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Sergei Mikhalkov
Стихи про цирк
Verses about the circus
Moscow: Goppe, 2014
210 x 300 mm. 20 sheets
Unique copy
Model for a book with 20 water colours

Sergei Mikhalkov (1913-2009) is a writer and poet who
is best known for his text of the Soviet and the Russian
anthem and for his poetry for children. ‘Verses about the
circus’ contains a series of short verses about magicians,
jugglers, tightrope walkers and gymnasts, circus dogs,
lions and other interesting things about the circus. Goppe
bound twenty original water colours together in paper
wrappers and in a carton sleeve. Both wrappers and
sleeve are also adorned with an original water colour.

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