This book should appeal mainly to Russian librarians and scholars. Most of the book lists the various holdings of Romanov and Imperial Palace library materials in the holdings of the New York Public Library. The compilation is by Personage (alphabetically from Emperor Alexander I to Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich, who has the greatest number of listings); then by Palaces and finally by The Fekula Donation, Summer, 1998. The listings are amply cross indexed by 1. Name and Title, 2. Places of Publication, 3. Publishers. 4.Date of Publication and finally, 5. Subject. There are only 10 illustrations of which 3 are in color. Annotations are minimal and confined mainly to descriptions of bindings and signatures without any consideration as to the importance of any particular book. One must have a working knowledge of Russian to understand most of the titles in the checklist as they are transliterated from the original Russian. The 47 page introduction by Robert H. Davis, Jr. and Edward Kasinec is fascinating as it tells how the books found their way out of Russia especially during the Soviet era. Only a man of such experience as Mr. Kasinec could write such an important essay. This is not a coffee table book.