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INTOURIST: A Collection of Material Relating to Moscow Theatrical Performances 1930's -1960's; with the majority of the material aimed at Western Visitors to the USSR, produced & supplied by Intourist by [SOVIET UNION] [PERFORMING ARTS] [INTOURIST] [VARIOUS: VOLKOV, N.; MAYAKOVSKY, V. STANISLAVSKY, K. GORKI, M. etc.]

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Title: INTOURIST: A Collection of Material Relating to Moscow Theatrical Performances 1930's -1960's; with the majority of the material aimed at Western Visitors to the USSR, produced & supplied by Intourist
Author: [SOVIET UNION] [PERFORMING ARTS] [INTOURIST] [VARIOUS: VOLKOV, N.; MAYAKOVSKY, V. STANISLAVSKY, K. GORKI, M. etc.]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Moscow; New York; Leningrad: Various; Intourist, 1933-1966. 90+ (with a few additional duplicates) pieces of ephemeral material ranging from page copiously illustrated tour guides produced in the US on behalf of the USSR tourist initiatives, to single sheet recital tickets and programs clearly produced to the lowest costs and standards, many of which were not intended to last more than a single occasion. Condition is largely Very Good, with a few of the pieces having some wear or damp staining, a number of pieces have small "Book Sale" ink stamps, presumably pieces that originated in the same collection and were then donated somewhere for sale. A fascinating and varied collection of theatrical and tourist ephemera, with much of it originating in one of the most dynamic and experimental periods in Soviet performing arts. "Good intentions do not play a role in art. In art, only achievements play a role." A.V. Lunacharski. Intourist was originally formed in 1929 as "Всероссийское акционерное общество по приему иностранных туристов ВАО «Интурист»" which more or less translates as the "All-Russian Joint-Stock Company for the Acceptance of Foreign Tourists". It was far more than a travel agency, however, controlling as it did almost all tourist access from the West into the USSR, and operating on a number of levels to carefully control and curate the view of Soviet Russia that was presented to the rest of the world. The president of Intourist in 1933, Wilhelm Kurz of the Central Committee, was the first USSR visitor to be formally accepted by the US when he visited immediately after the nation had been granted recognition. Higher officials in Intourist (actually "иностранный турист", with the popular name simply being a contraction of the Russian language phrasing of "Foreign Tourist", or "Innostrannyy Turist") tended to be secure and solid party officials whose loyalty to the state was rarely questioned, the main reason for this being that their interactions with foreign nations (and nationals) increased the possibility of defection; something Intourist learned early on when their UK representative in London, Aron Sheinman, declined to return to the Motherland when summoned, and became a British citizen in 1939, which was probably rather good timing. Intourist in the 1930's, midway through another Soviet Five Year Plan, was given the brief to attract wealthy Western culture vultures and businesspeople to the USSR, and display to them (with astonishing attention to detail), how much better the Soviet people were doing than their Western counterparts, whilst also planting the seeds for future collaboration. The US was in the midst of the Depression, not that the people paying $465 for their trip tickets in 1934 needed to worry much about that, but being met from your luxurious "Soviet Ship" and ferried to your Moscow hotel by a fleet of brand new Lincoln town cars for two solid weeks of high culture and fine dining, being escorted every step of the way by guides and assistants, must have made quite an impression. The number of Americans who could afford a new Lincoln was pretty small at that point, and the number who could travel even smaller, so the Intourist agenda was aimed to within a minute of accuracy at the Westerners who could do them the most good; the rich, the famous, and the culturally influential. There's nothing accidental about the Intourist literature being filled with Margaret Bourke White's photographs, and commentaries from notable Western culture critics and authorities. Tales abound, from the Western tourists able to take advantage of Intourist's services, of constant surveillance, an absence of any freedom of movement (usually disguised by the concept that there was so much to see in the Wonderland of the USSR that wandering off would just mean you missed the best parts), and some very strict non-fraternisation policies that only eased off after 1953 when Stalin's strictures against marrying non-Soviet citizens were rolled back. At the height of the Cold War, a period parts of this collection span, Intourist was essentially an arm of the KGB rather than a tour company; hotels were bugged, drivers recorded all conversations, the guides reported even the most casual of disclosures to their superiors, and no opportunity was lost to gather information on the one hand, and disseminate pro-soviet propaganda on the other. Itineraries of Intourist tours for the period show very clearly that even the First Class tourists paying an eye-watering premium were not permitted anything other than the most token periods of 'freedom', with one Moscow-Leningrad tour timetabling only 8 hours of 'unsupervised' time spread across 10 days beginning at 8am and ending at around 11pm. All forms of Soviet culture from collective farm visits, to mountain hikes, to visits to the Bolshoi served a concrete purpose; to showcase the USSR's successes whilst concealing any of its blemishes. Impromptu hangouts with the actors at the Moscow State Theatre were in fact carefully scripted and choreographed encounters with no dissonant (or dissident) notes, night life was restricted to a carefully chosen list of venues, and wherever possible visitors were kept moving from one location to another in quick succession, emphasizing the cavalcade of wonders whilst denying any insights that might be gathered by more leisurely viewing. Looking behind the scenery, would only result in you seeing more scenery. "in the alternate universe that was the Soviet Union, the 'giant squid' of the Soviet state [would] engulf the traveler.. [There were] myriad ways in which the Soviet tourist monopoly, Intourist, both hindered the foreigner and shielded him from the vagaries of Soviet material life, and above all, the psychological costs of 'routine surveillance'... and the barriers the Soviets erected between foreigners and unvarnished (and uncomfortable) truths about the Soviet Union." Alex Hazanov "Porous Empire; Foreign Visitors and the Post-Stalin Soviet State" University of Pennsylvania 2019. Parts of this collection have some cursory presence in OCLC, but the ephemeral nature of the majority of pieces means that their specific representation is largely invisible in US institutions.

