1968 Russian Porcelains by Marvin Ross (Lubov Stowell Ex Libris) 1st Edition. 2008 The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman 1st Edition.

 

1. Russian Porcelains by Marvin Ross

 

Lubov Stowell Ex libris

 

Lubov Stowell (1912 - 1987), who worked for the Library of Congress for 25 years before retiring in 1975 as a senior research analyst, lived in the Washington area since 1935, was a native of Russia. She came to this country in 1922 and lived in New York City before moving here. She had sung professionally both here and in New York City.

Lubov was the wife of Prince Dimitri Wolkonsky.

 

 

Russian Porcelains the Gardner, Iusupov, Batenin, Novyi, Popov, Kudinov, Sipiagin, Fomin, Safronov, Kiselev, Kornilov, Gulin, Khrapunov-Novyi, Sabanin, Miklashevskii, Guzhev, Ikonnikov, and Kuznetsov Factories.

 

The Collections of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood, Washington, DC. With a Foreword by Marjorie Merriweather Post.  

A beautiful book on the renowned collections of Mrs. Post, one of the most important collections of Russian porcelain assembled in the United States. She became interested in the subject when her husband Joseph E. Davies was second ambassador to Russian under Joseph Stalin. They both lived in Russia from 1936-1938. They obtained the objects from Soviet authorities when Stalin began selling treasures seized from the Romanov family, after the Russian revolution, to earn hard currency for its industrialization and military armament programs.

 

 

Product details

 

Hardcover: 427 pages, illustrated

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Oklahoma City (1968); 1st edition

Language: English

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket slight wear on the top left corner.

 

 

 

2. The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman

 

Series: Leaphorn & Chee (Book 18)

 

 

Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed, and now the friend who brought it to Leaphorn's attention has mysteriously gone missing.

With newly wedded officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito just back from their honeymoon, the legendary ex-lawman is on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he'd once thought impossible to untangle. And they're leading him back into a world of lethal greed, shifting truths, and changing faces, where a cold-blooded killer still resides.

 

 

Product details

 

Paperback: 322 pages

Publisher: Harper Collins (2008); 1st edition   

Language: English

Condition: Like New

 

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