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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. [3] pp., [77] color plates. ; 26 x 35 cm. ; LCCN: 58-42668 ; OCLC: 4083672 ; LC: DK601; Dewey: 914.731 ; Photo captions in Russian, English, French and German ; decorative endpapers ; this copy of the large format color photo guide to Moscow was own ed by one of the members of the US Exhibition to Moscow, organized by Clarence Francis, the General Foods Corporation special consultant to Eisenhower serving on the committee that supervised the tour in July of 1959. This was the time of the famous "Kitchen Debate" between Khruschev and Nixon ; the previous owner has written "July 1959" on the title page. Nixon's itinerary for that month included his arrival on July 23, his visit to the Chaikovsky St. Market on July 24th, followed by Nixon' s tour or Russia, which began on July 27th; on this trip, Robert Webster of the Rand Corporation suddenly chose to defect to the Soviet Union on July 11, and Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to contact members of the Exhibition while in Russia ; with a few notes by the owner of the book detailing events on the trip, particularly to the State Department Store during the first week of July; a very interesting memento of a significant moment at the depth of the Cold War ; one image has been removed and trimmed, but laid back in ; FAIR. Book.