($12)
Leasor, James. Secret story behind the Dieppe landings. Green Beach. NY, Drum Books, 1986. TPB, 245 pp. VG ($10)
LeBor, Adam. Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust.Secaucus, NJ, Carol Publishing, 1997. HC/DJ, 261 pp. F ($10)
Limonov, Edward. It’s Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir. NY, Random House, 1983. Lively, controversial novel about a bisexual Russian hipster in New York & his adventures with black men & others. First edition. Translated from the Russian by S.L. Campbell. HC/DJ, 226 pp. VG ($15)
Littell, Robert (ed.) The Czech Black Book. NY, Praeger, 1969. Vivid story of the 1968 Czechoslovak revolt as chronicled by that country's Institute of History. Originally circulated clandestinely. HC/DJ, 303 pp. Library discard with the usual stamps, pocket, mylar jacket. ($10)
Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies Centre for Peace in the Balkans (ed.) Kosovo Under NATO: Anatomy of an Unjust War - A Collection of Essays and Articles Including Papers Presented at the International Conference “Degrading Serbia,” Held in Toronto in October 1999. Anthology generally critical of Western policies in the Balkans. TPB, 95 pp. VG ($10)
Losten, Bishop Basil H. and Father Taras Lozynsky (eds.) Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. Strabourg, Editions du Signe, 1988. Colour-illustrated history of Christianity in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Church in America & the Byzantine-Catholic Church in Canada, partly in comic form. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4" P, 49 pp. VG($5)
Luchkovich, Michael (ed.) Their Land: An Anthology of Ukrainian Short Stories. Jersey City, Svoboda Press, 1964. Excellent selection of stories from the 1830's to the 1940's by Ukrainian writers, many reprinted from emigrant Ukrainian newspapers & periodicals. Preface by Clarence A. Manning, Introduction by Luke Luciw, Biographical sketches by Bohdan Krawciw. English text, various translators. HC/DJ, 325 pp. VG ($20)
Luxemburg, Rosa. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks. NY, Pathfinder Press, 1970. Bulky compendium of the fiery Polish-born communist’s writings & speeches. With a good glossary of names & terms. Edited, with a 31-page Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters. Appendices by Lenin & Trotsky. Second Printing. TPB, 473 pp. VG ($14)
Lvov, Arkady. The Courtyard. NY, Doubleday, 1989. Novel about families sharing a common courtyard in Odessa between 1936 & 1956, by a dissident writer. Smuggled out of the U.S.S.R. via microfilm hidden in a shoe-shine kit. First English language edition. Translated by Richard Lourie. HC/DJ, 682 pp. VG ($25)
Makine, Andrei. Dreams of My Russian Summers. NY, Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1997. Siberian author’s novel of a boy’s ascent to manhood in the USSR of the 1960's and ‘70's. “Powerful...magical...mesmerizing.” Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. TPB, 241 pp. Slight crimp in cover & a few pages. Otherwise VG ($8)
Martz, Fraidie. Open Your Hearts: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada. Montreal, Véhicule Press, 1996. Illustrated account of the settlement of European Jewish orphans in Canada. TPB, 189 pp. VG ($10)
Massie, Suzanne. Land of the Firebird: The
Beauty of Old Russia. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1980. Wide-ranging historic
& cultural survey of Russia since the 10th Century. Large format
with many big coloured illustrations of paintings, architecture, ballet sets,
costumes, jewellery, etc. HC/DJ, 493 pp. Previous owner's inscription on
half-title. Otherwise VG ($20)
Maximov, Vladimir. The Seven Days of Creation. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. Important novel by a Soviet dissident, encompassing much of 20th Century Russian history. HC/DJ, 415 pp. VG ($20)
