Album dédié à Tamar Karsavina.
Published/created in: 1914
£3,950
Fine example of the first edition. Barbier, a great art-deco artist and illustrator, celebrates here one of the star dancers of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - a beautiful production in appealing condition.
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SHEKSPIR [William SHAKESPEARE] and Apollon GRIGORIEV (translator)
Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid [Shylock, The Merchant of Venice [or in this case] The Jew of Venice]
Sheilok, Venetsianskii zhid. [Shylock, The Merchant of Venice [or in this case] The Jew of Venice]
Published/created in: 1860
£1,950
Very rare translation into Russian of Shakespeare 'Merchant of Venice'. An appealing example.
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Gore ot uma. Komediia v chetyrekh deistviiakh, v stikhakh. [Woe from Wit. A Comedy in Four Acts in Verse]
Published/created in: 1854
£2,500
Rare small-format edition of this famous masterpiece of Russian theatre, a lovely copy with its original wrappers. No copy traced in WorldCat.
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich [TOLSTOI]
Zhivoi trup. Drama v 6 deistviyakh i 12 kartinakh [A Living Corpse. A drama in 6 acts and 12 scenes]
Zhivoi trup. Drama v 6 deistviyakh i 12 kartinakh. [A Living Corpse. A drama in 6 acts and 12 scenes]
Published/created in: 1912
£1,000
First separate edition of Tolstoy's play, a large-format quality production, with illustrations. A lovely example, unopened in the charming art-nouveau wrappers.
Tolstoy wrote in his diary, "that in A Living Corpse there are notes inspired by Chekhov's work. Such is the secret of artistic creativeness".
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[EVREINOV, Nikolai] – KAMENSKII, Vasilii Vasilievich
Kniga o Evreinove [A Book About Evreinov]
Kniga o Evreinove. [A Book About Evreinov]
Published/created in: 1917
£250
Avant-garde theatre - including Wilde and Beardsley - through the eyes of an avant-garde poet, artist and aviator. Published the year of the Revolution, by an important theatre woman.
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Cabinet photograph signed to Andrei Pavlovich Petrovskii.
Published/created in: [c. 1911]
£3,750
Excellent photograph of the famous director, beautifully inscribed to a fellow man of theatre.
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Mekhanicheskii Teatr Sveta. Obiavlenie. [Mechanical Theatre of Light. Announcement]
Published/created in: 1833
£500
Rare broadside for series of entertainments in Moscow, including an optical theatre of animated figures by a versatile performer and craftsman.
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Kinetozograficheskie vidy. Obiavlenie. [Kinetozographic Views. Announcement]
Published/created in: 1834
£650
Rare broadside for an impressive Russian kinetozographic theatre of 400 animated figures in Pushkin's Moscow, by a hot-air balloon enthusiast now in the Guinness World Records.
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Pervyi vinokur ili kak chertenok kraiushku zasluzhil. Komediia. [The First Distiller, or How the Little Devil Earned his Crust. A Comedy]
Published/created in: 1886
£1,750
First edition of Tolstoy's successful play on wine and some of its effects... Lovely example in wrappers. Scarce.
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Autograph letter, signed, to "cher Directeur" [Jacques Hébertot].
Published/created in: 24 June 1924
£3,950
Very good autograph letter by Diaghilev, the celebrated founder of the Ballets Russes. With his bold signature, which is rarely found.
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Recueil des plans et façades des principaux monumens construits à Saint Pétersbourg et dans les différentes provinces de l'Empire de Russie.
Published/created in: 1806
£2,250
Scarce architectural work by one of the leading architects of the Russian empire under Tsar Paul 1st, and responsible for some of the most famous buildings in St. Petersburg and Odessa.
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[GLINKA] – VALTER, Viktor Grigorievich
Opera M. I. Glinki Ruslan i Liudmila [The Opera 'Ruslan and Ludmila' by Glinka]
Opera M. I. Glinki Ruslan i Liudmila. [The Opera 'Ruslan and Ludmila' by Glinka]
Published/created in: 1903
£3,000
Excellent copy, with fine, desirable Romanov provenance, of this very rare study of one of the great Russian operas.
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[BAKST] – REAU, Louis, Denis ROCHE, Valerian SVETLOV and A. TESSIER
Inedited Works of Bakst
Inedited Works of Bakst.
Published/created in: 1927
£3,250
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.
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SHEKSPIR, Uilliam [William SHAKESPEARE] and Aleksandr SOKOLOVSKII (translator)
Son v letniuiu noch [bound with] Iulii Tsezar [A Midsummer Night's Dream [bound with] Julius Caesar]
Son v letniuiu noch [bound with] Iulii Tsezar. [A Midsummer Night's Dream [bound with] Julius Caesar]
Published/created in: 1885
£2,500
Two first editions in one volume, by the man who translated all Shakespeare's significant plays for the first time. A pleasant example of this rarity: no other copy traced outside Russia.
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