Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet

First printing. 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. xv/619 pages. "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.".