Medvedev, Roy A. and Zhores A. Medvedev. Khrushchev: The Years in Power. NY, W.W. Norton, 1978. Insightful study of the Khrushchev era by the well-known dissidents, including information about a failed coup. Concentrates on economic & agricultural policies. With eight pages of photos. TPB, 198 pp. G ($5)
Mee, Charles L., Jr. Meeting at Potsdam. NY, M. Evans & Co., 1975. The postwar meeting of the Big Three that signalled the beginning of the Cold War. With 16 pages of b&w photos plus a companion 8-page booklet of color maps. HC/DJ, 30 pp. VG ($12)
Meshcherskaya, Ekaterina. A Russian Princess Remembers: The Journey from Tsars to Glasnost. NY, Doubleday, 1989. Russian princess’s memoirs of pre-revolutionary times and her life and amazing survival through the communist regime. With 16 pages of illustrations. First edition. HC/DJ, 229 pp. VG ($12)
Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brisac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington, DC, Counterpoint, 1999. Vivid history of the struggle for Central Asia from the 19th Century to the present. With 16 pages of photos & 8 maps. TPB, 646 pp. VG ($18)
Mitchell, Donald A. A History of Russian and Soviet Sea Power. NY, Macmillan, 1974. Big, comprehensive history of the Russian fleet with over 80 illustrations including maps. First edition. HC/DJ, 657 pp. Library discard in unusually good condition. ($20)
Michener, James A. The Bridge at Andau. NY, Random House, 1957. Eye-witness narrative of the Hungarian revolution of 1956. With a map & eight pages of photographs. HC/DJ, 273 pp. VG ($10)
Moroz, Valentyn. Report from the Beria Reserve: The Protest Writings of Valentyn Moroz. Toronto, Peter Martin Associates, 1974. Writings by “a modern hero of the Ukrainian resistance” - Judy LaMarsh. Includes a Foreword, map, biographical outline & notes. Edited & translated from the Ukrainian by John Kolasky. TPB, 162 pp. VG ($10)
Moskiewiez, Helene. Inside the Gestapo: A Young Woman's Secret War. London, Sphere, 1988. A Resistance spy typing death lists for the Gestapo TPB, 189 pp. G ($5)
Muravin, Victor. The Diary of Vikenty Angarov. Scarborough, ON, Prentice-Hall, 1978. A Russian sea-captain returns from his travels to be caught up in Stalin’s purges. Powerful novel of the Gulag, including a description of the prison ships. Illustrated by Ernst Neizvestny. Translated from the Russian by Alan Thomas. First English language edition. HC/DJ, 349 pp. Some damage to back of jacket. Otherwise VG ($20)
Nilin, Pavel. Comrade Venka. London, Hutchinson, 1959. Police adventure story set in Siberia, originally entitled Cruelty. Translated from the Russian by John Barnes. HC, 304 pp.
VG ($8)
Nudel, Ida. A Hand in the Darkness: The Autobiography of a Refusenik. NY, Warner, 1990. Memoirs of a Soviet Jew who endured beatings, assassination attempts & a men’s prison in Siberia because of her campaign to allow Jewish emigration. Translated from the Russian by Stefani Hoffman. With eight pages of b&w photos. HC/DJ, 314 pp. VG ($20)
Obruchev, Vladimir. Sannikov Land. Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955. Search for a lost 1902 expedition into remote parts of Siberia uncovers lost tribes, shamans, sacred lakes, mammoths & wooly rhinos. With drawings by Y. Krasny. HC, 372 pp. VG ($15)
Olesha, Yuri. Envy and Other Works. NY, W.W. Norton, 1981. Fiction & drama from the 1920's & ‘30's by a leading Russian writer whose work was first accepted, then suppressed, by the communists. Translated, with an Introduction, by Andrew R. MacAndrew. TPB, 288 pp. VG ($10)
Paustovsky, Konstantin. Selected Stories. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1970. Stories by the popular, sometimes outspoken novelist & memoirist. Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook & others. Introduction by the author. First edition. The quality of Soviet books varied greatly: this is one of the more distinguished products, a beautiful little book designed by A. Golyakovkaya with striking b&w lino cuts of rural scenes. With attached white silk bookmark. HC/DJ, 445 pp. VG ($22)
