BLOK ALEXANDER (1880-1921) Nochnye chasy: Chetvertyy sbornik stikhov [Night Hours: The Fourth Collection of Poems] (1908-1910). Moscow: Kn-vo "Musaget," 1911.

141, [3] p. Edition of 1000 copies. Publisher's typographic cover. Wear on the cover, partially erased owner's inscription and stamp on the half-title. One of the darkest yet highly popular collections by the poet. K. Chukovsky recalled that once, V. Mayakovsky read the entire collection to him during a walk in Kuokkala, precisely in the order the poems were arranged. L. Andreev also knew all his poems by heart. Bibliography: Lesman No. 310; Rozanov No. 2265; Turchinsky. P. 81.