Lot 45: KUZMIN, MIKHAIL ALEKSEEVICH.

NEZDESHNIE VECHERA [UNEARTHLY EVENINGS]. ST PETERSBURG: [IZDATEL'STVO "PETROPOLIS"], 1921 , 8VO, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS ILLUSTRATED BY MSTISLAV DOBUZHINSKI, [KILGOUR 608]

Ibid. Ekho. Stikhi [Echo. Poems]. St Petersburg: Kartonnyi domik, 1921, 12mo, original printed wrappers illustrated by Golovin, spine damaged, upper wrapper partly detached

together 2 volumes

NOTE

first editions. Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936) was a Symbolist poet, playwright and writer of prose, associated with the Acemism movement of poets, which also included Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilyov and Osip Mandelstam. Kuzmin was also the author of the first Russian homosexual novel, Kryl'ya [Wings], published in 1906.