Pearson, Michael. Lenin’s Mistress: The Life of Inessa Armand. NY, Random House, 2001. With 16 pages of illustrations. HC/DJ, 278 pp. VG ($10)
Peniakoff, Vladimir. Popski’s Private Army. London, The Reprint Society, 1953. War memoirs of the notorious irregular (of Russian parentage) who fought for the Allies on the North African front in World War II. With photos, maps & an Appreciation by Brigadier J.W. Hackett. HC, 438 pp. ($10)
Petrovskaya, Kyra. Kyra. NY, Signet, 1961. Autobiography of a Russian actress who became a soldier & nurse in World War II & eventually defected to America. With unusual material on Soviet theatrical & army life, Stalin’s son, etc. With four pages of photos. Classic pulp cover. MMPB, 319 pp. VG ($10)
Petrow, Lu-Ki Yvan (pseud. of Luben Petrov). The Two Crosses: A Novel. Munich, S.a.m.d.t., 1975. Epic novel of a Bulgarian family, concentrating on the coming to power of the communists. TPB, 345 pp. VG ($21)
Piekarski, Kon. Escaping Hell: The Story of a Polish Underground Officer in Auschwits and Buchenwald. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1989. Illustrated memoir by an officer in the Polish Underground Army including information on escapes & a secret radio network. Author became a professor at Canada’s University of Waterloo. TPB, 254 pp. VG ($12)
Pipes, Richard. Russia Under the Old Regime. NY, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. Thorough analysis of the growth of the Russian state from the ninth century to the 1880's. With 52 illustrations. HC/DJ, 361 pp. VG ($16)
Plievier, Theodor. Moscow. NY, Ace, 1953. “One of the greatest war novels ever written.” Translated from the Russian by Stuart Hood. Classic wraparound paperback cover shows battle scene. MMPB, 320 pp. VG ($10)
Pliever, Thoedor. Stalingrad. NY, Time Inc., 1966. Vivid novel of the great battle by a German writer who lived in Russia until 1947. Translated from the German by Richard & Clara Winston. Introduction by Charles W. Thayer. TPB, 418 pp. Small piece cut from half-title. Otherwise VG ($15)
Porter, Bernard. The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism 1850 - 1970. London, Longman, 1980. TPB, 408 pp. VG ($10)
Potapova, Nina. Russian Elementary Course Book I. Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. First of two books in English & Russian. Second edition, revised. HC, 360 pp. VG ($10)
Prokich, Alex. Tunnel Toronto Moscow: A Cold-War Adventure Based on Actual Experience. Beamsvuille, ON, privately printed, 1991. Novel by a Serb who fought in the Romanian army in World War II, deserted to the Red Army, escaped to Canada & smuggled dissidents into the West. TPB, 247 pp. VG INSCRIBED ($12)
Rand, Ayn. Russian Writings on Hollywood. N.p., Ayn Rand Institute Press, 1999. Early writing on the movies by the Russian-born writer, first published years before We the Living. Illustrations include a facsimile of the original Russian pamphlet. Edited, with an Introduction by Michael S. Berliner. TPB, 221 pp. VG ($10)
Ratushinskaya, Irina. Fictions and Lies: A Novel. London, John Murray, 1999. Novel set in the literary world of Soviet Russia. Translated from the Russian by Alyona Kojevnikova. HC/DJ, 277 pp. VG ($12)
Rybakov, Anatoli. Fear. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1992. Stunning epic novel about the Stalin purges & the personality of the dictator, by the author of Children of the Arbat. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. HC/DJ, 585 pp. VG ($20)
Scammell, Michael. Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. London, Hutchinson, 1984. Large, detailed biography of the author of The Gulag Archipelago. With 16 pages of b&w photos. HC/DJ, 1051 pp. VG ($25)
Schulman, Faye. A Partisan’s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust. Toronto, Second Story Press, 1995. Illustrated memoir by a photographer who became a partisan on the Polish-Belorussian border during WW II. Includes rare photos of partisans. TPB, 224 pp. VG ($10)
