Pasternak, Boris - Kupreyanov, Nikolai - Book "Zverinets" 1929 Autographs Film Actors Bonci was a famous competitor

Bonci was a famous competitor of star tenor Enrico Caruso

An excellent gift with lots of very interesting illustrations about Richard Wagner´s life and his operas

sent to Dolan a month after Toscanini´s death in January 1957

Arthur Shattuck

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Pasternak, Boris - Kupreyanov, Nikolai - Book "Zverinets" 1929 Autographs Film Actors Bonci was a famous competitorOriginal childrens book by Boris Pasternak (1890 1960) with illustrations by Nikolai Kupreyanov (1894 1933), published in Moscow, 1929, 16 pages, original color lithographed wrappers, 7 x 8. 5 inches. Very rare childrens book by the author of "Doctor Zhivago", long before he wrote his Nobel Prize winning novel. Pasternak was already known as one of Russias greatest poets, and wrote only 2 books for children, both after the birth of his first child.