BITOV ANDREI (1937-2018), AUTOGRAPH Bolshoi shar [The Big Ball]. Moscow; Leningrad: Sovetsky Pisatel, 1963. - 215 pp.: ill.; 17x13.5 cm.

Illustrations by M.A. Kulakov. In publisher's binding, with illustrated dust jacket. In good condition. Rubbing, tears, and losses to the dust jacket. Author's autograph on the front flyleaf: "To Sergei Krikoryan - friend of Kati - with friendship, A. Bitov / 28.2.04 Devon." Sergei Nersesovich Krikoryan (1925-2015) - an engineer-economist, son of a White Army officer who emigrated from Russia at the end of the Civil War. Since the early 1960s, he resided in Switzerland and was a member of the Russian Circle at the University of Geneva. He actively followed the literary process, never missing an opportunity to meet with writers who had left their homeland or visited from the Soviet Union. A bibliophile, he amassed an extensive library. This is the author's first separate book. Andrei Georgievich Bitov (1937-2018) - a Russian Soviet writer, poet, screenwriter, and educator. One of the founders of postmodernism in Russian literature. One of the creators of the uncensored almanac "Metropol." Bibliography: Okhlopkov. P. 28.