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THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)

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THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS 1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934)
1) GORODETSKIY, S.M. (1884–1967) Tsvetushchiy posokh: verenitsa vos’mistishiy ['The Flowering Staff: a Sequence of Octets']. [St Petersburg]: Gryadushchiy den’, [1914]. — 142 pp.; 20.5 × 14.5 cm. Limited to 2200 copies. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers designed by V. Levitskiy. Frontispiece with profile silhouette of a nymph (Anna Alekseevna Gorodetskaya, née Kozel’skaya, the poet’s wife, actress and poet, writing under the pseudonym ‘Nimfa Bel-kon’-Lyubomirskaya’). Good condition. Staining and foxing to the wrappers, tears along the spine, wrappers detached. A contemporary dedicatory inscription on the first flyleaf: ‘Gostepriimnoy khozyayke, mnogouvazhaemoy Elizavete Gavrilovne v den’ poslednego sobraniya 19 24/IV 19 [podpis’ nerazb.]’. Turchinskiy, p. 146. 2) BLOK, A. (1880–1921) Dvenadtsat’; Skify ['The Twelve; The Scythians']; preface by Ivanov-Razumnik ‘Ispytanie v groze i bure’. Berlin: Skify, 1920. — 67 pp.; 20 × 13.5 cm. Title page in Russian and German. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Minor soiling. Including Blok’s poems ‘Skify’ and ‘Dvenadtsat’’, together with Ivanov-Razumnik’s essay on the birth of a new world through revolution. First edition published abroad. Turchinskiy, p. 63; Lesman, no. 332; Rozanov, no. 2272. 3) BELYY, A. (1880–1934) Stikhotvoreniya ['Poems']. Berlin; Petrograd: Izd. Grzhebina, 1923. — 508 pp.; 20 × 13.5 cm. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Soiling and foxing to the wrappers and text block, small tears to the spine, text block sound, ownership inscription on the spine. Turchinskiy, p. 69; Rozanov, no. 2219; Lesman, no. 264.