2138 - 2229 RUSSIAN BOOKS. (AVANT-GARDE) ART, LITERATURE and FINE PRINTING
- Hinges strengthened w. tape. Wr. vaguely stained; sm. stamp on backwr.
= Rowell/ Wye 330. Nine plates showing portraits of Lenin and one with the landscape seen from Lenin's office window. The third leaf shows Lenin's printed signature. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
- Scratch and tiny dam. spot in frontwr. = Rowell/ Wye 143. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Final lvs. incl. backwr. sl. waterst. in upper corner.
= Rowell/ Wye 755 and p.215. On the frontwrapper a stylized portrait of actress Alisa Koonen. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
AND 1 other, publ. by Kinopechat': V. SHKLOVSKY, Ikh nastoyaschee (Moscow/ Leningrad, 1927, plates, orig. wr., sm. 8vo).
- Title-p. sl. yellowed. Binding trifle spotted.
= Contains chapters on i.a. Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, J.J.P. Oud and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Bookblock loose(ning); sl. yellowed.
- Fine copy. Spine sl. sunned and sl. worn along extremities.
= Frontwr. reads "Opéra Russe à Paris. Théatre des Champs Elysées".
Opéra privé de Paris. Première Saison. Paris, Publicité Commerciale & Téatrale, 1929, (36)p., tipped-in portrait, 8 tipped-in col. plates by A.K. KOROVINE, adverts, orig. col. (foxed) wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN, 4to. - AND 1 other similar: Opéra Russe à Paris. Printemps 1930 (tipped-in col. plates by B. BILINSKY, orig. wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN).
- Wr. sl. worn/ creases. = Frontwr. reads "Opéra Russe à Paris. Théatre des Champs Elysées".
Opéra privé de Paris. Première Saison. Ibid., Publicité Commerciale & Téatrale, 1929, (36)p., tipped-in portrait, 8 tipped-in col. plates by A.K. KOROVINE, adverts., orig. col. (foxed) wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN, 4to. - AND 1 other similar: Opéra Russe à Paris. Printemps 1930 (tipped-in col. plates by B. BILINSKY, orig. wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN).
- Flimies dam. along margins.
"Les Ballets Russes. Programme édité par Comoedia Illustré". Paris, Théatre du Chatelet, 1911, no pagination, profusely illustrated w. i.a. col. ills. and orig. wr. after L. BAKST, folio (frontwr. loose and frayed).
- Spine splitting. Backwr. lacks lower right corner.
= First edition of the original program for the 1916 American tour of the Ballets Russes, with 25 full-page illustrations, featuring 15 plates of Bakst's stage designs and costumes for the productions (14 full color including one double-page), nine duotones of the dancers in performance and frontispiece portrait of Diaghilev after Bakst.
AND 3 other early programs of the Ballets Russes, all w. small defects: "Théatre de l'Opéra. Douzième Saison Russe (...) Mai et Juin 1920", "Serge de Diaghileff. Season of Russian Ballet 1927 at the Princess Theatre" and "Théatre de l'Opéra. Ballets Russes Diaghilew. Décembre 1928- Janvier 1929".
- Wr. partly foxed and dam. along spine.
= Very rare. Nautically themed costumes, which were designed by Vertès for a ball organized during the "Grande semaine moto-nautique de Cannes 28 Aout - 5 Septembre 1934, organisée par le Yacht moteur Club de la Méditerranée". "Les maquettes de costumes dessinées par Vertès peuvent être exécutées rapidement par Madame Karinsky, la costumière des Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (...)" (introd.).
- Trifle yellowed. Some unobtrusive sm. stains on frontwr.
= All published. Contains contributions by i.a. N. Aseev, R. Ivnev, S. Spassky, S. Tretyakov, V. Khlebnikov and V. Shershenevitch. Scarce. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Creased and sl. fingersoiled. Wrappers loose, frayed and sl. dam.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.55.
- Wr. loose and w. remnants of sellotape along spine.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.27: "Between 1901 and 1903 seven fairy tales were published [by the State Dispatch Office] in six volumes of the same size and with an identical cover on paper of the best quality and with the most up-to-date chromolithographic technique, all illustrated by Bilibin."
Bilibin, I. Skazka o zolotom petushke (The tale of the golden cockerel). Ibid., n.publ., 1910 [title-p. dated 1907], 11,(1)p., (4x full-p.) chromolithogr. ills. and bookdecoration by I. BILIBIN, obl. sm. folio.
- Loose(ning). Lacks wr.
= Picture book adaptation of the book publication for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, based on Pushkin's fairy tale. Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.55ff.
- Vertical crease. Otherwise a fine copy.
- Partly worn along extremities.
= La Chauve-Souris (The Bat) was the name of a touring revue during the early 1900s. Originating in Moscow and then Paris, and directed by Nikita Balieff, the revue toured the United States and Europe. The show consisted of songs, dances, and sketches, most of which had been originally performed in Russia.