First book edition

BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich

O liubvi, poezii i gosudarstvennoi sluzhbe

[Dialogue About Love, Poetry and Government Service]

Publication: Otto Elsner for Skify, Berlin, 1920.

BLOK, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, O liubvi, poezii i gosudarstvennoi sluzhbe

Very good example of this first separate edition of Blok’s thoughts on a wide range of themes.

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£125

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Our Notes & References

Pleasant example of this uncommon work, which grew out of the play ‘The King on the Square’ (1907) and first appeared the same year in the magazine ‘Pereval’: this is the first separate edition. The work reflects Blok’s personal crisis, as well as his observations on the Russian society and the 1905 Revolution.

Item number

981

 

Physical Description

Small 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm). 18 pp. incl. titles in German and Russian, [2] pp.

Binding

Original publisher’s wrappers, stapled as issued.

Condition

Paper a bit browned, the odd pencil mark; original staples rusting, as a result block loose, minor creases to edges.

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