Roberta Reeder
Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet.
St. Martin's Press, 1994. First printing. 0312112416 xv/619 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 10", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter yellow cloth and green paper-covered boards, with blind-stamped pictorial design replicating Modigliani drawing of Akhmatova. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"A definitive biography, ten years in the making, of Russia's greatest twentieth-century woman poet recounts her aristocratic childhood in St. Petersburg, her reputation for clairvoyance, her influential innovations in the art of poetry, her abuse by Stalin, and more."