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Image for GLADKY, S. & A. SALMON. Synthese du costume theatral. First edition, Paris, 1927. #2

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Cubist theatrical impressions

GLADKY, Serge (artist, also Serhii HLADKY) and André SALMON

Synthèse du costume théâtral

Ducros et Colas for Le Théâtre Mondial, Paris, 1927.

One of only 170 copies of this beautiful album of fresh and striking plates. In a fine modern binding.

Image for LEVINSON, A. Bakst: The Story of the Artist's Life. First edition, copy num. 1; Berlin, 1923. #1

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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.

Image for BAKST, L. Inedited works. First edition with dust jacket. 1927 #2

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In luminous pochoir with silver highlights

[BAKST] – REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER

Inedited Works of Bakst

Brentano's, New York, 1927.

Among the best representations of Bakst's costumes for the Ballets Russes, here with the rare dust-jacket in very good condition.

Image for Barbier, Danses de Nijinsky, 1913 #1

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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.

Image for [BAKST] - ALEXANDRE, A. and J. COCTEAU. L'Art décoratif de Léon Bakst. First edition, 1913. #2

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Beautiful copy in its striking binding

[BAKST] – ALEXANDRE, Arsène and Jean COCTEAU

L'Art décoratif de Léon Bakst

De la More Press, Londres, for Maurice de Brunoff, Paris, 1913.

The earliest, largest and most impressive work on Bakst's striking art. A fine, fresh example, in its great art-déco binding.

Image for Zienkowicz, Costumes du peuple polonais, edition originale, 1841. #1

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'Un Etat immolé mais une Nation indestructible'

ZIENKOWICZ, Leon Józef

Les Costumes du peuple polonais suivis d'une description exacte de ses moeurs de ses usages et de ses habitudes. Ouvrage pittoresque

G. Silbermann for Librairie Polonaise, Paris and Strasbourg, and Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1841.

Celebrated book on Polish (and Ukrainian, Lithuanian etc.) costumes, especially interesting for its political text and context, often overlooked. Plates with attractive hand-colour - a fine example of the first edition.

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