A Ring Has No End - By Thomas Armstrong

 Hardcover, first published 1958 by Cassell & Company. The unclipped card jacket is whole, but worn on the extremities with several chips and small tears, and some scratches to the faces. The spine is sunned and there is a small stain on the front. The reverse has two small pieces of tape pasted over tears. The boards are clean and unmarked, but the spine is sunned and slightly cocked, with a crease down the length. The first end paper has the neatly written names of two previous owners in pen on it, otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked. From the jacket blurb: 

 " The blood-bath of the Russian Revolution has been the subject of many books, but never before has the destruction of the flamboyant aristocracy of Tsarist Russia been so vividly recreated as in this tempestuous story of the rise and fall of the great House of Kaivanov. Their princely title went back to the year 1774 when the enthusiasm of the Ataman Guchkor Kaivanov for the breaking wheel, the gallows and the gibbet had done much to crush Pugavchev's rebellion. For this service to that most august sovereign, Catherine II, the Kaivanov's received title to far-flung lands, a draft for two million roubles and the favours in perpetuity of the Imperial House of Romanov."