Secrets and Stories of the War. London, Reader's Digest Association, 1963. Sixty-six thrilling, true stories of World War II. Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Nicely bound in black, red & gold. HC, 2 Vol., 720 pp. ($12)
Serge, Victor. From Lenin to Stalin. NY, Monad Press, 1973. A reprint of the 1937 book of essays by the novelist, one of the fiercest left-wing critics of Stalinism. Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim. TPB, 160 pp. G ($10)
Shaw, Warren and David Pryce. World Almanac of the Soviet Union from 1905 to the Present. NY, Pharos Books, 1990. Encyclopaedic guide to the USSR, organized by Topics, Biographies, Chronology, Gazeteer, etc. With maps. HC/DJ, 360 pp. Small repair to jacket. Otherwise VG ($10)
Sholokhov, Mikhail. Stories. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1979. Sholokhov's first book. Translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish & Yelena Altshuler. Second edition. MMPB, 166 pp. VG ($10)
Shulman, Milton. Marilyn, Hitler and Me: The Memoirs of Milton Shulman. London, André Deutsch, 1998. The Canadian-born broadcaster reminisces & offers some surprising information about the fate of Martin Borman. HC/DJ, 386 pp. F ($10)
Simonov, Konstantin. The
Living and the Dead. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1975. A war novel about
"the most difficult & tragic year of Russian history - 1941" by one of the
most popular Soviet writers. Translated from the Russian by Alex Miller. HC/DJ,
542 pp. VG ($25)
Skvorecky, Josef. The Engineer of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death. Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1984. Classic novel of a political dissident in exile recollecting his life in Czechoslovakia under the Nazis & Communists. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. HC/DJ, 571 pp. VG ($15)
Skrjabina, Elena. Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. Searing diary by a survivor of the harrowing World War II siege & a dangerous evacuation under shell-fire over the ice of Lake Ladoga. Translated from the Russian, with an Afterword, by Norman Luxenburg. Foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury. HC/DJ, 174 pp. Library discard with large corner of free end-paper clipped. ($20)
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. August 1914. London, The Bodley Head, 1971. First volume in a series of linked historical novels, described by the author as “the chief artistic design of my life.” Employs “the techniques of nonfiction inside a fictional framework.” Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny. HC/DJ, 645 pp. Some tears to jacket. Otherwise VG ($10)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. The First Circle. NY, Harper & Row, 1968. First edition of the great novel of post-war Russia. Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. HC/DJ, 580 pp. Jacket slightly crinkled but otherwise VG. ($18)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union. NY, Harper Colophon, 1981. The Nobel Prize winner’s acerbic account of his determined struggle with the state literary establishment. Compelling reading - amusing, horrible, inspiring. Translated from the Russian by Harry Willetts. TPB, 568 pp. VG ($10)
Sommer, Mark. Living in Freedom: The New Prague. SF, Mercury House, 1994. A portrait of post-communist Prague. “Incomparable blend of current history, personal journey, political essay & provocative interviews.” With map & eight pages of photos. TPB, 261 pp. VG ($10)
Spunt, Georges. A Place in Time. NY, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968. Autobiography about a Russian-Jewish family living in Shanghai between the two world wars. First edition, with end-paper maps. HC/DJ, 378 pp. VG ($20)
Stafford, David. Camp X: Canada's School for Secret Agents 1941 - 1945. Toronto, Lester & Orpyn Dennis, 1986. First edition. With 8 pages of b&w photos. HC/DJ, 327 pp. F ($12)
