Holly Smith Translator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** A very nice glossy pictorial hard cover copy, very clean and well bound with sturdy sewn binding, without flaw. Oblong 7 X 4.5" 192 pages (1983), Kiev. Photo - guide. Translated from the Russian by Holly Smith. Schematic plans of the near and far caves and museum on end papers. There are four state museums in the grounds of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery : Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Folk Art of the Ukrainian SSR, Museum of Books and Bookprinting of the Ukrainian SSR, Museum of Historic Treasures of the Ukrainian SSR, and Museum of Theatre, Music, and Cinema of the Ukrainian SSR. The Lavra caves served as an underground monastery cemetery and were considered a 'holy place'. Beautifully illustrated throughout in colour and black-and-white. Color and Black & White Photographs (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Adventure & Fantasy" A collection of stories from Russian authors, printed in the USSR for an English-speaking audience. Authors include Bulychev, Larionova, Stern, Kantor, Rybakov, Drugal and Korabelnikov. Front cover has a reading crease and a bumped and creased upper corner; hinges have some wear; some edge wear; importer sticker on the back cover. Interior clean and white.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Near fine, oversized cloth hardcover shows just a touch of wear, in very good dust jacket that shows some rubbing, wrinkling and mild edgewear. 207 pages with 164 illustrations, 133 in colour. Still a pleasing copy of this work that ".contains reproductions of Russian arms and armour from the outstanding collection of the Armoury in the Moscow Kremlin, which includes almost all the most perfect works created by the talented Russian armourers and gunsmiths over the course of several centuries.".…