Charles e beury (7 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front board and spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1918. 138 pages. Black and white photograph of a Russian town on plate attached to front board. Top and bottom edges of spine as well as corners of boards have some minor wear. Gold lettering on front board is shiny and legible. Gold lettering on spine is dull but still legible. Photograph of the author's commission from the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian relief as frontispiece. Pages are lightly toned around edges but tidy. Black and white photographs of Russian cities and landscapes throughout. Binding strong with no missing pages. Very Good condition. Includes a folded map before Chapter 1 of the route taken by the author on his journey through Russia, Persia, and Turkey. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front end-paper: "To Mr. Edward L. Richie / with the compliments of the author," signed, dated December, 1920. 12mo (19cm). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt with applied photographic illustration to front cover; vii, [1]-138pp; frontispiece and 31 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones); one folding map. Mild foxing to text, slight external wear; still a sound, complete copy, Very Good. Somewhat uncommon and very well-illustrated account of a journey across Siberia, Russia and Turkey, made in the immediate aftermath of WW1 and the Russian Revolution under the auspices of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. Beury, a West Virginia-born banker and philanthropist, would later serve as Temple University's second President (1925-41). Includes Beury's interpretation of the ascendance of the Bolsheviks, ".not the narrative of detailed happenings so much as the record of the movement as a whole, without an adequate understanding of which no one can justly appreciate Russia in transition.". Signed.…