BLOK, Aleksander Aleksandrovich (1880-1921). Snezhnaya noch [Snowy...

BLOK, Aleksander Aleksandrovich (1880-1921). Snezhnaya noch [Snowy Night]. [Sobranie Stikhotvoreniy, vol. 3]. Moscow: Musaget, 1916.

First edition, presentation copy to Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold (1874 - 1940), the great innovative theatre director and producer who staged Blok’s work. This copy is described in Lev Glezer’s Reminiscences of a Russian Antiquarian Bookseller, 2001, p.170, as belonging in the Meyerhold archives acquired en bloc by Glezer. Celebrated as a seminal force in modern international theatre, Meyerhold was executed during the Great Purge in 1940.

Octavo (235 x 150mm). Title printed in blue and black (some stains in inner margins deriving from tape now removed). Original wrappers printed in blue and black (spine and extremities with small repairs, somewhat soiled); in a quarter morocco box. Provenance: Aleksander Aleksandrovich Blok (inscription to:) - Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold (1874 - 1940).