Survey: A Journal of Soviet and East European Studies, Number 65, October 1967
London: Information Bulletin Ltd., 1967. 116, wraps, includes index for 1967, covers worn, soiled, creased, and partially separated. More
London: Information Bulletin Ltd., 1967. 116, wraps, includes index for 1967, covers worn, soiled, creased, and partially separated. More
Oakland, CA: Inst/Labor & Mental Health, 1991. quarto, 97, wraps, illus., small stains to rear cover and margins of a few pages, ink note margin p. 96, stamp on fr cover, some cover wear. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), Inc., 1989. First Printing. 312, v.2 only, glossary, chronology, bibliography, index, slight darkening to text, some soiling to DJ, small tear in front DJ. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 331, notes, index. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 331, black marks and pencil erasure on front endpaper, erasure on title page. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1988. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 331, notes, index. Inscribed by the author ("Dave Abshire"). More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1978. First Printing. 25 cm, 320, illus., appendix, remainder mark on bottom edge, some DJ wear & soiling, pencil erasure on fr endpaper. Foreword by Brezhnev. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 137 pages. Name in ink on flyleaf. Signed by the author. Fascinating read and insight into the times. This was the "new world order" before the one predicated by the collapse of the USSR. Acheson's goal is to persuade his readers to take the Soviet threat seriously, to concentrate power in American hands (given the limits, for example, of the UN), to maintain and strengthen alliances with free states, and to limit one's efforts to what is possible, rather than desirable. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1981. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 393, Perhaps the definitive Soviet perspective of their experience in WWII. More
London: McGibbon & Kee, 1966. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 253, [3] pages. Footnotes. DJ has wear, scuff, tears, soiling and chips. Starts with The Message of the Hungarian Revolution and then addresses Part 1: Hungary and the World; Part 2: Hungary Ten Years After. Stephen Barlay has contributed, as Appendix I and II, a thorough bibliography of the Revolution, and a most useful chronology of events. No event has moved the conscience of the free world as deeply as the Hungarian revolution of 1956. No other event has assumed such equivocal political significance in the space of ten years. This historic moment can best be characterized by the psychoanalytical formula of over-determination, the plurality of meanings inherent in a single act, a single thought. Published in the tenth year after the Hungarian rising, this book examines that particular watershed in the history of postwar communism as well as setting out its origins and possible consequences. Hungary 1956 was not just an event that held the world enthralled but helpless: it led to radical changes within the country and within the entire Soviet bloc. The Russian leaders could not afford again to find themselves so obviously on the opposite side of popular forces. In a comparable way, the Western powers began to realize that to back revolution without the ability to give effective support was an act without any promise of success. Between them, the contributors to this volume help to explain the significance of the first major revolt against Russian hegemony in southeast Europe after the war, and to look at the future implications as well as past horrors. More
New York: Crane, Russak, [1975]. 23 cm, 98, wraps. More
Moscow: Aeroflot, c1991. Believed to be the last Aeroflot publication from the Soviet Union. Brochure. Approximately 10 pages (including fold-outs), plus covers. RARE surviving Soviet Union era Aeroflot ephemera. This was reported to be the final Aeroflot English publication from the Soviet Union era. This has not been definitively verified but this is believed to be substantially correct. Includes Trans-Siberian Route. Includes 9 number route charts/maps. Most of the titling/naming is in English lettering with only a few places with Cyrillic lettering. Very little narrative (mostly titling). This publication is a series of maps with routes overlaid with routes in red. By 1970, the last year of the five-year plan period, Aeroflot was operating flights to over 3,500 destinations in the Soviet Union, and at the height of the 1970 summer holidays season, the airline was carrying approximately 400,000 passengers per day, and some ninety percent of passengers were being carried on propeller-turbine and jet aircraft.: 28 In January 1971, the Central Administration of International Air Traffic (TsUMVS) was established within the framework of IATA, and became the sole enterprise authorized to operate international flights. Abroad, the airline was known as Aeroflot Soviet Airlines. In 1976, Aeroflot carried its 100 millionth passenger. Its flights were mainly concentrated around the Soviet Union, but the airline also had an international network covering five continents: North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The network included countries such as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Cuba, Mexico and the People's Republic of China. More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint Edition. Approx. 250, chronology, bibliography, index, red mark on bottom edge, some discoloration on endpages, some wear to spine edges. More
Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1976. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [6], 344, [2] pages. DJ is worn and soiled. Some edge soiling. Black mark on bottom edge. Spiro Theodore "Ted" Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1973. He was the second and most recent vice president to resign the office, though unlike John C. Calhoun in 1832, Agnew left office in disgrace. Beginning in early 1973, Agnew was investigated by the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland on suspicion of conspiracy, bribery, extortion and tax fraud. Agnew had accepted payments from contractors during his time as a Maryland official, and the payments had continued into his time as vice president. After denying his guilt for months, Agnew negotiated a plea agreement that would involve his resignation from office. On October 10, 1973, Agnew pled no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion, resigned his office, and was replaced by House Minority Leader Gerald Ford. Agnew spent the remainder of his life quietly, rarely making public appearances. He wrote a novel, and also a memoir defending his actions. More
Washington, DC: Air Force Association, 1970. 28 cm, 70, wraps, illus., text darkened, pencil and ink notations on front cover, mailing label on front cover, some foxing to covers. More
Washington, DC: Air Force Association, 1991. 28 cm, 496, illus. (many in color), weakness to rear board. More
Washington, DC: Air Force Association, 1971. 28 cm, 96, wraps, illus., mailing label and ink notation of front cover, rear cover somewhat soiled. More
New York: Billner & Rouse, c1985. 22 cm, 216, pencil erasure residue on front endpaper, publisher's review slip and press release laid in. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1978. First Printing. 25 cm, 320, illus., slight wear and soiling to boards. More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1992. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 430, map, some edge wear to DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York, N.Y. Random House, 1994. First Edition, Stated. Hardcover. xi, [1], 592, [4] pages. Selective Glossary. Inscribed For Jim Trefil, phisicist, from V. A., lyricist; my best wishes. V. Aksyonov. Chapters are Scythian Helmets; The Kremlin and Its Neighborhood; First Intermission; Second Intermission; The Chopin Cure; The General Line; The Theatrical Avant-Garde; Trotsky's on the Wall; Third Intermission; Fourth Intermission; The Village of Gorelovo and the Luch Collective Farm; Bags of Oxygen; Keen Eyes, Doves, and Little Stars; Tennis, Surgery, and Defensive Measures; The Charlatan Organ Grinder; Life-Giving Bacilli; Firth Intermission, Sixth Intermission; Count Olsufiev's Mansion; Indestructible and Legendary; Come on, Girls, Lend a Hand, Beauties! Above the Eternal Rest; I Recommend That You Not Cry! "I Dream of Hunchbacked Tiflis"; Marble Steps; Seventh Intermission; and Eighth Intermission; Listen--the Thump of Boots; Fireworks by Night; Underground Bivouac, First Intermission, Second Intermission, Dry Rations, Le Bemol; The Poor Boys; The Special Strike Force, Third Intermission, Fourth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Professor and Student; Clouds in Blue; Guest of the Kremlin; The Master of the Kremlin; Firth Intermission; Sixth Intermission; Summer, Youth; A Sentimental Direction; We'll Waltz in the Kremlin; Officers' Candidate School; Seventh Intermission; Eighth Intermission; A Concert for the Front; Vertuti Militari; Temptation by Word; The Ozone Layer; The Path of October; Ninth Intermission; and Tenth Intermission. More
New York, N. Y. Random House, 1999. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. xii, 482, [2] pages. Inscribed to Willy and Kathleen Warner, from their Foxhall, as well as Porcupine Cave, friend Vasya Ansyonov on January 16, 2000. Chapters cover The Procession; The Boulevard; The Premiere; The Terrace; The Sound of the Old Woman; The Lion in the Alioto; Miracle in Atlanta; The Border; Three Points of View; At Night on the Piazza Cicerna; A Quote; and A Meeting. Derived from a Kirkus review: It’s the picaresque history of singer-actor Alexander “Sasha” Korbach’s 13-year (1982—95) odyssey in and out of favor with Soviet authorities, pursuit of the good life in America, and lifelong search for a personal aesthetic—a “new sweet style” compounded of abstract universal and mundane specific elements. Aksyonov tells Sasha’s often beguiling story in a voice that addresses the reader directly. Aksyonov’s ego-driven antihero is an engaging bundle of sexual and creative energies, and the parade of characters orbiting around him—his enthusiastically Americanized ex- wife Anisia, fellow Russian-Americans like Bellovian hustler Tikhomir Barevyatnikov and sexual gameswoman Lenore Yablonsky, and especially Sasha’s American mistress Nora Mansour and her father, his “fourth cousin,” department-store millionaire philanthropist Stanley Korbach. They all have their own unruly reality, and help broaden the novel’s scope. The details of Sasha’s several careers-as filmmaker, professor, and “chairman of the Moscow branch of the Korbach Fund”-are also cunningly manipulated to bring the story to an absolutely stunning comic-apocalyptic conclusion in Jerusalem. Aksyonov’s fiction is well worth it. More
Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), 1989. First Printing. 23 cm, 106, wraps, illus., footnotes, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, [c1951]. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 856, illus., maps (some color fold-out), usual library markings, boards somewhat soiled and edges worn. More
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.75 inches. x, 205, [1] pages. Glossary of Names and Terms. Notes. Index. Ken Aldred was Director of the Council for Arms Control, an independent research body operating within the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London. He was Secretary-General of the national pro-NATO campaigning body Peace Through NATO and was awarded the OBE in the 1994 New Year's Honours. Martin A. Smith was Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. His publications in the field of European and international security include On Rocky Foundations: NATO, the UN and Peace Operations in the Post-Cold War Era. More