Vostok (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 239 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. Russian text ; summary in English. Book of essays compiled after the International conference, which took place in Moscow on February 1-3, 2010. The conference summarized 100 years study of Japanese Art in Russia. The contents of the book are organized in two parts. The first part represents articles about theory, history and methodology of Japanese art. The second part represents publications of the Japanese art collections from Russian museums and private collections.

État de NEUF / New condition 000-209276 '9782350174594 06/07/2020 Hors-collection Broché.

Half cloth hardcover. xvi,330,(6) pp., some ills, map/ plan.; 26.5x18 cm. Text in Russian. (small signs of use, paper bit browned) Very good, see picture. The 22nd issue of Novyi Vostok, also titled Nouvel Orient, a journal published by the Scientific Association of Oriental Studies in the Soviet Union. It contains scholarly articles on oriental studies, political events in Asia and the Arab world, and internal issues like the role of the national bourgeoisie. The journal was published between 1922 and 1930 and played a significant role in the development of Soviet oriental studies. 680g.

photographic portrait frontispiece, several photographic illustrations, first three chapters with numerous pencil annotations, pp. 228, 8vo, pale green boards, cover lettered in silver, with ascending red star motif, spine lettered in silver and red, dustjacket, clipped, worn at folds, frayed at edges, with short tears at upper edge of front and back covers, very good. The author's own copy, with his lengthy annotations and text corrections in pencil in the margins of 21 pages of the first three chapters. [With]: [in Russian] Cosmos: Road Without End. Moscow, 1974, photographic portrait frontispiece, numerous photographic plates, pp. 266, (vi), 8vo, dark blue boards, cover lettered in silver with ascending rocket motif, spangled star endpapers, very good Both books are signed by Nikolaev on the title-pages [in Russian] 'With Best Wishes, 15.9.97' and include an autograph signed note by the author, briefly reporting the book's contents, mounted on the final endpaper of each volume. The first book describes the training, flight and aftermath of the Vostok 3 mission of 1962, in which Nikolaev circled the earth 64 times in 96 hours and appeared on the first television broadcast from space. Besides the traditional images of free fall training and portraits in various types of space suit, Nikolaev is also pictured on a pedalo and with his wife, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, on their wedding day. The second was written after the 1970 Soyuz 9 mission in which, though he was suffering from a pike bite from a fishing expedition two days before lift-off, Nikolaev set a new endurance record, 18 days in space. Known by Gargarin as 'the most unflappable man in a crisis I know' and by Titov as 'a man of iron endurance and courageous determination', Nikolaev was inundated with Soviet honours and had a conspicuous lunar crater named after him.