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  • THE DEATH OF ACHILLES. by Akunin, Boris.. Appreciation by H. F. R. Keating.
    Akunin, Boris.. Appreciation by H. F. R. Keating.
    THE DEATH OF ACHILLES.

    Edition: Limited, signed first edition.

    Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Moscow detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, originally published in Russian in 1998. Translated by Andrew Bromfield.. Numbered 50 out of 80, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by H. F. R. Keating. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. 370 pp. ISBN: 1-873567715.

    Condition: Fine in fine original mylar dust jacket.

    Book ID: 71195
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  • THE DEATH OF ACHILLES. by Akunin, Boris.. Appreciation by H. F. R. Keating.
    Akunin, Boris.. Appreciation by H. F. R. Keating.
    THE DEATH OF ACHILLES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, (2006). First edition - Mystery featuring Moscow detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, originally published in Russian in 1998. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. 320 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of front cover)

    Book ID: 81227
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  • THE WINTER QUEEN. by Akunin, Boris. (preudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili)
    Akunin, Boris. (preudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili)
    THE WINTER QUEEN.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Moscow detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, set in 1873 Moscow where a young law student has just committed suicide. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. the first book by Akunin to be published in the UK. SIGNED on the title page by the translator, Andrew Bromfield. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-297829742.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (light toning to the pages, few spots on bottom edge).

    Book ID: 82710
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  • SUNFALL. by Cherryh, C, J.
    Cherryh, C, J.
    SUNFALL.

    Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.

    New York: DAW Books, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of six stories set in major cities of the world - Paris, Rome, Peking, London, New York and Moscow - in the far future. SIGNED on the title page. 153 pp. Striking dust jacket art by Gary Viskupic.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 64520
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  • Daniel, Yuli (1925-1988.)
    PRISON POEMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chicago: J. Philip O'Hara, Inc., (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 21 poems written while Daniel was in prison and on trial in Moscow (the trial of Daniel and fellow writer Andrei Synavsky is considered by some as the birth of the modern Soviet dissident movement.). Bilingual edition with the original Russian and English translations by David Burg and Arthur Boyars. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-879555017.

    Condition: Very near fine in very good minus dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj.)

    Book ID: 54619
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  • THROUGH BLACK EYES: Journeys of A Black Artist To East Africa and Russia. by Fax, Elton C.
    Fax, Elton C.
    THROUGH BLACK EYES: Journeys of A Black Artist To East Africa and Russia.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dodd, Mead, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Fax's trips first to African - to Uganda, Northern Sudan, Ethopia, Tanzania - and then to Moscow and the then Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. "In each of these exotic areas, so different in many respects, he was to find the history of oppression by colonialism, as it had occurred in similar ways among his own people at home. Everywhere he went the artist in Elton Fax recorded with beautiful drawings, even as the text did in words, what he saw with his own discerning eyes to produce a fascinating parts of the world." Illustrated with drawings by the author/artist. Index. x, 203 pp. ISBN: 0-396068421.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tears to dj, minor edgewear)

    Book ID: 61477
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  • HEAD OF STATE. by Hoyt, Richard.
    Hoyt, Richard.
    HEAD OF STATE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1985). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An offbeat thriller set in Moscow, where a poet - after getting out of the Gulag - becomes embroiled in a plot to steal the head of Lenin. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-31293310X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 69083
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  • DEFECTORS. by Kanon, Joseph.
    Kanon, Joseph.
    DEFECTORS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Edgar award winning writer set in the early 1960s at the height of the Cold War. "In 1949, Frank Weeks was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. . .And at first Frank is still Frank, the same bond of affection that transcends ideology. Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, still capable of treachery, still actively working for 'the service.' . . The gripping story of one…

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    New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Edgar award winning writer set in the early 1960s at the height of the Cold War. "In 1949, Frank Weeks was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. . .And at first Frank is still Frank, the same bond of affection that transcends ideology. Then Simon begins to glimpse another Frank, still capable of treachery, still actively working for 'the service.' . . The gripping story of one family torn apart by the divided loyalties of the Cold War, but it's also a revealing look at the wider community of defectors, American and British, living a twilit Moscow existence, granted privileges but never trusted, spies who have escaped one prison only to find themselves trapped in another that is even more sinister, a world of secrets, where no one can be trusted and murder is just collateral damage." 290 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-1501121395.

