Condition Continued: The slipcase appears to be in near-perfect condition. I don't see any wear that needs to be called out. It is very solidly produced. It is also perfectly clean. Take a look at the photos. 

Arkaim, 2008. Hardcover in Slipcase. In Russian. As I do not speak any Russian, this will be a hard book to describe accurately. I've done some Google translating. I don't see this book on any of the English book sites. However, I found it on some Russian book sites. It appears to me that the sellers are all  'out of stock.' Check that for yourself.

There are 224 pages. The photographer is Vadim Evgenievich Gippenreiter. You can read a little bit about the book and him from some quotes I found, translated, copied, and pasted below.

'The book contains the work of the photographer Vadim Gippenreiter. Vadim Evgenievich Gippenreiter is often called the "great photographer of the Russian land." World-famous landscape photographer, legendary personality. Even before the Second World War, he was known as the first person to ski down Elbrus. Hippenreiter (I guess that's interchangeable with Gippenreiter) was the first to start creating author's photo albums in the USSR. In Soviet times, he released about thirty photo albums dedicated to Russian nature: from active volcanoes of Kamchatka to Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Today, the 87-year-old photographer is cheerful, full of strength and interest in life. 

He is subject to the fact that few people succeed: to keep the elusive beauty of wildlife, to stop the moment. Energetic, easy-going, fanatically devoted to his favorite places, he "writes" on tape the old Russian cities, the sad nature of the middle strip, fantastic inaccessible areas of Kamchatka and the Urals. Removes Hippenreiter in solitude. Comes, compressed with nature. From Yakutia to the deserts of Central Asia, from Kamchatka to Karelia, the artist's routes ran. The master has literally traveled the whole country. He captured many reserved corners in the 1960-90s - with a 13x18 cm wooden camera. Hippenreiter traveled around the city and the mountains at that time, taking pictures of nature reserves and architectural monuments with equal enthusiasm. A respectable age did not force the master to retire - he still travels, and the camera is always with him.'

From another individual: 'Only the transmission of mood, state of nature, according to Hippenreiter, elevates photography to the rank of art. Having glanced at his album, you will be transported to the Russian forest with its unique charm, which is not lost at any time of the year, and you will feel a piece of the spiritual joy that the Master once experienced.'