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BLOK RUSSIAN POETRY CHILDREN'S BOOK

BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1880-1921). Kruglyi god. Stikhotvorenya dlya detei. [All the Year Round. Poems for Children.]

Moscow: [I. D. Sitin, 1913]. Illustrated by G. Alekseev. [33] pp., 8vo (195 x 145 mm). Decorated gray wrappers designed by G. Alekseev. Condition: minor wear to wrappers. extremely rare children's book by the great symbolist poet. A. Blok arranged this collection of 13 light verses for school children into four sections according to the seasons. He wrote one other book of verse for children Skazki (Tales, 1913) but for slightly older readers.

***186 B3-9 Lit.