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KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich (1872-1936). Uslovnost

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Petrograd: Polyarnaya Zvesda, 1923. 190 pp. Square 8vo (205 x 150 mm). Original lettered tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers tanned and thumbsoiled first edition. The great Russian poet discusses opera, prose, poetry and painting, concluding with an essay on Konstantin Andreevich Somov who painted his portrait. [With:] Novyi gul [The New Hull]. [Leningrad]: "Academia," 1924. 32 pp. Small 4to (150 x 115 mm). Original decorated wrappers designed by Dmitrii Isidorovich Mitrokhin. Condition: light soiling to wrappers, some chipping at fold. number 170 of 1000 copies. [And:] Forel razbivaet led. Stikhi 1925-1928 [The Trout Breaks the Ice. Verse from 1925 to 1928]. Leningrad: 1929. Original decorated wrappers. Condition: wrappers with intermittent soiling, backstrip chipped with some loss; previos owner's ink signature to title page. first edition. Considered to be Kuzmin's last great work, this poem describes one man's idealized love for another. The highly autobiographical cycle refers to Kuzmin's first great love Vsevolod Knyazev and his suicide as well as to the last great love of his life Iurii Iurkin, whom he calls "Mister Dorian" from Oscar Wilde's novel. When he read from the poem at his last public performame in 1928, Kuzmin was showered with flowers by his admirers. (3)

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