Koshevnikoff (Vladimir) Entr’acte.
£125
First UK edition. Translated by Denys Oglander.
London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1936.
Striking 3 tone Modernist jacket design including naive cursive lettering.
Elisabeth Arsenieff, a young girl belonging to an impoverished family in Berlin, misses by chance the opportunity of marrying the man she really loves, and marries instead one who helps her to a triumphant career as a pianist. Long afterwards, too late, she meets the first man again, and sees her whole life as ” nothing but an entr’acte between two concerts.”
Uncommon in jacket.
Out of stock
NF/VG – wrapper has a small section of loss at intersection of spine base and front panel, foxing to front panel, not price clipped.
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