Molitvoslov s kanonami i akafistami s prilozhenim pravila ko Sv. Prichashcheniiu. Vosproizvedenie izdaniia Kazansko - Bogoroditskago muzhskogo Monastyria v Harbin s dopolneniiami - Rare Book Insider
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Molitvoslov s kanonami i akafistami s prilozhenim pravila ko Sv. Prichashcheniiu. Vosproizvedenie izdaniia Kazansko – Bogoroditskago muzhskogo Monastyria v Harbin s dopolneniiami

Tipografii Nikita - Do-Shin Press, Shanhai: 1949
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First edition presumed; 5 x 3 1/2; pp. I-V, [2], 4-286, [1]; original wraps appear to have been replaced by plain brown paper; chips to corners of first and last leaves and mild spotting; in fair to good condition.An unusual, apparently unrecorded in OCLC prayer book with Acathist Hymns, it was published for the Russian emigre community in Shanghai.
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The Manufacture of Ice on a Commercial Scale and with Commercial Economy, by Steam or Water Power: the Invention of Alexander C. Twining of New Haven, Connecticut

Twining, Alexander C. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 4-22; self-wraps, tied with a string (string replaced); several small nicks to edges and tips of spine; a few minor spots to wraps; in very good condition.Alexander Catlin Twining (1801 - 1884) was an inventor, astronomer, engineer, author, and educator, best known for his work on refrigeration and ice-making. Firmly believing that manufactured ice would be more economical and convenient than natural ice, especially in the Southern states, he began experimenting in 1848 using ether as a refrigerant. With utter confidence in his own success he would file a caveat with the US Patent Office in November 1849 - long before he secured his US Patent No. 10,221 on 8 November, 1853. By this time the vapor-compression system of ice manufacturing was already known, but his patent featured an unusual method of applying the refrigeration in the process. One of his machines would be constructed at the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company in Cleveland, Ohio and he would produce ice for several years, even attracting financial backers for the erection of an ice-making plant inNew Orleans. Unfortunately, the Civil War would put the brakes on his plans and his machine would never be developed commercially. According to Twining himself, the war would also allow his rivals Ferdinand Carre and James Harrison (pioneers of mechanical refrigeration) to steal his ideas.
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A Circular, Regarding the Second Naturalized American to Be Sent to the Soviet Union to Face a Pending Death Sentence

Linnas, Anu, Tiina, and Epp Printed document; 14 x 8 1/2; single sheet, text to recto only; old crease line through the middle, else minor wear; in very good or better condition.Karl Linnas (1919 - 1987) was an Estonian-American, tried in absentia by the Soviet Government and sentenced to death in 1962 for allegedly serving as commandant of a Nazi concentration camp in Tartu in the early 1940s and for personally executing civilians, including small children. In the meantime, after WWII, he had spent time in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and had immigrated to the US in 1951, becoming a citizen in 1960. In 1979 he was charged by US immigration officials with providing false statements, in order to enter the US. In 1981, he was stripped of his US citizenship for having lied about his ties to the Nazis. In 1986, a federal appeals court upheld his deportation order and in April of that year, he was imprisoned, while awaiting the result of his final appeal. In 1987, he was flown to the Soviet Union, where he would die in a prison hospital in ST. Petersburg three months later. The current circular was created by his three daughters in August of 1986, while he was in prison awating deportation. It described a conspiracy between the Justice Department and the KGB to fabricate evidence and implored people to write to their senators in Karl's support and to contribute to their father's defense fund.
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Krasnaia shapochka (Little Red Riding Hood) [A Movable Book]

Anonymous First edition, n. d. (1920s); 9 x 7; pp. [10]; card stock wraps, with a chromolothograph to the front wrap, incorporating two illustrations from the story, a frame within a frame; illustrated with black-and-white lithographed drawings and four full-page chromolithographed plates with pull-tab, movable parts; small rust spots around staples; a bit of wear to edges and corners; in very good condition.According to a lengthy research by Walter Iwaskiw and Barbara Dash of the Library of Congress on this beautiful and rare edition of the classic fairy tale (as per OCLC - the only copy at an institution) - ".sometimes the circumstances surrounding the publication of a single book can lead one into an unfamiliar realm of publishing and cultural history." The first question asked was why would Orenshtein, an Ukrainian-Jewish publisher, release a book in Russian, in the town of Kolomyia, or even in Kyiv, which were under Austrian rule from 1772 until 1918. Even more puzzling, for the fact that his publishing firm, founded in 1903, was known for its high-quality, affordable Ukrainian-language books. The answer to this might have been that after Galicia was occupied by Russia, then recovered by Austria, and then reoccupied by Russia between 1914 and 1918, all Ukrainian cultural institutions were shut down and efforts were made to introduce Russian into the educational system. Or, the book was intended as a special item to be marketed among Russophiles in the area. At some point during that time, Orenshtein was arrested and exiled to Russia, ceasing publishing altogether. After the end of WWI, he reemerged in Kyiv, where he opened a bookstore. He also founded a publishing house with branches in Leipzig and Berlin and between 1919 and 1932 he would publish many literary works, dictionaries, and approximately 40 children's books. Ultimately, Orenshtein would perish in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw during WWII. The second question was who was the artist and who supplied the movable paper technology for a very-modestly-produced publication. It turned out that Sully and Kleinteich in New York had published, around the same time, an English-language edition of "Red Riding Hood" with the same four movable chromolithographs (possibly) by Ethel Dewees. Did Orenshtein obtain the plates during a trip to the US he took in 1921? Or, as was the tradition of that period to have the major publishers of American and British children's illustrated books get their color printing done in Germany, perhaps Orenshtein had acquired the plates from the same European source? (W.R. Iwaskiw and B.L. Dash, "The mystery of Yakiv Orenshtain's Little Red Riding Hood" in Slavic & East European Information Resources, vol. 11, nos. 2-3 (Apr.-Sept. 2010), p. 120-135).
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