Pahlen Count (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1964. No Edition Remarks. 241 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth and paper covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in red and black patterned cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has one small closed tear to the top edge of spine.Not price clipped.This copy has one library neat bookplate to the front pastedown and one 2cm in diameter circular stamp to the copyright page and one small ref library plate to the rear endpaper.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness.Clean copy internally.The wrapper comes protected in a cover sleeve,8vo 241pp First Edition 1st Impression [1964].

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Mild spotting top edge of volume, straight and tight and in an edgeworn dustjacket with small chipping at points, now in protective mylar. Map endpapers. First English translation of Count Pahlen's memoirs. ; MCN30439; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pp.

23x14. Encuadernación editorial. (tapa dura). 241 pgs. 670199.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. in English. frontis (portrait), index, xv, 241p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 22cm. Light stain around edges of frontis and title-leaf. Text leaves slightly rippled. Pahlen headed a Russian commission sent to investigate conditions in Russian Central Asia.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xviii, 241. Original publishers black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Portrait frontispiece. Fine in fine dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

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.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [3], 241, [1]; map endpapers, frontispiece portrait, fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. "The vast area of land that lies to the east of the Caspian Sea and stretches to the borders of China; that lies north of Persia and Afghanistan and reaches the edge of Siberia; an area containing deserts, high mountains, and great lakes - the land of Tamerlane - was brought under Russian rule in the second half of the nineteenth century and became known as Russian Turkestan. Rich and remote, it became a place of golden opportunity for venal officials as well as a favorite place for settlers, and the corruption and inefficiency of the administration became so notorious that a Commission of Enquiry, with full powers, was sent to investigate conditions in 1908. At the head of the Commission was a nobleman from the Baltic provinces, Count Pahlen. His report ran into nineteen volumes - dry reading but a mine of information concerning Central Asia before the First World War. In exile after the Revolution, Count Pahlen wrote his memoirs of the journeys undertaken for the Commission and his experiences in the country, memoirs which are now published in an English translation for the first time" (jacket blurb).

Hardback. Being the memoirs of Count K.K. Pahlen 1908-1909. Ed. & intro: R.A. Pierce. 256pp Oxford University Press 1964. *The author was the head of the Commission of Inquiry sent to Turkestan in 1908. Very good.