The End of Eternity by Asimov, Isaac

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Title: The End of Eternity
Author: Asimov, Isaac
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with slight wear to cloth at extremities, scratch to rear cover, pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, light tanning and light edge war, chipping to rear flap fold.

A collection of 26 offprints of the chemical research by Woodward, Robert B - NOBEL PRIZE ARCHIVE

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Title: A collection of 26 offprints of the chemical research
Author: Woodward, Robert B - NOBEL PRIZE ARCHIVE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good - fine.
Description: Various dates.. As issued.. Very good - fine.. 1] Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Natural Products. Nobel Lecture, 1965; 2] The Structure of Tetrodotoxin, [1964]; 3] The Structure and Biogenesis of the Macrolides, a New Class of Products, [1956]; 4] The Total Synthesis of Strychnine, 1955; 5] The Total Synthesis of Vitamin B12, [1973]; 6] Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Natural Products, 1968; 7] Same, 1971; 8] The Total Synthesis of Quinine, 1945; 9] The Total Synthesis of Steroids, 1952; 10] The Constituions of Cevine and Some Related Alkaloids, 1954; 11] The Synthesis of Lanosterol, 1957; 12] The Total Synthesis of Lysergic Acid, 1956; 13] The Total Synthesis of Chlorophyll, 1960; 14] Totalsynthese des Chlorophylls* (based on the previous paper) [*Basel Chem. Gesell. - 1960]; 15] The Mechanism of the Diels-Alder Reaction, 1959; 16] The Total Synthesis of Reserpine, 1958; 17] The Total Synthesis of Strychnine, 1963; 18] The Structure of Terramycin, 1953; 19] Selection Rules for Sigmatropic Reactions, 1965; 20] Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions, 1965; 21] Selection Rules for Concerted Cycloaddition Reactions, 1965; 22] The Structure of Magnamycin, 1965; 23] The Structure of Streptonigrin, 1963; 24] Orbital Symmetries and Orientational Effects in a Sgmatropic Reaction,1965; 25] Orbital Symmetries and Endo-Exo Relationships in Concerted Cycloaddition Reactions, 1965; 26] Roald Hoffmann, a signed presentation of a mimeograph of the Nobel Lecture for 1981 -"Building Bridges Between Inorganic and Organic Chemistry", [2 - cover title, verso blank], 58 pp. [recto and verso], some text illustrations. He is considered to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subject, especially in the synthesis of complex natural products and the determination of their molecular structure. He worked closely with Roald Hoffmann on theoretical studies of chemical reactions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965 (as was Hoffmann in 1981). He spent his career at Harvard. By the 1960s he was appointed Donner Professor of Science devoting the balance of his career to pure research, free of any teaching responsibility. Many of Woodward's syntheses were described as spectacular by his colleagues and before he did them it was thought by some that it would be impossible to create these substances in the lab. Woodward's syntheses were also described as having an element of art in them, and since then, synthetic chemists have always looked for elegance as well as utility in synthesis. His work also involved the exhaustive use of the then newly developed techniques of infrared spectroscopy and later, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Another important feature of Woodward's syntheses was their attention to stereochemistry or the particular configuration of molecules in three-dimensional space. Most natural products of medicinal importance are effective, for example as drugs, only when they possess a specific stereochemistry. This creates the demand for 'stereoselective synthesis', producing a compound with a defined stereochemistry. While today a typical synthetic route routinely involves such a procedure, Woodward was a pioneer in showing how, with exhaustive and rational planning, one could conduct reactions that were stereoselective. Many of his syntheses involved forcing a molecule into a certain configuration by installing rigid structural elements in it, another tactic that has become standard today. In this regard, especially his syntheses of reserpine and strychnine were landmarks. In the early 1960s, Woodward began work on what was the most complex natural product synthesized to datevitamin B12. The work was finally published in 1973, and it marked a landmark in the history of organic chemistry. The synthesis included almost a hundred steps, and involved the characteristic rigorous planning and analyses that had always characterised Woodward's work. That same year, based on observations that Woodward had made during the B12 synthesis, he and Roald Hoffmann devised rules (now called the WoodwardHoffmann rules) for elucidating the stereochemistry of the products of organic reactions. Woodward formulated his ideas (which were based on the symmetry properties of molecular orbitals) based on his experiences as a synthetic organic chemist.

