New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The definitive biography of this Russian writer, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century and a writer who revolutionized modern poetry . The author spent 10 years writing this, has devoted much of her scholarly life to the study of Akhmatova, edited the Complete Poems and had access to hundreds of otherwise restricted documents. Presents a vivid picture of life among Soviet writers during the Revolution, and under Stalin and finally under Krushchev. Photographs. Very entensive notes and bibliography. Index xv, 619 pp. ISBN: 0-312112416.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Scribner's, 1943. dj. Hardcover - A picture of Western Europe on the eve of the second World War, as seen by Soviet officials, written by this Russian writer mostly during his exile in Paris. Translated by Nicholas Wreden.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Russian author's first novel to appear in English - one which takes the term "kangaroo trial" to extremes - set in 1949, this is a savage satire confronting the hypocrisy and cruelty of the Stalinist regime. Translated by Tamara Glenny. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374180687.

New York & Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel which begins in 1948 in a slave labor camp above the Arctic Circle in Stalin's Soviet Union. The Sunday Times called this 'a slender. moving novel, streaked with dark comedy. . . Amis's best novel since London Fields.' 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1400044559.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of six short stories, based on the author's experiences as a former Soviet career officer, and which reveal the horror of the prison system. Andreyev became a political emigre and witness against the Soviet concentration camps. Translated from the Russian by Fred P Berry. 240 pp. Dust jacket by Gordon Martin.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Atria, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - An international thriller. 501 pp. Map of Russia endpapers. ISBN: 9781416550402.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of six short novels, by this Russian emigree writer, novels rooted in the lives of those who fled the Russian Revolution to live in exile in Paris, as Berberova herself did for many years. Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-679402810.

NY & London: The Free Press. (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nobel prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky was also a great talker as well as a writer. These interviews, recorded over a period of more than 15 years, starting in 1978, in Brodsky's Greenwich Village apartment, recount his childhood in war-torn Leningrad, his life as an underground poet, standing trial in Kruschev's Russia, imprisonment in the icy north his expulsion from the Soviet Union and more. Photography by Mariana Volkov. Translated by Marian Schwartz. Photographs. 306 pp with notes and index. ISBN: 02982450.

New York: The Book League of America, 1942. dj. Hardcover - A story of war behind the German lines during World War II, based on events which Caldwell witnessed while in Russia. 283 pp.

New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fantasy novel by this Hugo-award winning author, sequel to Rusalka and like that novel set in the haunted forest wilderness somewhere north of Kiev. 328 pp. Dust jacket art by Keith Parkinson. ISBN: 0-345-359542.

New York: Junior Literary Guild/ Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1935. dj. Hardcover - The story of two young girls and their families in the last days of Imperial Russia and during the first World War and the Russian revolution which followed. The author, Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty was born in Moscow, so she is writing about a world and events she knew well. Illustrated by Kate Seredy. 270 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel set in 18th century Russia, in St. Petersburg during the reign of Catherine the Great, This "reimagines the life of St. Xenia, one of Russias most revered and mysterious holy figures, in a work of historical fiction that recounts the unlikely transformation of a young girl, a child of privilege, into a saint beloved by the poor." SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 978-0061231452.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1954.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive study, which looks at all the oil producing areas of the world - Mexico, Venezuala, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and more, policies such as the 50-50 profit sharing, etc. Includes an extensive statistical appendix. Photographs, map endpapers, index. 400 pp

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Set in St. Petersburg in 1916 and California in 1932 this is "a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman." SIGNED on the title page and dated in Oct 2017, that is, before publication. 804 pp.

New York: M. Evans & Company, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of intrigue set in 1941 as the Germans are advancing on Russia - and a group of men plot to restore the Romanovs and remove Stalin from power. 413 pp plus a 1 p historical note. Dust jacket art by Wladislaw Finne. ISBN: 0-871311593.

New York: The Viking Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Gorky's masterpiece, originally written in 1901 and performed the following year in Moscow (after being significantly censored) to enough acclaim that it was banned in Russia. This translation by Kitty Hunter-Blair and Jeremy Brooks is from 1972 for the RSC.. Includes a chronology of Gorky's life, introduction by Edward Braun, preface by Jeremy Brooks, a list of the original Royal Shakespeare Company cast in 1972, and the lyrics and notation of song sung in play. xviii, 90 pp. ISBN: 0-670443549.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1991). Hardcover first edition - A book which reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and an analysis of Japan's rise to its present position in the world's economy. I don't think he could have imagined how prophetic he was being when he said the American century is over! 126 pp. ISBN: 0-68810391X.

New York: Armchair Detective Library, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first hardcover edition in the United States of the first novel featuring Moscow Police Inspector Profiry Rostnikov, originally published as a paperback original in 1981. Includes a new preface by Kaminsky. One of 100 copies, numbered and SIGNED by the author on a special preliminary page. v, 239 pp. ISBN: 1-56287019X.

London: Macmillan, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the first novel featuring Moscow Police Inspector Profiry Rostnikov, (published in the US as a paperback original under the title "Death of a Dissident.")
A dissident - the subject of a show trial in progress - is murdered with a sickle. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-333318463.

New York: Holiday House, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An adaptation of the Russian folktale 'Ivanko, the Bear's Son.' SIGNED on the title page by Kimmel. Illustrated in full color (watercolors and colored pencil on diazo prints) by Charles Mikolaycak. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8234-09023.

New York: Greenwillow Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A retelling of twelve tales of Krylov, the 19th century Russian poet and fabulist, beautifully illustrated in full color by award-winning artist Anita Lobel, Author's notes and sources. Large format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-688-123104.

New York: New Horizon/ Transnational Publishers, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Russian by William E. Butler. From the dj, 'In this fictional journal, th renowned author of BABI YAR recounts his thoughts, feelings and activities during his first journey to Sibera in the mid-1950's. . . These vivid memoirs of a perplexed young socialist record the growth of a sensitive, perceptive human being caught between his love for - and disillusionment with - modern Russia." Translator's note. ix, 180 pp. ISBN: 0-88282-3000.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fantasy novel inspired by the classic Russian fairy tale. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-312-858124.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Russian and edited by Michael Glenny with additional contributions by Mary Chaffin and Linda Aldwinckle. "Central to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 'The Oak and the Calf'... is his critical, controversial portrait of the late Aleksandr Tvardovsky, editor of the liberal Soviet journal Novy Mir which launched Solzhenitsyn as a writer. Now we have a powerful rebuttal, written originally in samizdat by Novy Mir's deputy editor-literary critic who witnessed the tense events Solzhenitsyn relates in his memoir." (PW) Photographs, notes. xvi, 183 pp. ISBN: 0-262120860.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in his highly praised "Holmes" series, set in Russia. Second state with the pages with the rather numerous errors replaced. 285 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 1-556110111.