BLOK ALEXANDER (1880-1921) Otrocheskie stikhi. Avtobiografiya. [Adolescent verses. Autobiography] Moscow: Pervina, 1922. [Dust jacket 1923].

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30, [2] p., ill. Edition of 5,000 copies. Two-colour publisher's cover with a vignette. In his autobiography, the poet speaks about himself in rather restrained terms: “Ni odna iz moikh knig ne potrebovala vtorogo izdaniya. Stikhi chitayutsya malo...” ["None of my books required a second edition. Poems are read little...] A. Blok remained almost indifferent to criticism, paying attention only to the opinions of those who were closest and most authoritative to him. Bibliography: Rozanov. No. 2294; Turchinsky. P. 82.