Couriss (8 results)

relié. Condition: Très bon. Visuel de couverture différent.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition. Mission investigating conditions in Russian Central Asia before the First World War. ppXV(3)241(1) with portrait frontispiece, and index; endpaper maps. Patterned paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, backstrip titled in gilt. Top edge of text-block speckled and lightly toned. VERY GOOD copy in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket toned at backstrip panel.

Condition: As New. Comme neuf etat remarquable. 10x18x2cm. 1983. Poche. 272 pages. le prix comprends l'expédition en suivi France Intégrité des textes ni surlignés ni commentaires en marges Livre d'occasion. As New.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first translated edition of the memoirs of Count K. K. Pahlen written during his time spent in exile. First translated edition. With a portrait frontispiece and map endpapers. Written during his time in exile after the Revolution, the memoirs of Count K. K. Pahlen explore the journeys undertaken for the Commission of Enquiry in Russian Turkestan and his experiences in the Baltic provinces. Edited by Richard Austin Pierce, an American historian and publisher who specialized in the Russian era of Alaska's history. Translated by N. J. Couriss, an American translator of French and Russian works. In the original quarter black cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Sunning to the spine and extremities with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.

xvii + 241pp.with frontispice (portrait of count Pahlen), 23cm., cart.cover (spine in cloth), dustwrapper, some foxing on upper edges and dustwrapper, else VG, G69082.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. black cloth spine, illustrated papered boards, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 241 pp covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Goulevitch, A. Czarism and Revolution. Omni, 1962, 272pp. Schiff, Kuhn Loeb financing Bolshevik revolution etc. VG in D/W.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A smart scarce copy of this translated edition of Goulevitch's insightful work on Czarism and the Russian Revolution. Scarce work. An insightful work on the Czarism system of government and revolution in Russia, with chapters on the impact on agriculture, industry, trade, transport, finance, and the international role of the country. Written by Arsene de Goulevitch, more familiarly known by his pen name Francois de Romainville, a member of the Russian Air Force and writer. Translated by N. J. Couriss. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with a 4" closed tear to the head of the front joint and a 1" closed tear to the rear, as well as a 7" closed tear across the front panel. Light shelf wear to the extremities, the odd mark, and the odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine. book.