Author: NELIDOVA-FIVESKAYA, L. Title: S chuzhikh beregov.
Description: Southbury, Conn., Alatas, (1940?). Original wrappers. 104 p. With a portrait of the author. In Russian. Book block loose. Some creasing and foxing. Stamp on first page. "From a Strange Shore", the second book of poems by Lidiya Nelidova-Fiveskaya, who had arrived in the USA (1922) as a ballet dancer from Russia. She had been a member of the Ballets Russes. It was published in the Russian artists' colony in Southbury, where the publishing firm Alatas had been founded by George Grebenstchikov. With a section after the opera of Rachmaninov, 'Aleko', referring to Fyodor Shalyapin. Nice wrappers.
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Price: EUR 25.00 = appr. US$ 27.17 Seller: Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - Paulbooks
- Book number: 270486
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