Lanin e b emile joseph dillon (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Duodecimo, 288 pages + advertisements for The Humboldt Library, rebound in canvas marked "Standard Library", some pencilled glosses, faded paper sticker on top cover. With "Russia: an Ode" written by Swinburne after reading Lanin's account of "Russian Prisons". Lanin was the pen name used by various writers for the 'Fortnightly Review'. Authorship here is credited to Emile Joseph Dillon, an Irish linguist who was the intrepid Russian correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 1887 to 1914, after winning a Russian wife. Here are chapters on Lying, Dishonesty, Russian Prisons, Sexual Morality, Jews in Russia, Russian Finance: The Racking of the Peasantry, the Russian Censure. Dillon also translated Tolstoi into English.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. KlappentextbTitle:/b Russian Characteristics. Reprinted . from the Fortnightly Review.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of t.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Assez bon. Edition originale. First edition; publisher's red pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt; tight, minimal wear, but narrow water stain at lower margin of the first board and also of the 25 first pages- lower margin of first paste down worn; inside very good, only partly opened, but with a number of pages which had been folded by the precedent owner, early aviator Charles de Lambert, who had Russian origins; there may be a few pencil or pen markings.…