My Sister-Life - Limited Editions Club - Pasternak - 109/250 - Slipcase Signed

by Boris Pasternak

$1,650 · Offered by eBay

Signed · Limited edition

Very Good condition, please see photos for condition. All pictures are of the actual book you will receive. I ship well in sturdy protective boxes, not envelopes. The acclaimed Russian born artist, Yuri Kuper, chose Aldo Crommelynck to print his etchings on Hannemule paper in Paris. For the text the H.M.P Mill in Connecticut made the paper by hand to resemble the stock produced in 1920’s Russia, even incorporating bits of Russian newspapers with the rags and cotton pulp. Gorgeous oversized book in slipcase. One volume, 16-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches Six etchings by Yuri Kuper Edition limited to two hundred fifty numbered copies (this being copy #109). Newsletter Each book signed by Yuri Kuper The binding, designed and executed by John von Isakovics, recalls the unique paper with a spine of grey Nigerian goatskin. The lined slipcase is covered in rough grey linen. 1990. When in the summer before the 1917 October Revolution Boris Pasternak wrote My Sister-Life, it aroused wild enthusiasm and established him as a genius of Russian poetry. As brilliant, is this English translation by the poet, Mark Rudman. In the original Russian the poems were strictly rhythmical and written mostly in a classical meter. Most of them rhyme. Rudman has translated them into free verse, paralleling Pasternak’s rhythm and retaining his stanzas. He created, said a reviewer, “a natural American syntax with Pasternak’s irrepressible vitality and capacity for regeneration.”

• Publisher: The Limited Editions Club
• Year: 1990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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