Franklin Library: Salisbury: Russian Revolution 1905-17
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Franklin Library: Harrison Salisbury: Black Night, White Snow, Russian Revolution 1905-1917 Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Harrison Salisbury's "Black Night, White Snow; Russia's Revolution 1905-1917," illustrated by Mitchell Hooks, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1977. Bound in a Most Gorgeous burgundy Moroccan cowhide, the book has matching French moire silk endleaves, hubbed spine, satin bookmarker, 22 kt. gold gilding---in near FINE condition---except for minor shelf wear. Harrison Salisbury, who was born in 1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, became a newspaper reporter while a student at the University of Minnesota. Salisbury was later a reporter in Chicago, Washington, and New York w he was made manager of the UNITED PRESS in LONDON, ENGLAND, in 1943. He was in CAIRO, EGYPT, w the news of the Teheran Conference was breaking, and then he was sent to MOSCOW in January 1944, supposedly for six weeks but he stayed eight months, reporting on the battlefield of the UKRAINE and the CRIMEA. A journalist, writer, and editor for half a century, Pulitzer Prize winner, Salisbury, probes into RUSSIA'S deepest secrets in "Black Night, White Snow," painting descriptive portraits of CZAR NICHOLAS II and his wife EMPRESS ALEXANDRA, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England. The reader is given
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