Russian Revolution Beury Charles E (1 results)

First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front end-paper: "To Mr. Edward L. Richie / with the compliments of the author," signed, dated December, 1920. 12mo (19cm). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt with applied photographic illustration to front cover; vii, [1]-138pp; frontispiece and 31 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones); one folding map. Mild foxing to text, slight external wear; still a sound, complete copy, Very Good. Somewhat uncommon and very well-illustrated account of a journey across Siberia, Russia and Turkey, made in the immediate aftermath of WW1 and the Russian Revolution under the auspices of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. Beury, a West Virginia-born banker and philanthropist, would later serve as Temple University's second President (1925-41). Includes Beury's interpretation of the ascendance of the Bolsheviks, ".not the narrative of detailed happenings so much as the record of the movement as a whole, without an adequate understanding of which no one can justly appreciate Russia in transition.". Signed.…