King Stork and King Log: A Study of Modern Russia (2 vols)

2 vols. 233pp, 201pp plus publisher's adverts in both volumes. Bound in decorated black cloth (some mild marks). Rubbed at edges & cloth frayed and chipped at head and heal of backstrip. Lower portion of backstrip on volume 2 is partially detached. Replacement endpapers in both volumes. Bastard title page in both volumes has stamp indicating the books have been withdrawn from the Guille-Alles Library (Guernsey), and the library's label appears on the back cover of each volume (but no lending inserts). Volume One has a printed bookplate on the pdep indicating the books once belonged to one L S Coomer. Internally neat and clean with some very mild spotting. Seminal study of 19th century Russia in which a revolutionary populist focuses on seamier sides of Russian life such as administrative exile and imprisonment. Chapter 13 discusses massacres in Yakutsk, and the Kara tragedy. Includes quotations from official documents.