I’m not sure that I’ve found the best way to acquire books by that author. To be honest, I did not spend that much time investigating the possible sources. But I did manage to contact the author and figure out a payment method.

I will share my findings, but if anyone knows easier/better source please add it to this thread.

Mr. Adrianov pointed me to this site for the description of his works: http://www.coins.su/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20474

“Russian coins 1700-2000” is 2000 rub
“Coins of Soviet and Modern Russia” is 1500 rub
“Russian Silver coinage 1832-1858” is 1800 rub

In my case, ground shipping charge for all 3 books was 350 rub.

You can contact the author through the forum or numizmatsssr@rambler.ru . He will tell you to send the money through Contact system. This is what he is talking about:
http://www.contact-sys.com/eng/transfer/howsend.html

Here you may be able to find a location near you from which you can send the cash:
http://www.contact-sys.com/eng/transfer/from.html

If sending money through Contact, you will need to specify the recipient’s full name, and receiving bank’s address:
Name: Jaroslaff Vladilenovich Adrianov
Bank: Kama-Bank
City: Perm
Street: Lenin Str
Building #: 46

You will also need to supply your own full name and address.

Once you’ve completed the payment, you will get a receipt with a PIN number. You will need to send that PIN to Mr. Adrianov, along with your name and address as they appear on the receipt.

Note: Contact is operated by RusSlavBank, and that’s what appeared on my receipt as destination bank instead of Kama-Bank.

I did not receive the books yet, but I hope everything goes well.

Thanks, Alex! It should also be mentioned that his works are written in Russian -- at least the catalog I have, "Russian coins 1700-2000", is only in Russian. I don't know about the other works, though.

As to prices, it may be possible to find "Russian coins 1700-2000" cheaper ... I recently won mine on eBay for $35, for example (about $50 with shipping to Switzerland). But the edition is limited to 1,000, and I think the prices should reflect that.

I was used to not having competition for book sales so I bid low on that one

So did I ... my maximum bid was $35! But I got there first.

I was also bidding on that one - $31.
I heard that the new edition is coming soon.

I hear he's still working on it, so soon might be a year or more?

I decided not to wait.

Igor, do you mean a new edition of "Russian coins 1700-2000", or of one of the other books?

He posted on coins.su that he is working on 1700 -1917 catalog. He is collecting information on overdates right now, so I imagine that this catalog will not come out this year, that's just my impression though.

Thank you for this information. Your conclusion seems like a reasonable one.

Just got my books from Mr. Adrianov! They made it from Russia to Colorado in under 2 weeks!

I haven’t had much time to review them but my overall impression is very positive. Mr. Adrianov had inserted the latest errata addendum pages into all catalogs.

Interesting to note that the Russian coins 1700-2000 was published in 2001, and is a great illustration of the recent price hike that swept through the Russian coin market. The 1913 Romanoff rouble is listed to be worth 25-35 US in XF. Now in XF it’s like 150! I can’t even remember buying anything worthwhile for under 30 dollars this last year.