A computer-printed samizdat of Marina Tsvetaeva's epic poetic cycle about the October Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War, An interesting illegal production of a text banned in Soviet Union and not published in Russia until 1991. One of the major texts by Russia's great poetess.
First edition of Akhmatova's last book published during her lifetime, and the most complete collection of her poems to that date, with many published here for the first time. Complete with the dust-jacket illustrated with Modigliani's portrait of the great Russian poetess.
BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
O liubvi, poezii i gosudarstvennoi sluzhbe [Dialogue About Love, Poetry and Government Service]
Very good example of this first separate edition of Blok's thoughts on a wide range of themes.
Fine book-related letter signed by Akhmatova, one of Russia's greatest poets, where she lists her recent publications in Russia, after a difficult period of hard censorship.
