Results for: Eastern Europe
Twenty Years' Struggle for Freedom in Lithuania.
Audenas, Juozas, editor.
NY: Elta Informaiton service for the Supreme Committee for Liberation of Lithuania, 1963..
First edition. Very good small octavo in stiff green boards. Some wear and fading to edges and corners of boards and dj. Spine and board edgs are browned. A few interior pencil marks. 149 p. with a few illustrations and fold out map in back. A history of the Supreme Committee for Liberation fo Lithuania from its inception under the Germans in 1943 to the date of publication, including background to Lithuania's invasions by Russia and Germany, the Committee's wartime organization for resistance and its move the the United States.
Price: $20.00
Neither Red Nor Dead : Coming of Age in Former Yugoslavia during and after World War II.
Julius, Stevo.
Ann Arbor: Medvista, 2003.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with bumpinbg to heel of spine and roll to binding. Minor scuffing to covers. Inscription on title page and another signature on glossy title page. Number 27 of limited edition of 200. 481 pages with maps and illustrations.
Price: $60.00
Aegean Strategies : Studies of Culture and Environment on the European Fringes.
Kardulias, P. Nick, and Mark T. Shutes.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of covers with minor scuffing. Clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. 313 pages with figures, maps, tables, lists of references cited, and index. A collection of essays on various anthropological, archaeological, and economic issues connected with the regions bordering the Aegean Sea.
Price: $25.00
Prague Spring - Prague Fall : Blank Spots of 1968.
Kun, Miklos. Translated by H. Csatorday.
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1999..
1st English language edition of original Hungarian work done in 1998. Very good hardcover in illustrated boards without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with light bumping to head and heel of spine and some scuffing to covers. 252 pages with footnotes, chronology, bibliography, and index of names. An interesting series of articles and interviews by the historian Miklos Kun over the revolt in Czechoslovakia in 1968 against Soviet control. There are pieces on the recollections of the Soviet ambassador to Prague, General Mayorov, Vasil Bil'ak, Vaclav Slavik, and others.
Price: $20.00
Latvia in the Wars of the 20th Century.
Mangulis, Visvaldis.
Princeton Junction, NJ: Cognition Books, 1983.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers and light bumping to heel of spine. Slight twist to binding. 207 pages with maps, references, and index. A look atm Latvian military history focusing mainly on World Wars One and Two along with the interwar years.
Price: $55.00
The Foreign Policy of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1935.
Vondracek, Felix John.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1937.
Good octavo hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket. Ex-library with call numbers written in white ink on spine and bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Light wer and minor rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and minor bump on lower edge of front panel. Minor scuffing to covers. 451 pages with foldout map, footnotes, bibliography, and index. A detailed analysis of Czechoslovakia's foreign relations from its creation in 1919 to the retirement of president Masaryk.
Price: $20.00
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon : The Record of a Journey through Yugoslavia in 1937. 2 Volumes.
West, Rebecca.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1943.
Two good octavo hardcovers in green cloth binding without dust jackets. Some wear and light rubbing to edges of boards with scuffing to covers of both books. Volume II has some bumping to upper corners of covers and browning along spine. Name of previous owner is written on front free endpapers of both books and bookplates of another owner are on also on the front free endpapers of both books. Page edges are lightly browned. Volume I has 653 pages with maps on endpapers and illustrations. Volume II has 586 pages with maps on endpapers, bibliographical note, and comprehensive index. Rebecca West's (Cicely Isabel Fairfield) classic account of her travels in the Balkans on the eve of World War II.
Price: $65.00