The Yankee Whaler. by Ashley, Clifford W.

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Title: The Yankee Whaler.
Author: Ashley, Clifford W.
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Condition: First trade edition, a limited edition of 1625 copies, and one of the key books on American whaling. Still the best general sour
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First trade edition, a limited edition of 1625 copies, and one of the key books on American whaling. Still the best general source of whaling know-how, with Ashleys inimitable illustrations and much technical information on whaleships and whaling, as well as scrimshaw. Forster 160. Blank recto of color frontispiece shows some damp staining, else fine condition in publisher's cloth over boards with top edge gilt. As pretty a copy of this book as I've seen.. 28 cm. xxiv, 379 pp. b/w and color plates.

Quadrupeds of North America. by Audobon.

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Title: Quadrupeds of North America.
Author: Audobon.
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Condition: Oversize book, postage at cost. VG in dj.
Description: Secaucus NJ: The Wellfleet Press, (1989). Oversize book, postage at cost. VG in dj.. 31 cm. 440 pp. Color plates.

The Story of Greenwich. by Aslet, Clive.

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Title: The Story of Greenwich.
Author: Aslet, Clive.
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Condition: 'Clive Anslet brings the old and new vividly to life'. "The Times", in a superb and beautifully illustrated account of the his
Description: Cambridge MA.: Harvard University Press., 1999.. 'Clive Anslet brings the old and new vividly to life'. "The Times", in a superb and beautifully illustrated account of the history of Greenwich, from Roman times to today. An elegant book in fine condition . 24 cm. 288 pp. Title pages double page color landscape. Half title b/w engraving. Overleaf color cartouche landscape. Full and double page color,sepia, and b/w facsimiles, seascapes, studies, architectural engravings and drawings, photographs and portraits. Part page b/w and color sketches, elevations, maps, caricatures, portraits with b/w engravings and reproductions and b/w and color photographs. Front and rear pastedowns and blanks Stanford's map of London 1886.

Back to the Wall (Announcement Card) by BICKERTON, Ashley

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Title: Back to the Wall (Announcement Card)
Author: BICKERTON, Ashley
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Condition: Minor bump to top corner; near fine.
Description: New York: Sonnabend, 1996. Minor bump to top corner; near fine.. Announcement card (4.5 x 6.5 inches) for a Sonnabend exhibition (New York, May 4 - Jun. 1, 1996), with humorous text and borders printed to recto in reflective gilt, referencing Cat Stevens' name change. With exhibition details printed to verso. A return to painting for Bickerton, who later referred to this as "one of the angriest shows I've done—and that's when I work the best.

