Pasternak, Boris - Kupreyanov, Nikolai - Book "Zverinets" 1929 _more English concert pianist (1916-2005)

English concert pianist (1916-2005)

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American actor (1917-2008)

Pasternak, Boris - Kupreyanov, Nikolai - Book "Zverinets" 1929 _more English concert pianist (1916-2005)Original 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.