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This page is provided by The Personal Navigator. Antique and curious books, diaries, maps.        Author: Sam Coulbourn, 7 Mill Lane, Rockport, MA, 01966 USA. E-mail: persnav@shore.net.   Tel. (978) 546-7138.  Excuse this poor web publishing — nevertheless, we hope you’ll be able to find something exciting to buy! Picture at top of each page: Home of Hannah Jumper in Rockport, Massachusetts.  On July 8, 1856 Hannah led a raid of angry women and preachers, attacking pubs in the small fishing town, smashing casks and emptying bottles. Their raid ended the serving of alcohol in Rockport until 2006. ©2008. All rights reserved. Revised Sunday, June 15, 2008

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The Personal Navigator is standing by, ready to steer you in the vicinity of some fascinating bits of America’s past, or fiction, travel, ephemera, advertising items, children’s books, religious books and papers, maps. 

We’ve just refreshed our Big List of Books catalogue. That includes Fiction, Music, Poetry, Reference Religious and other such books and booklets.  Take a look!

 

How did I ever get into the business of selling books?

             I ponder that sometimes, especially when I am sitting at my computer, a few feet below ground level, in our basement.

             Fifty-one years ago I started out driving destroyers, and then submarines, around the Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black and North Seas.

             The Navy sent me to “shore duty” and it was a country few in the U.S. had heard of: Iran. When I was there (30+ years ago), it was a beautiful country, and the people were wonderful.  I learned some Farsi and we traveled all over. [Ardabil, Babolsar, Gonbad-e-Qabus, Bushehr, Khark, Khorramshahr, Chahbahar, Esfahan, Shiraz]

             I commanded a destroyer in the last days of America’s involvement in Viet Nam, 1972-73, and then commanded an ammunition ship providing bombs and bullets to the carriers and other warships in the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, during the Yom Kippur War of ‘73 and its aftermath.

             I got sent to Naples, Italy to help the Navy operate in the Mediterranean, and keep an eye on the Soviet Navy.

             I had already learned Russian at the Naval Academy, but then I was ordered to Moscow, and found myself learning much more Russian and playing cat-and-mouse with the KGB in Russia. [We visited Leningrad many times, and Arkhangelsk, Ashkhabad, Dushanbe, Odessa, Murmansk, Kiev, Riga, Talinn, Gorky, Samarkand, Stalingrad, Sochi, Tbilisi, Batumi, Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Makhachkala, Baku, Yerevan and more.]

             Then I was sent to command a naval base in Japan. I learned some Japanese, enjoyed the company of Japanese people, learned something of their culture, and we had a wonderful time traveling in that country and around Asia.

             So then, after 30 years of the Navy, I was out, retired.  I ran a leadership institute at a Boston area college for six years.

             All that was my “schooling” for the book and ephemera business. I now buy, catalogue and sell all manner of odd, interesting and weird books, newspapers, advertisements, maps… and I love it!

             See my latest discoveries at New Books.

The Personal Navigator, and Mrs. Navigator ready to greet the leaders of the Soviet Navy several years ago when we were stationed in Moscow.
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Russian Theatre Art, 1880-1930 [Khudozhniki Russkogo Teatra, 1880-1930] In Russian; Collection of Nikita and Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky [Sobraniye Nikity I Niniy Lobanovykh-Rostovskikh] Text by Bowlt, John 1991 Moscow, USSR: Izdatyel'stvo "Iskustvo"  "Russian text by John Bowlt discusses Russian theatre art from 1880 to 1930, includes excerpts from a 1984 BBC interview with N.D. Lobanov-Rostovsky. The 200 beautiful color plates in this collection are a splendid display of the Russian Avant-Garde work of the early 20th century, and includes AIZENBERG Nina,  ANISFELD Boris,  ANNENKOV, Yuri,  BAKST Lev,  BENUA Alexander, BENUA Nikolay,  BILIBIN Ivan,  BOGOMAZOV Alexander,  CHAGALL, Marc, CHEKHONIN, Sergei, CHELISHCHEV, Pavel,  DELAUNAY Sonia, DOBUZHINSKY Mstislav,  EKSTER, Alexandra, ERMOLAEVA Vera,  FEDOROVSKY, Fyodor, GAMREKELI Irakliy, GONTCHAROVA Natalia, GRIGORIEV Boris,   KALMAKOV Nikolay, KHODASEVITCH, Valentina, KHVOSTENKO-KHVOSTOV, Aleksandr, KISILEV Victor, KORBUT, Yevgeniy,  KUL'BIN Nikolay,  LAPIN Lev, LARIONOV Mikhail,  KHODASEVICH, Valentina, LENTULOV Aristarkh,  LISSITZKY L., MALEVICH Kazimir,  MELLER Vadim,  MUKHINA Vera,  PETRITSKY, Anatoly,  POPOVA, Lyubov, PUNI, Ivan,   RERIKH, Nikolai,  ROZANOVA,Olga, SASHIN, Andrei, SEREBRYAKOV, Aleksandr, SEROV, Valentin,  STELLETSKY, Dmitry, STENBERG,Vladimir, STEPANOVA, Varvara, SUDEIKIN, Sergei,  TATLIN, Vladimir,   VESNIN Alexander, VRUBEL Mikhail, VIALOV Konstantine, YAKULOV, Georgy, YAKUNINA, Elizavyeta,  ZDANEVICH Ilya, ZDANEVICH Kiril, and many more. " 112 pp + 200 color plates. 23 x 29.5 cm. Red cloth on board with gilt lettering, front inside hinge slightly cracked, very clean, very good. Dustjacket several tiny chips, good. (7729) $95.00. History/Art

RussianTheatre Art, 1880-1930  [in Russian]

Includes Beautiful collection of Avant-Garde Art

Costume for a lady with a fan for La Dama Duende staged in Moscow in 1924. Ink and watercolor on paper by A. Exter.