Sovetsky pisatel

The first edition, of which there were no large paper copies.
Publisher's grey cloth binding, lacking DJ with a drawing by Modigliani.
An exceptional autograph inscription signed in Russian and dated by Akhmatova on the half-title: “to David Carver, another reminder of the pines of Komarovo, Anna Akhmatova 23 February 1966”.
Single stain to upper cover, the spine slightly sunned, otherwise a very good copy.
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, known as Anna Akhmatova, was without doubt the greatest of the Russian female poets and occupies a place beside Pushkin in the Slavic pantheon, from whom she inherited her evocative force “across time, schools and literary styles”, as well as fame.