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Hardback. Condition: Collectible: Very Good. 1st American Edition - Stated (Random House - 1985) Very Good in a good+ dust jacket. No marks in text. Dust jacket has mild wear and is intact. Binding is tight and square. xxxv, 1043 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : il. ; 25 cm. . . . . . . . FROM THE DUST JACKET FLAP: Leo Tolstoys tempestuous family life makes a tragic and fascinating story -- one, however.in which most of the blame has been traditionally apportioned to his wife Sophia. This first complete English translation of her diaries casts matters in a startling new light. Sophia Andreevna Tolstoya began to keep a diary at the age of eighteen, shortly after her marriage, and continued until just a month before her death in 1919 at the age of seventy-five. Her diaries give a detailed and illuminating account of the daily events of the Tolstoys family life-the births, marriages, illnesses and love affairs of her thirteen children, numerous grandchildren and countless relatives and servants. They chronicle the comings and goings of the Tolstoyan disciples who frequented their houses in Yasnaya Polyana and Moscow, and the friendships and quarrels with some of nineteenth-century Russia's best-known and loved poets, writers, musicians, politicians and revolutionaries.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First English language edition. Translation by Cathy Porter, with an introduction by Professor R. F. Christian. Block interior is VG+ with some light dust spotting to exterior top of block. Smart black boards have crisp gilt titling to spine. D/j is bright and unclipped with gilt details, and though there is sticker residue to the front and some marking to faded spine, still rated as VG condition. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. Xxxv. 1043pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo (20.5 cm), 288 pp. Publisher's cloth, an illustration tipped in the front board (back cover slightly rubbed). In Russian. "Moscow Book Woodcuts of the 1920s and 1930s." A study of the Moscow school of woodcut book illustrations and its foremost representative, Vladimir Favorsky. …

Softcover. Condition: VG, clean and tight. Small, white stapled wraps with blue Cyrillic lettering; 28 pp. with 14 bw plates. Text in Russian. Exhibition catalogue of works by Pavel Pavlinova, a painter, graphic artist, sculptor and art theorist. List of works pictured range from 1912 to 1939, from the selection of woodcuts, graphics, drawings, watercolors and oils exhibited. A 3-page essay is included. Rare volume.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Slip Case. 4to. pp 126. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Text in English and Indonesian. Somewhat damp scent to pages, otherwise VG in VG+ dust jacket and VG+ slip-case. …