Russian illustrated books

First edition, limited edition, number 365 of 390 copies on vergé, from a total edition of 430, signed 'J. Sch' (the publisher) on the justification page; 4to (31 x 24 cm); 18 full page hand-coloured pochoir plates by V. Shukhaev, with tissue guards, decorative bands and tailpieces throughout, some minor spotting; twentieth century tree calf over marbled boards, spine in parts and elaborately gilt, labels in red and green, covers slightly rubbed and corners bumped, original printed brown wrappers bound in, a fine example [with] a large original gouache of one of the plates on paper covered thick card (35 x 27.5 cm), signed and dated 1924 in the bottom right hand corner.

First edition; folio (30.5 x 23 cm); 12pp., three full page chromolithographs and head and tail pieces throughout after Mitrokhin, skillful repairs to spine; original printed wrappers, small bookseller's stamp to lower wrapper, a very good copy.

Collection of 6 postcards of costume designs and a set of 4 from fairytales (14 x 8.5 cm); lithographed in colour by N. Kadushin, dated 1911, reverses left blank, one with minor staining, an exceptionally bright and fine set.

First edition; 8vo (22 x 18 cm); frontispiece in blue and gilt, 24 tipped-in colour plates of Bilibin's costume and set designs over black and white illustrations, photographic reproductions, school library stamp to numerous leaves, small bookseller's label to lower pastedown, annotations to flyleaf, some illustrations with added colour pencil, minor staining, wrappers worn, text block loose; later brown cloth with original printed wrappers bound in, title in gilt to upper cover, edges worn.

Landscape folio (35 x 50 cm); lithographed title, engraved map hand-coloured in outline and index leaf, and 43 lithographed plates after various artists including Orlowskiy, Alexandrov and Kollman, with captions in French, a few with minor foxing, ink inscription to title-page; contemporary half calf, upper cover with trimmed upper wrapper laid down, dust-jacket and slipcase.

First edition, limited edition, one of 800 copies; 4to (25 x 20 cm); half-title, title-page with frontispiece, 196pp., illustrated throughout, with 22 hors-texte; original yellow silk covered boards with gilt title to upper cover, spine stained, silk split to an excellent copy.

First edition, 8vo (22 x 16 cm); with 43 illustrations, four of which are mounted (3 of which are in colour), text in Russian; original grey wrappers printed in red and black, publisher's stamp to lower cover, spine sunned, very small stain to upper cover, a very good copy.

First edition; 4to (33 x 25 cm); signed and inscribed by the author on the upper fly leaf to Isaar Saulovich Gurvich-Issarov, dated 1930; chromolithographic title and 34 full-page chromolithographic illustrations; modern full morocco binding with design to match the original cover, gilt title to spine, original covers bound in (upper cover window mounted), minor spotting to a few plates but overall an excellent example.

Limited edition, one of 450 copies for America, this being number 79, 4to (33.5 x 27 cm); title-page in black and red designed by Goncharova who also designed the tail-pieces, frontispiece of Diaghilev, 66 plates tipped in on grey paper after Bakst, Benois, Fedorovsky, Golovin, Goncharova, Larionov, Picasso, Sert, Roerich, Sudeikin and others, mostly in colour, some slight foxing to prelims; original marbled boards and white cloth spine with title in gilt, spine extremities bumped, a good copy.

First edition; large 4to (31.5 x 23 cm); 48 chromolithographs (including one frontispiece) and 105 in text illustrations after A. Zhaba, red edges, white moiré endpapers, slight staining to margins; original pictorial cloth binding with gilt detail, dog design to lower cover, spine with gilt title and peacock and spider design, upper cover a little faded and minor staining to spine, edges bumped, overall a very good copy.