First edition of these excellent and uncompromising caricatures of war, by the great provocative German artist. A fine example, with the original fragile envelope and inscribed by Grosz to an important anarchist and collector.
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[RODCHENKO, Aleksandr (artist)] and Aleksei KRUCHENYKH
Miatezh. Kniga IX [Mutiny. Book IX]
Extremely rare work of the Russian avant-garde, with a unique collage by Rodchenko and Kruchenykh's surrealist poem-tale of "the American Goat". One of about 10 copies only, with just another one traced, in Moscow's State Library.
BURLIUK, David, Aleksandra EKSTER, Maria VASILIEVA (artists) and Benedict LIVSHITS (author)
Volchie solntse. Kniga stikhov vtoraia [v] "Futuristy" [Sun of wolves. Second book of poetry [in] "Futurists"]
First edition of this collection of futurist poetry, inscribed by Burliuk to "the best customer" Lev Grinkrug. A lovely book, finely illustrated with plates by Burliuk and two famous Russian avant-garde female artists: Exter and Vasilieva.
An attractive example of this pre-revolutionary Russian children book, with beautiful illustrations by a master of the genre and contemporary of Bilibin. In great condition, difficult to find such.
GONTCHAROVA [Natalia GONCHAROVA] and LARIONOW [Mikhail LARIONOV] (artists), and Valentin PARNAKH
L'Art décoratif théâtral moderne
Fine complete copy of the first, limited edition. With beautiful plates by the two Russian avant-garde artists working for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris, some of these illustrations large and strikingly colourful.
POLEVOI, Petr Nikolaevich (editor) and Ivan PANOV (artist)
Rodnye Otgoloski [Echoes from the Fatherland / Familiar Echoes]
Beautifully fresh example of a fine production for young Russian readers, gathering great Russian poems together with many illustrations - a lovely, charming piece of book design. Rare without any foxing like here.
[BAKST] – REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER
Inedited Works of Bakst
Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, especially remarkable for its pochoir technique. A lovely copy of the first edition.
Pleasant example of this curious work, gathering children's texts and drawings within the frame of the buoyant Russian avant-garde. A delicate production, fragile, here is fresh internal condition. First edition.
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[BEARDSLEY] – Mikhail LIKIARDOPULO (editor and translator) and others
Obri Berdslei. Risunki, povest, stikhi, aforizmy, pisma [Beardsley. Drawings, Novella, Poems, Aphorisms, Letters]
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.
PUSHKIN, Aleksandr and Aleksandr BENUA [BENOIS] (artist)
Pikovaia Dama [Queen of Spades]
A novella masterpiece of Russian literature here in a celebrated edition finely illustrated by a major Russian artist and art historian. A beautiful production too, and this is an attractive example.
GONCHAROVA, Natalia (artist) and Alexander RUBAKIN
Gorod. Stikhi. La Cité [The City. Poems]
An excellent example of this great Russian avant-garde book, finely produced in Paris and showing a wealth of illustrations by Goncharova. First edition.
Great example of possibly the greatest Ukrainian ABC.
BAKHCHANIAN, Vagrich (also BAKHCHANYAN)
Zerkalo No.21. Chitat s pomoshchiu zerkala [Mirror #21. Read with a Mirror]
A booklet of contemporary art by a Ukraine-born Armenian artist, then just recently emigrated to the US. Extremely rare: only copy traced.
A classic Ballets-Russes work inscribed to a Russian-born Parisian lady, while she was helping Proust publishing the beginning of his 'Recherche': a fine example of the first edition of this famous work.
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[OLD BELIEVERS] – MIATELKOV, Fedor Petrovich
Sviattsy [Religious Almanac]
Complete with bold miniatures and ornaments: a fine Old-Believer manuscript, signed by the scribe and artist. With contemporary provenance.
YERMILOV, Vasyl (also Wassul JERMILOW) and Valerian POLISHCHUK
Ukrainskaia zhivopis. Ukrainske malyarstvo. Ukrainische Kunst Malerei. La peinture ucrainienne
Great monograph of a leading avant-garde artist, written by his close friend, later executed by Stalin. First edition, very richly illustrated. Scarce.