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Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Front end paper has been cut out. Book opens to the Series Editorship page. Light wear to the cover, including a few diagonal creases and some foxing; interior pages are clean and unmarked. Moderate foxing on the back cover. Binding is firm.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Illustrated, stiff cover is clean and unmarked with light wear all around edges, hinge rubbed, light spine creases. Tight glued binding. Finger print smudge on p.145 otherwise pages quite clean and unmarked, toned. Double column format. These Readings provide insights into the characteristic conditions of Russian life since 1855 when the great reforms of Alexander II began to be instituted, An outstanding compilation of selections which present a living picture of what the people of Russia experienced and suffered in the process of participating in their country's relatively abrupt changeover from medieval torpor to modern ways. There are first-hand, eye-witness accounts with lucid introductions to each section by the author. The five sections are: Backdrop to Revolution-The Regimented Past; Twilight of the Romanovs-Revolution of 1905; Rise of Bolshevik Power Amid Anarchy-The March Days; NEP and Planned Economy-From Lenin to Stalin; and World War Two and After. xvi, 299 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 1965, D. Van Nostrand Co, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Philcold; (illustratore). First Edition. 512 pp. Pictorial boards; pale blue endpapers; illustrated in full colour throughout. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. Cover art by Phlcold. This anthology contains: Beachhead by Clifford D. Simak; A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Leaving for te Moon by Jules Verne; The Cycap Notebooks by Stephen James; On Mercury by John Munro; Sultana's Dream by Rokheya Sakhawat Hossain; Time After Time by Stephen James; The Worlds of If by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Planetoid 127 by Edgar Wallace; The Time Traveller by H. G. Wells; The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London; The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell; The New Sun by J. S. Fletcher; London Times 1904 by Mark Twain; A Tales of Negative Gravity by Frank R Stockton; The Cylinder Opens by H. G. Wells; The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Monster Maker by W. C. Morrow; Micromegas by Voltaire; Armageddon 2419 AD by Phillip Frances Nowlan; Mellonta Tauta by Edgar Allan Poe; Battling the Morlock by H. G. Wells; and In a Thousand Years by Hans Christian Andersen. Size: 8vo. Book.