Lot 1028: KUZMIN, MIKHAIL ALEKSEEVICH. 1872-1936.- Aleksandriiskiya pesni [Alexandrian songs]. [Petersburg]: Prometei, 1921.

Aleksandriiskiya pesni [Alexandrian songs]. [Petersburg]: Prometei, 1921. Small 4to. 71, [7] pp. Original printed wrappers, housed in a custom slip-case. Paper evenly toned, wrappers with some soiling and some light scattered spots, minor paper repair to head of spine, upper corner slightly frayed. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION , originally published in 1908 as part of Kuzmin's Nets . A collection of love poems, primarily homoerotic, regarded as the first significant cycle of free verse to be written in the Russian language.