Suchkov, Boris. A History of Realism. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1973. Soviet era look at literary realism from Shakespeare, Cervantes & Rabelais to Tolstoy, Proust, Shaw, Mann, Sartre, Boll & 20th century Soviet writers. HC/DJ, 381 pp. VG ($20)
Summers, Anthony and Tom Mangold. The File on the Tsar. London, Victor Gollancz, 1976. Speculation on the fate of the Romanovs, information on the callous roles played by Kaiser Wilhelm & George V, the question of Anastasia, etc. With 68 illustrations. HC/DJ, 416 pp. Previous owner’s small, discreet rubber stamp on inside page. VG ($15)
Sutherland, Christine. The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles. NY, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1984. Romantic true story of a heroic woman’s rebellion & exile in early 19th Century Russia. First edition. With 16 pages of b&w illustrations. HC/DJ, 340 pp. VG ($18)
Symons, Julian. The Thirties and the Nineties. Manchester, Carcnet, 1990. Evocation of the social, political & literary life of the 1930's, from the Daily Worker to Fascist Action. With a section comparing the era with the 1990's - Warhol, deconstructionism, etc. HC/DJ, 184 pp. VG ($20)
Thomas, D.M. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life. NY, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. Life of the great author by the Cornish novelist & translator of Pushkin & Akhmatova. With 16 pages of b&w photos. HC/DJ, 583 pp. VG ($25)
Tolstoy, Nikolai. The Minister and the Massacres. London, Century Hutchinson, 1986. Exposé of the British government’s forced deportation (between 1944 & 1947) of over two million Russians & Yugoslavs to communist governments to be imprisoned & killed. By a British descendant of the great novelist. With 8 pages of photographs. HC/DJ, 442 pp. VG ($20)
Topolski, Aleksander. Without Vodka. Toronto, McArthur, 2000. The author was sixteen when called up for the Polish army in 1939, eight days before the German invasion. He survived Russian prison camps & later served in the Polish 2nd Corps in the Mediterranean theatre. A searing story told with compassion & wit. With drawings by the author & 16 pages of b&w photos. TPB, 386 pp. VG ($15)
Trotsky, Leon. My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography. NY, Pathfinder Press, 1987. Originally published in 1930. Introduction by Joseph Hansen. TPB, 602 pp. VG ($10)
Trumbo, Dalton. Night of the Aurochs. NY, Viking, 1979. Novel about a Nazi who becomes a commandant at Auschwitz. “One of the most fascinating revelations of a writer’s mind ever published” - Ring Lardner, Jr. An unfinished masterpiece by one of the Hollywood Ten, the author of Johnny Got His Gun. Edited, with an Introduction by Robert Kirsch. Foreword by Cleo Trumbo. HC/DJ, 218 pp. VG ($12)
Tuller, David. Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay & Lesbian Russia. Boston, Faber, 1996. Gay activist’s report on several extended visits to Russia. HC/DJ, 313 pp. VG ($20)
[Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council]. The Shame of the Twentieth Century: Bolshevist Methods of Combatting the Ukrainian National Liberation Movement. A Documentary Report. London, Ukrainian Publishers, 1962. Ukrainian exile organization’s indictment of Soviet Russian occupation methods, focusing on the years 1941 - 1950. Striking black, white & red cover showing burning village. Large TPB, 79 pp. Corner crease & slight soiling to cover. Inside clean. ($12)
Ulam, Adam. The Kirov Affair. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanonich, 1988. This novel by Stalin's biographer, set in the 1980's, explores the circumstances of Kirov's assassination. HC/DJ, 404 pp. VG ($10)
Ustinov, Peter. My Russia. London, Macmillan, 1983. Large format, lavishly illustrated personal study of Russian history by the writer & actor. HC/DJ, 224 pp. VG Already sold. Sorry!
