80/2146 Ballets Russes Boris Godounov 
80/2146 Ballets Russes Boris Godounov 
- 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).
80/2147 Ballets Russes Quinzième Saison Russe Mai Juin 1922 Programme Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew 
80/2147 Ballets Russes Quinzième Saison Russe Mai Juin 1922 Programme Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew 
- 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).
80 2148 Ballets Russes S Hurok Presents Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo Direction W de Basil 
80 2148 Ballets Russes S Hurok Presents Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo Direction W de Basil 
80/2149 Ballets Russes Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet Russe Souvenir With Originals by Léon Bakst and Others 
- 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".
80 2150 Ballets Russes Vertès M 
80 2150 Ballets Russes Vertès M 
80 2150 Ballets Russes Vertès M 
- 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.).
80 2151 Ballets Russes Collection 
80 2151 Ballets Russes Collection 
80 2152 Ballets Russes Lot of 12 souvenir program booklets 
80/2153 Bez Muz Khudozhestvennoe periodicheskoe izdanie Without Muses Artistic periodical No 1 
- 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.
80 2154 Bilibin I 
80 2154 Bilibin I 
- Creased and sl. fingersoiled. Wrappers loose, frayed and sl. dam.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.55.
80 2155 Bilibin I Afanasev A 
80 2155 Bilibin I Afanasev A 
- 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.
80/2156 Bilibin I Boris Godounov 
- Vertical crease. Otherwise a fine copy.
80/2157 La Chauve Souris Lot of 6 souvenir program booklets for revues of the Moscow Chauve Souris by Nikita Balieff 
- 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.
80 2158 Chekhonin S Efros N E 
- Frontwr. w. a few (partly erased) stamps; binding sl. worn along extremities; portion of backstrip loosening.
= Rowell/ Wye 174.
80 2159 Children's books Barto A 
80 2159 Children's books Barto A 
80 2159 Children's books Barto A 
- Most lvs. w. sm. closed marginal tear. Wrappers waterst. and sl. yellowed; rubbed/ dam. spot on frontcover erasing part of imprint.
= Lévèque/ Plantureux p.34: "(...) un livre devenu classique et ayant connu des rééditions dès la première année"; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.287f: "The illustrations for this book show the stylistic elements of the caricatures that Deineka had made for the magazines: exaggeration of the subject matter, the use of bright colours, the schematic handling of objects and persons, and their positioning within the picture".
AND a sl. mediocre copy of IDEM, Bratushki (ibid., 1929, col. lithogr. ills. and orig. wr. by G. YECHEISTOV, sm. 4to).
80 2160 Children's books Chukovsky K 
- Flattened vertical fold; sl. stained and fingersoiled, chipped and frayed.
= Doctor Aibolit travels to the African river Limpopo in order to cure its sick animal inhabitants. Lévèque/ Plantureux p.113: "Édition originale de l'un des plus populaires livres russes pour enfants, souvent adapté au cinéma, ou transformé en dessins animés. Pourtant, ces magnifiques poésies suscitérent la colère des pédagogues officiels et causèrent bien des soucis à Kornéï Tchoukovski".
80 2161 Children's books Emden E 
80 2161 Children's books Emden E 
- Spine splitting.
= Nicely illustrated, curious story of a German policeman seeing the doctor because the town of Halle has fallen ill with communist demonstrations. The doctor's pills and tinctures are useless: soon the red infection spreads across Germany and eventually the world. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
80 2162 Children's books Ivanovsky E 
80 2162 Children's books Ivanovsky E 
80 2162 Children's books Ivanovsky E 
80 2162 Children's books Ivanovsky E 
80 2162 Children's books Ivanovsky E 
- Boards w. some vague soiled areas; nevertheless a fine copy.
AND 1 other: S. MARSHAK. Kinderchen im Käfig. German transl. E. Weinert (Berlin, (1947), col. ills. and orig. wr. by J. TSCHARUSCHIN, 4to).
80 2163 Children's books Kipling R 
80 2163 Children's books Kipling R 
- Good/ fine copy.
= Eduard Krimmer (1900-1974) was a pupil of Malevich. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
80 2164 Children's books Marshak S 
80 2164 Children's books Marshak S 
80 2164 Children's books Marshak S 
- Pastedowns trifle foxed. Boards trifle rubbed along extremities. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
80 2165 Children's books Marshak S 
80 2165 Children's books Marshak S 
- Trifle yellowed. Lacks tiny portion of lower right corner frontwr.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, p.348: "The impact of Marshak's text in combination with Lebedev's illustrations was so great that soon after their presentation abroad they were published in translation while retaining their original form".
Goerjan, O. Het vroolijke onweer. Dutch adapt. L. Dworson and E. Hess-Binger. TIbid., idem, n.d. (±1929), 1st-4th thous., 18,(1)p. (incl. wr.), col. lithogr. ills. and orig. wr. by B. POKROWSKI.
- Vague oblique fold throughout. Wrappers sl. yellowed/ foxed; sl. waterst. along spine backwr; foot of spine dam.
AND 3 others publ. by the same: C. MARSHAK, De reis door Rusland (1930, col. ills. and orig. wr. by W. LEBEDEV), VOLKSRIJMPJES (1929, ills. by V. KONASCHEWITCH) and ENGEL, De gouden blaren (1930, ills. by WYSCHNEWETSKI and FRADKIN).