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    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 88847
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  • Lee, Andrea.
    RUSSIAN JOURNAL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's first book, an account of a year she and her husband spent in Moscow as graduate students. Nominated for the National Book Award. ISBN: 0-394-51891.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 23315
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  • RUSSIAN JOURNAL. by Lee, Andrea.
    Lee, Andrea.
    RUSSIAN JOURNAL.

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: Random House, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's first book, an account of a year she and her husband spent in Moscow as graduate students. Nominated for the National Book Award. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-394-51891.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 72389
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  • GHOSTWRITTEN. by Mitchell, David.
    Mitchell, David.
    GHOSTWRITTEN.

    Edition: First thus- the first Vintage International trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (2001). Mitchell's remarkable first novel - "Nine disparate but interconnected tales (and a short coda) . . . examine 21st century notions of community, coincidence, causality, catastrophe and fate. Each episode in this mammoth socio-cultural tapestry is related in the first person, and set in a different international locale. The gripping first story introduces Keisuke Tanaka, aka Quasar, a fanatical Japanese doomsday cultist who's on the lam in Okinawa after completing a successful gas attack in a Tokyo subway. The links between Quasar and the novel's next narrator, Satoru Sonada, a teenage jazz aficionado, are tenuous at first. [but] as the plot progresses the connections between narrators become more complex,"(PW Weekly) Among his many awards,…

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    New York: Vintage Books, (2001). Mitchell's remarkable first novel - "Nine disparate but interconnected tales (and a short coda) . . . examine 21st century notions of community, coincidence, causality, catastrophe and fate. Each episode in this mammoth socio-cultural tapestry is related in the first person, and set in a different international locale. The gripping first story introduces Keisuke Tanaka, aka Quasar, a fanatical Japanese doomsday cultist who's on the lam in Okinawa after completing a successful gas attack in a Tokyo subway. The links between Quasar and the novel's next narrator, Satoru Sonada, a teenage jazz aficionado, are tenuous at first. [but] as the plot progresses the connections between narrators become more complex,"(PW Weekly) Among his many awards, Mitchell has been selected as one of the best young British authors by Granta. 425 pp. ISBN: 0-375724508.

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    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81342
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  • BEQUEST. by Shevchenko, A. K.
    Shevchenko, A. K.
    BEQUEST.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Headline (Hodder), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (third book), a thriller set in Moscow: "A Secret Russian File; A Dangerous Legacy, The Chase Begins." SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 346 pp. ISBN: 978-0755356355.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock).

    Book ID: 79590
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  • TATIANA: An Arkady Renko Novel. by Smith, Martin Cruz
    Smith, Martin Cruz
    TATIANA: An Arkady Renko Novel.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A damning picture of today's Russia, a novel inspired by the slain journalist and freedom fighter Anna Politkovskaya. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58908
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  • TATIANA: An Arkady Renko Novel. by Smith, Martin Cruz
    Smith, Martin Cruz
    TATIANA: An Arkady Renko Novel.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). First edition - A damning picture of today's Russia, a novel inspired by the slain journalist and freedom fighter Anna Politkovskaya. 290 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58951
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  • TATIANA: An Arkady Renko Novel. by Smith, Martin Cruz
    Smith, Martin Cruz
    TATIANA: An Arkady Renko Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - A damning picture of today's Russia, a novel inspired by the slain journalist and freedom fighter Anna Politkovskaya. 290 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-1439140215.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62353
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  • THE ICE CURTAIN. by White, Robin.
    White, Robin.
    THE ICE CURTAIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and set in contemporary Russia, where behind a curtain of ice in far northern Siberia is the world's richest diamond mine. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-385335161.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88086
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