This is Poland (43)

This is Poland. Softcover book published by Interpress Publishers Warsaw 1972, 216 pages with colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. All text is in English.

Damning the Vistula

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro (6).

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro. Hardcover book published by MP 1978. Text is in Russian and English.

The Kirovskaya Station

The Kirovskaya Station

Great Leader Chairman Mao will live forever in our hearts (10).

Great Leader Chairman Mao will live forever in our hearts. Paperback booklet published by Joint Publishing Co. (Hongkong Branch) 1976.

Chairman Mao speaking at a reception held by the Party Central Committee in honour of the labour heroes in the Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border region in 1943.

Ceskoslovenska mesta (20)

Ceskoslovenska mesta (Czechoslovak Towns) by Jiri Hruza. Hardcover book published by Olympia Praha 1976, 211 pages with black and white and colour photographs.

KLADNO

KOSICE

USTI NAD LABEM

China Travel: Guangzhou and Foshan (25)

China Travel: Guangzhou and Foshan, compiled by China International Travel Service, Guangzhou Branch and Editorial Department of the Guangdong People's Publishing House. Paperback book published by Guangdong People's Publishing House 1977, 112 pages. All text is in English.

The Chinese Export Commodities Fair, where China's import and export corporations discuss business with foreign trade agents.

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia) (27)

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia). Hardcover book published by Riga Avots 1985, 215 pages with colour photographs throughout.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (12).

Bosnia and Herzegovina, text by Alojz Benac and Ivan Lovenovic. Hardcover book published by Sour “Svjetlost” Jugoslovenska Revija 1986.

First class tobacco is successfully grown in Herzegovina. The hard and patient labour which the cultivation of this plant demands produces a very rich crop,

There is a long tradition of bee keeping in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the flowering fields and meadows of which provide the hives with an abundant supply of ingredients for the production of delicious and aromatic honey.

Sputnik 11: Digest of Soviet Press, November 1978 (10).

Sputnik 11: Digest of Soviet Press, November 1978. Paperback magazine/booklet published by Novosti Press Agency 1978. All text is in English.

A poster devoted to the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution, published in 1922.

Harm into Benefit: Taming the Haiho River (4)

Harm into Benefit: Taming the Haiho River by Ho Chin.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press 1975, 79 pages. All text is in English.

River-tamers heading for the site.

Yugoslavia: An Art-Book (4)

Yugoslavia: An Art-Book, photographs by Otto Siegner. Hardcover book published by Verlag Ludwig Simon, Munchen – Pullach (no date, 1950s?), 239 pages with black and white photographs, text is in English.

The Save river lowland near the highway (in the background) from Zagreb to Belgrade

Reaping of wheat; in many places even nowadays this is done with sickles

Landscape near Skoplje with the 8155 ft Ljubotin mountain

Viet-Nam (28)

Viet-Nam, text by Nikolai Solntsev, photography by Victor Guinsbourg, Albert Lieberman, Evgueni Lomovski. Hardover book published by Editions Paneta Moscou and Editions Van Hoa Hanoi 1986. All text is in French.

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro (5).

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro. Hardcover book published by MP 1978. Text is in Russian and English.

The Park of Culture Station

Ceskoslovenska mesta (19)

Ceskoslovenska mesta (Czechoslovak Towns) by Jiri Hruza. Hardcover book published by Olympia Praha 1976, 211 pages with black and white and colour photographs.

BRNO

CESKE BUDEJOVICE

GOTTWALDOV

China Travel: Guangzhou and Foshan (24)

China Travel: Guangzhou and Foshan, compiled by China International Travel Service, Guangzhou Branch and Editorial Department of the Guangdong People's Publishing House. Paperback book published by Guangdong People's Publishing House 1977, 112 pages. All text is in English.

Binjiang Road – one of the residential areas of the former boat people.

Miserable plight of the boat people before liberation.

The Binjiang Road No.4 Primary School – 80 per cent of its pupils are children of former boat people.

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia) (26)

Podomju Latvija (Soviet Latvia). Hardcover book published by Riga Avots 1985, 215 pages with colour photographs throughout.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (11).

Bosnia and Herzegovina, text by Alojz Benac and Ivan Lovenovic. Hardcover book published by Sour “Svjetlost” Jugoslovenska Revija 1986.

Despite exceptionally rapid industrialisation, which has bought with it all the problems connected with protecting man's environment, in Bosnia and Herzegovina there are still many regions where nature remains unspoilt, mountainous districts untouched beauty, rivers and lakes abounding in fish.

Food production is one of the principal area of economic development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is being achieved by the modernisation and intensification of agricultural production and livestock raising. Om the picture: combine harvesters in the vicinity of Bijeljina.

Sputnik 11: Digest of Soviet Press, November 1978 (9).

Sputnik 11: Digest of Soviet Press, November 1978. Paperback magazine/booklet published by Novosti Press Agency 1978. All text is in English.

The co-op winter garden.

Celebration of a woman co-op member's 50^th birthday in the co-op board office.

The younger generation dance their ancestors' dances.

Two year old Veiko with his mother.

New China (34)

New China. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1953, unpaginated with black and white photographs. All text is in English.

Tea groves in Hangchow, Chekiang Province. The first to plant tea, China is the greatest tea producing country in the world. In 1952 China harvested 21.8 per cent more tea than in 1950

Peasant women collect mulberry leaves to feed silkworms.

We – Internationalists (3)

We – Internationalists. 24 loose cards in folder, published 1988 with colour photographs and illustrations. All text is Russian. (Book is related to the Soviet Afghan war, December 1979 to February 1989). Loaned from one of my favourite bookshops, Mount of Alex in Castlemaine, Victoria. www.instagram.com/mountofalex/

Harm into Benefit: Taming the Haiho River (3)

Harm into Benefit: Taming the Haiho River by Ho Chin. Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press 1975, 79 pages. All text is in English.

Dredger at work opening a new outlet to the sea.

Hsienhsien key project on the New Tzuya River.

The New Tzuya main project across South Canal.

Headgate on the Tuliu Diversion Canal. 

Yugoslavia: An Art-Book (3)

Yugoslavia: An Art-Book, photographs by Otto Siegner. Hardcover book published by Verlag Ludwig Simon, Munchen – Pullach (no date, 1950s?), 239 pages with black and white photographs, text is in English.

It is a colourul picture on market days when the farmers …

… from the surrounding villages come to town in their buggies

Viet-Nam (27)

Viet-Nam, text by Nikolai Solntsev, photography by Victor Guinsbourg, Albert Lieberman, Evgueni Lomovski. Hardover book published by Editions Paneta Moscou and Editions Van Hoa Hanoi 1986. All text is in French.

Magyarorszag (14)

Magyarorszag. Hardcover book with pictorial boards published by Corvina 1972. All text is in Hungarian.

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro (4).

Moscow Metro, Le Metro de Moscau, Die Moskauer Metro. Hardcover book published by MP 1978. Text is in Russian and English.

The Krasnosselskaya Station

The Krasnosselskaya Station

The Krasnosselskaya Station