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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Mixed format - Vol I & II HB; Vols II - SB. Few civilisations have commanded as much fascination — and as...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA stunning work of visual history, The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs presents a sweeping panorama of Imperial Russia...

Condition remarks: **RUSSIAN TEXT ONLY**Condition: Fair. Jacket: N/A. Pages: Yellowed with signs of aging; minor insect damage on rear endpaper. Markings: unmkd. Binding: worn edges, bumped corners; yellowed spine; internally...

Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Robert Wainwright Format: Paperback...

An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal Dimitrios English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul...

The author destroys the myth of benevolent "Grandfather Lenin", showing how political violence and diplomatic double-dealing were part and parcel of the Soviet system from its outset in 1917. The...

The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. For her and millions...

Goncharov's powerful - and frequently very funny - novelistic denunciation of Russian serfdom. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the barbed wire of Stalin's brutal labour camp system, one man refused to surrender his mind — and what he wrote there changed...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Good, pages appear clean and white. Markings: No markings visible. Binding condition: Appears intact and sound. No stickers or labels visible. A...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's...

In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none Binding condition: Good — pages intact, binding secure. Few documents in the history of...

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer Dimitri Shostakovich drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Using much material never previously published in...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: VG. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover with dust jacket present. A richly detailed biography, Dimitri Stancioff:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark in the English-speaking world's encounter with Russian literature, The Penguin Book of Russian Verse presents a...

At the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his work as director of the Manhattan Project, he was awarded the Medal...