POLITICS & POETICS by ARISTOTLE

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Title: POLITICS & POETICS
Author: ARISTOTLE
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Condition: Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase
Description: Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure. Copy #1213 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

THE BIRDS by ARISTOPHANES

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Title: THE BIRDS
Author: ARISTOPHANES
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Condition: Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a Fine chemise and lightly soiled slipcase
Description: New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a Fine chemise and lightly soiled slipcase. Marian Parry. Quarto (7-7/8" x 11") bound in classic parchment with decorations in ochre and blue with a polished black calf spine; 72 double-folded pages. Translated from the Greek and with an introduction by Dudley Fitts. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Marian Parry. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

Deep Valley by Totheroh, Dan

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Title: Deep Valley
Author: Totheroh, Dan
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Description: New York: L.B. Fischer. Very Good+. (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [nice clean copy, minor wear to lower extremities, tiny dent in top edge of front cover]. Uncommon novel by a California author better known as a playwright and occasional screenwriter. Set along the California coast in the Big Sur region, the story revolves around a rural girl who becomes pregnant by a convict working on a road gang; he subsequently kills a foreman, and the two flee into the wilderness. Filmed quite effectively by director Jean Negulesco for Warner Bros. in 1947, with Ida Lupino and Dane Clark as the doomed lovers. (Baird & Greenwood 2428) NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. .

CHAUCER by Ackroyd, Peter

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Title: CHAUCER
Author: Ackroyd, Peter
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ISBN: 9780701169855
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Ackroyd on the title page. Color and black and white illustrations. Faint beginning page toning as is common with this book; otherwise, in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. First in a series of short biographies by Ackroyd of "some of the most important men and women in the history of the world." . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

1865-1900. THE CONFEDERACY AND THE TRANSVAAL: A PEOPLE'S OBLIGATION TO ROBERT E. LEE. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 1901 by Adams, Charles Francis

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Title: 1865-1900. THE CONFEDERACY AND THE TRANSVAAL: A PEOPLE'S OBLIGATION TO ROBERT E. LEE. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 1901
Author: Adams, Charles Francis
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. 25, [1] pp. Stapled as issued. Wrappers absent, otherwise complete and Very Good. An appreciation of General Lee's decision to surrender, and to refrain from guerrilla warfare.

Baby Bear's Chairs by Yolen, Jane

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Title: Baby Bear's Chairs
Author: Yolen, Jane
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ISBN: 9780152051143
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Description: New York: Gulliver Books, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpaginated. Very good hardback in a very good dust jacket.

Evidence in Athenian Courts by Bonner, Robert Johnson

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Title: Evidence in Athenian Courts
Author: Bonner, Robert Johnson
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ISBN: 9781584777236
Description: 2006. ISBN-13: 9781584777236; ISBN-10: 1584777230. Bonner, Robert Johnson. Evidence in Athenian Courts. Chicago: Originally published: University of Chicago Press, 1905. 98 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777236. ISBN-10: 1584777230. Hardcover. New. $19.95 * "This is a learned, keen and vigorous essay dealing with the subject of Evidence in Athenian Courts from the standpoint of English law. (...) Writers on the theory and practice of evidence wherever considered or used, will find this work valuable. And practitioners had better not turn their backs on an account of classics which goes into the human nature of art in the way indicated by the following description of how Greek speech writers served their clients who were conventionally supposed to use their own language about their own cases.": Charles E. Grinnell, American Law Review 42 (1948) 946.

Bad Girls Don't Die by Alender, Katie

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Title: Bad Girls Don't Die
Author: Alender, Katie
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ISBN: 9780545238144
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Description: New York: Scholastic, 2010. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x1. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2010 Trade Paperback. 346 pp. When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks nothing of it. Kasey is a weird kid. Period. Alexis is considered weird, too, by the kids in her high school, by her parents, even by her own Goth friends. Things get weirder, though, when the old house they live in starts changing. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in. Kasey is changing, too. Her blue eyes go green and she speaks in old-fashioned language, then forgets chunks of time. Most disturbing of all is the dangerous new chip on Kasey's shoulder. The formerly gentle, doll-loving child is gone, and the new Kasey is angry. Alexis is the only one who can stop her sister - but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore

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