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KUZMIN MIKHAIL (1875-1936) Seti: Pervaia kniga stikhov. [Seti: First Book of Poems.] Moscow: Scorpion, 1908.

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[4], 222, [2] pp.; 21.5x15 cm. Editioin 1,600 copies. In ownership’s cloth binding. Very good condition. Minor wear to binding. First edition of the first book of poems by the Silver Age poet and playwright Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (1875-1936). The second edition of the collection, printed in 1915, was published with extensive deletions made by military censors. Bibliography: Okhlopkov. P. 99; Rozanov. No. 3125; Turchinsky. P. 280.


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