ANNENKOV, Yury Pavlovich (Russian 1889-1974), DNEVNIK MOIKH VSTRECH. TSIKL TRAGEDIY [A Journal of My Meetings. Cycle of Tragedies] (New York: Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1966). 8vo (240 x 163 mm). 350 pages (both volumes). Front free endpaper of volume II featuring author`s gifting inscription with his signature and date. The inscription in Cyrillic reads: To my dear Matilda Aleksandrovna and Vladimir Osipovich Gessen. In remembrance of our meeting in Paris, with friendly regards. Dated 1967 Paris.

This lot also includes a PHOTOGRAPH of Yury Annenkov (140 x 87 mm), probably from the 1920s.

PROVENANCE
From the library of Vladimir Gessen

LOT NOTES
GESSEN, Vladimir Iosifovich (Russian, 1901-1982) was a journalist and a publicist. He immigrated to Finland in 1919, then moved to Germany and then to France. After relocating to the U. S. in 1946 he spent many years working as a part of the editorial board of the newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo