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Beardsley craze in Russia

[BEARDSLEY] – Mikhail LIKIARDOPULO (editor and translator) and others

Obri Berdslei. Risunki, povest, stikhi, aforizmy, pisma [Beardsley. Drawings, Novella, Poems, Aphorisms, Letters]
A. I. Mamontov for Skorpion, Moskva, 1912.

One of the first major works on Beardsley, with a wealth of illustrations and other material, literary as well as bio-bibliographical. A rare edition in the West, here in a pleasant press copy.

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More than 120 full-page watercolours for some great edifying stories

[OLD BELIEVERS]

[Sinodik]
[Russian Empire, late 18th-early 19th-century].

The Afterllife and its wonders in original watercolours: a wealthy visual catalogue for Russian Old Believers, remarkable for the large quantity of full-page images - one on every leaf.

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Striking patterns in colour

STASOV – STASSOFF, V[ladimir Vasilievich]

Russkii narodnyi ornament. Vyp. 1: Shitie, tkani, kruzheva [All published] L'Ornement national russe. Première livraison. Broderies, tissus, dentelles
Tip. Tov. Obshchestvennaia polza, Skt Peterburg, 1872.

The first significant study of Russian textile ornaments, richly illustrated, and still one of the most remarkable such works. First edition, complete.

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Showing his painting, frescoes, drawings, sculptures, book covers...

YERMILOV, Vasyl (also Wassul JERMILOW) and Valerian POLISHCHUK

Ukrainskaia zhivopis. Ukrainske malyarstvo. Ukrainische Kunst Malerei. La peinture ucrainienne
Kharkiv, Rukh, 1931.

Great monograph of a leading avant-garde artist, written by his close friend, later executed by Stalin. First edition, very richly illustrated. Scarce.

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Central Asia in beautifully subtle tones

KRAFFT, Hugues

A Travers le Turkestan Russe
Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1902.

Remarkable photographic record of nowadays Uzbekistan and neighbouring regions - a beautiful, luxury production, and a fine example, inscribed by the photographer and author.

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With gold chromolithography

PETROV-ROPET, Ivan (artist)

Obiavlenie o Koronovanii Nikolaia II i Aleksandry Fedorovny 14 maia 1896g [Announcement of the Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna on 14 May 1896]
A.A. Levenson, Moskva, [1896].

Beautiful broadside for the coronation of Russia's last tsar, very decorative and in very good condition.

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A future Gulag camp - printed in Arkhangelsk

CHEREPANOV, V. (publisher)

Vidy Mestnostei Solovetskogo Monasteria [Views of the Solovetskii Monastery and its Environs]
V. Cherepanov, Arkhangelsk, 1884.

A lovely work showing many views of a great Orthodox monastery, and future Soviet camp. Printed in a major port of the White Sea.

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Copy Number 1

[BAKST] – LEVINSON, André

Bakst: the Story of the Artist's Life
Selle, Berlin for Brentano's, New York and A. Kogan, Berlin, 1923.

The most celebrated artist of the Ballets Russes, celebrated here in this beautiful production - of which it is the copy num. 1 out of only 315 printed for the UK.

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A Russian woman discovers Southern India

SHCHERBATOVA, Olga Aleksandrovna

Po Indii i Tseilonu. Moi putevyia zametki 1890-91 [Across India and Ceylon. My Travel Notes 1890-91]
Kushnerev i Ko, Moskva, 1892.

Wide-ranging travel account, illustrated with a wealth of photographs, some taken by the author, a remarkable Russian princess fond of travels. A fine example of this scarce first edition.

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The achievements of Japanese colonisation in Sakhalin

Karafuto Shashin-cho [A Photographic Album of South Sakhalin]
Karafuto-cho [Sakhalin Public Office], Tokyo [but Karafuto Toyohara?], Showa 11 [ie. 1936].

Great visual record of South Sakhalin in the 1920s-30s: wide-ranging, artistic - and scarce. A beautifully fresh example.

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At the height of the Avant-Garde

ROZANOVA, Olga and Iosif SHKOLNIK (artists), David BURLIUK, Velimir KHLEBNIKOV and others

Soiuz molodezhi. 3 [Union of the Youth. Issue 3]
Peterburg, Usov, Mart 1913.

With 11 plates by Rozanova and Shkolnik: A pleasant example of the main issue of this great 'magazine', a famous publication of the first Russian avant-garde association.

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A lovely, fresh example

BARBIER, George and Francis de MIOMANDRE

Dessins sur les Danses de Vaslav Nijinsky
La Belle Edition, Paris, 1913.

Beautiful art-deco interpretations of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, seen here through the combined geniuses of Barbier and Nijinsky, in the early and most successful years of Diaghilev's entreprise. A rare book in such a lovely condition.

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In fresh condition

[UKRAINE]

Sobor Sv. Kniazia Vladimira v Kieve [The Cathedral of Prince Vladimir the Saint in Kyiv]
Kulzhenko, Kiev, 1898.

First edition of this attractive production of Kiyv's leading publisher at the time, and fine study of the architecture and decorations of the recent cathedral.

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In fine condition

GRIGORIEV, Boris Dmitrievich

Faces of Russia
Sinaburg, Berlin, for Great Britain and the Colonies, 1924.

A lovely, clean copy of this great book of artistic portraits of Russians. First English edition, copy num. 7.

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Published by the first Russian woman theatre director

[BEARDSLEY] – Nikolai Nikolaevich EVREINOV

Berdslei [Beardsley]
Butkovskaia, Skt. Peterburg, 1912.

First edition of the first significant Russian essay on Beardsley, richly illustrated and published by the first female theatrical director in Russia. A rare publication in Western institutions.

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