Two contemporary signatures on front inside page

Translated into English by various hands & edited by C M Bowra. Name on front paste down. Contributions from Pushkin, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Blok, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Ivanov, Esenin, etc. A very good copy in a slightly frayed clipped dust jacket.

From DJ front flap
"An anthology of the best Russian poems in good English translations has long been needed, and this book is an attempt to supply the need. It contains 156 lyrical poems and covers 27 authors from Pushkin to Mayakovsky. It contains pieces which are familiar to all educated Russians but are hardly known in English, and have in some cases never been translated before. The translators include Maurice Baring, Oliver Elton, J.S. Phillimore and the editor. The choice of pieces aims both at being representative of the best Russian poetry and at giving translations which are not only as faithful as they can be but convey the spirit and the metres of the originals. Russian peotry is not well known in England, and it is hoped that this book will make more familiar authors who in their own country are regarded at at least eh peers of the great novelists."