Viirlaid, Arved. Graves Without Crosses. Toronto, Clarke Irwin & Company, 1972. Novel about Estonian anti-communist partisans. Translated from the Estonian by Ilse Lehiste. Preface by Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker. HC/DJ, 428 pp. Minor damage to jacket. Otherwise VG ($30)
Volkov, Solomon. Conversations with Joseph Brodsky: A Poet’s Journey Through the Twentieth Century. NY, The Free Press, 1998. Illustrated series of interviews. Subjects include Brodsky’s arrest, trial & exile, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Frost, Auden, Russian translations of Cavafy, life in New York, etc. HC/DJ, 306 pp. VG ($15)
Von Laue, Theodore H. and Angela Von Laue. Faces of a Nation - The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917 - 1991: Photographs by Dmitri Baltermants. Golden, CO, Fulcrum Publishing, 1996. Large format history of the U.S.S.R. with many b&w photos, most by leading Soviet photographer Baltermants. Introduction by Tatiana Baltermants. Cover shows large official seal of the U.S.S.R. in irridescent crimson. HC/DJ, 262 pp. F ($16)
Waite, Robert G.L. The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler. NY, Basic Books, 1977. Classic psychobiography. Twelve b&w pics, one colour. HC/DJ, 56 pp. VG ($20)
Wilson, Derek. Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power. London, Mandarin, 1990. The family that bought the Suez Canal & financed the battle of Waterloo. From the ghetto of 18th Century Frankfurt to the present. With 24 illustrations & a family tree. TPB, 490 pp. VG ($11)
Woolf, S.J. (ed.) The Nature of Fascism. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968. Fourteen essays including "Fascism & the Intellectuals" by George L. Mosse. HC/DJ, 261 pp. VG ($12)
Yanow, Leonard and My. Lazar: The Autobiography of My Father. NY, Viking, 1980. Life of Lazar Unovitch, born 1903, in the Jewish Pale which was invaded by four armies. An account of the pleasures & horrors of growing up in Eastern Europe - written by Yanow and his writer son. HC/DJ, 212 pp. VG ($12)
Yeremeyev, Leonid. USSR in World War Two Through the Eyes of Friends and Foes. Moscow, Novosti Press Agency, 1985. With 32 pages of photos. MMPB, 112 pp. (and) Kraminov, Danil. The Spring of 1945: Notes by a Soviet War Correspondent. Moscow, Novosti Press Agency, 1985. MMPB, 120 pp. Two books on World War II from the Soviet perspective, offered as a pair. ($5)
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. Divided Twins: Alaska and Siberia. NY, Viking Penguin, 1988. Large, coffee-table book. Extensive text (including poems) by Yevtushenko & many beautiful colour photos by Yevtushenko & Boyd Norton. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. HC/DJ, 224 pp. VG ($25)
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. Poems Chosen by the Author. NY, Hill & Wang, 1967. Bilingual edition of poems translated from the Russian by Peter Levi & Robin Milner-Gulland. Includes poems on Verlaine, Maupassant & Blok. Fred Stein photo portrait on jacket cover. HC/DJ, 96 pp. ($15)
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. A Precocious Autobiography. London, Collins & Harvill, 1963. Memoir by the controversial poet. Jacket & frontispiece photos of a reading at the Cambridge Union. Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew. HC/DJ, 127 pp. Superficial damage to jacket including white spot where old price label has been removed. Otherwise VG ($10)
Zabolotsky, Nikolai. Scrolls. London, Jonathan Cape, 1971. Work by the major Russian poet who spent eight years in camps & exile. Translated from the Russian by Daniel Weissbort. Small TPB/DJ, 95 pp. Some staining to jacket. VG ($10)
Zavalishin, Vyacheslav. Early Soviet Writers. NY, Praeger, 1958. Study of major & minor writers & groups from the Symbolists & Acmeists into the 1930's. Published for the Research Program on the USSR (East European Fund). HC/DJ, 394 pp. Previous owner’s inscription on blank page. Otherwise VG ($20)
Zinc, Lubor. The Uprooted. Toronto, Longmans, 1962. Novel about two brothers who survive the German occupation of their Eastern European country to confront danger in an occupied continent. The author fought with exile Czech forces in World War II, returned to his country, fled from the communists in 1948, & eventually became a journalist in Canada. First edition. HC/DJ, 343 pp. Some wear to jacket. Otherwise VG ($25)
Zinoviev, Alexander. The Yawning Heights. Toronto, The Bodley Head, 1979. Brilliant satirical study of a closed society by a Russian philosopher who spent time in a psychiatric clinic for having criticized the Stalin “cult of personality.” Translated from the Russian by Gordon Clough. HC/DJ, 829 pp. Slight wear but still VG ($21)