Contemporary inscription - Shirley Grepe 1946, Sticker "Shirley with love JP Sare"

1944. Faber and Faber. Co-written & translated with ESTHER POLIANOWSKY SALAMAN. (Pushkin, Akhmatova, etc). Bkplt & name on front end paper. A very good copy in a very slightly frayed dust jacket.

Poems by Pushkin, Koltson, Lemontove,, Nekrason, Tyutchev, Fet, Maykov, Tolstoy, Balmont, Akhmatova, Blok with autobiographical notes.

Front jacket:
"Many of these sensitive translations, into English verse, of short poems by the best known Russian poets, old and new, have appeared in The New Statesman and elsewhere. They have been collected and are here published in book form for the sake of that large contemporary public which has become aware of Russian greatness and is seeking for some introduction to Russian literature."

Wikipedia:
"Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her Christian name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC". Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank"."