NELIDOVA-FIVESKAYA, L. — S chuzhikh beregov.

Southbury, Conn., Alatas, (1940?). Original wrappers. 104 p. With a portrait of the author. In Russian. Book block loose. Some creasing and foxing. Stamp on first page. "From a Strange Shore", the second book of poems by Lidiya Nelidova-Fiveskaya, who had arrived in the USA (1922) as a ballet dancer from Russia. She had been a member of the Ballets Russes. It was published in the Russian artists' colony in Southbury, where the publishing firm Alatas had been founded by George Grebenstchikov. With a section after the opera of Rachmaninov, 'Aleko', referring to Fyodor Shalyapin. Nice wrappers.