Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.) Akhmatova, Anna. Requiem. Illustrated by with two full-page etchings by Grisha Bruskin. Includes the CD Akhmatova Requiem by composer Sir John Tavener laid into front pocket. Large folio, 1/4 black morocco-backed cloth boards, gilt morocco lettering piece to front cover (in Cyrillic), spine gilt-lettered; housed in matching clamshell case, a few stray marks; prospectus laid in. number 90 of 300 copies and signed by Taverner and Bruskin. A moving suite of poems written by a legendary figure in modern Russian poetry in an extremely attractive presentation. (New York, 2000)