Craig Raine — The Electrification of the Soviet Union
London, Faber and Faber, 1986 . First edition. Leather. A signed limited edition of the first edition of Craig Raine's libretto to Nigel Osborne's opera based on the works of Boris Pasternak, in a handsome quarter morocco binding. A limited edition, first editon work. Signed by the author to the title page and numbered 61 of 100 copies produced. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The Electrification of the Soviet Union was an opera in two acts by Nigel Osborne. The libretto - present here - was written by Craig Raine and based on The Last Summer and Spectorsky, two semi-autobiographical works by Boris Pasternak who appears as a narrator in the opera. In the publisher's original morocco backed boards. In the publisher's original morocco backed cloth covered boards. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .
