Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (1867-1942)
17 signed poems. 1936
Collection of 17 typescript poems signed (‘K. Balmont’), 14 August – 6 December 1936.

In Russian. Carbon copies (in purple or black ink), individually signed, on 17 leaves, approx. 267 x 208mm and 204 x 117mm.

Signed poems from 1936. The poems comprise:

‘Krugi’ (‘Circles’), 14 August 1936
‘Glubokaya Ten’ (‘Deep shadow’), 25 August 1936
‘Po Krayam’’ (Around the edges’), 1 September 1936, and ‘Vol'nyy’ (‘Free’), 29 August 1936, on a single leaf
‘Veresk’ (‘Heather’) and ‘Evkaliptovaya svecha’ (‘Eucalyptus candle’: title crossed through), both 4 September 1936 (only the first signed)
‘Ledokhod' (‘Ice drift’), 8 September 1936
‘Kaplya’ (‘A drop’), 15 September 1936, on two leaves
‘Rodnoy’ (‘Native’), 13 October 1936
‘Zabrosat' tebya’ (‘Throw you’), 13 October 1936
‘Siren’ (‘Lilac’), 16 October 1936
‘Yunymi devushkami’ (‘To young girls’), 30 October 1936
‘V sineva mechty’ (‘Into the blue of a dream’), 9-10 November 1936
‘Devushka -molniya’ (‘Girl-lightning’), 11 November 1936
‘Zadymlonnyy dal' (‘Smoky distance’), 21 November 1936
‘Solntse poyushcheye’ (‘Singing sun’), 5 December 1936, on two leaves.
‘Umirotvoreniye’ (‘Appeasement’), 6 December 1936.

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