Riaboff alexander (15 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First US Edition.

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. B Russia: This hardcover of 184 pages, maps on endpapers. Fine in afine dj. White spine red title.

Hardcover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. closed tear to dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. VG/VG, 1st edn, ex library copy, photos, 183pps.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. Edited by Von Hardesty. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Smithsonian Institution Press 1986, first edition. Hardback in good condition; slight bowing to covers, owner's name on first free endpaper. Dust jacket is in good condition with soiling, wear to top edge & a tear at top near spine. 6.25 x 9.25 in., 183 pp. Laid in is a one-page note, handwritten from Alice Riaboff, Alexander's wife. It describes an editor's choice to shorten a portion of the book and is signed "Alice". Signed.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Gatchina Days: Reminiscences of a Russian Pilot by Alexander Riaboff. Hardcover published in 1986 by Smithsonian Institution Press. 1/2 inch tear on front panel of jacket with light soiling on the back panel.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. Presumed first edition/first printing. 183, [1] pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Occasional footnotes. Maps. Bibliography. DJ has slight wear Alexander Riaboff (1895-1984) who served in the Russian Army Air Service and was trained at Gatchina. After the Revolution, Riaboff flew in the Red Air Fleet and also with the counterrevolutionary White forces before fleeing in 1920 to Harbin, China. Later, he emigrated with his wife and daughter to the United States and settled in the San Francisco area. Years later, Riaboff wrote up his adventures as a pilot during those tumultuous times, and as edited by National Air and Space Museum curator Von Hardesty, they were published in 1986 as Gatchina Days: Reminiscences of a Russian Pilot. Von Hardesty is currently a curator in the Division of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He has edited or written a number of books, including Gatchina Days; and Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941-1945 The author recounts his experiences in the Revolution and explains why he left the Bolsheviks and eventually emigrated to the U.S. In 1910, one of the first airfields in Russia was established in Gatchina, with the city becoming one of the first centers of aviation and engine technology in Russia. The pilot Pyotr Nesterov was trained at the Gatchina airfield and made his first long-distance flight from Gatchina to Kiev. The outbreak of the Russian Civil War saw Gatchina loyal to the White Movement.…

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hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condición: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.91.

1st edition dust jacket New Book octavo 183pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., Author joined the Imperial Russian Air Force on the eve of the Revolution & flew for the Whites in Siberia.