Small 8 vo, publisher´s covers. 500 copies printed not for commercial distribution in one of the best Leningrad presses.Better durable paper. Very good.
First book by Ida Nappel´baum, sister of poet Ida Nappel´baum, and daughter of famous professional photographer Moisei Nappel`baum. Ida Nappel´baum was also a photographer. She assisted her father at his workshop and made a number of brilliant photographs on her own as well. She was a pupil of Nikolai Gumilev and met on many occasions Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Kuzmin, Vsevolod Rozhdestvenskii among other prominent literati.
See: Nappel´baum, Ida Ugol Otrazheniia. Kratkie Vstrechi Dolgoi Zhizni.[ Afterword by Valerii Sazhin ] St. Petersburg, Retro, 2004 |