Russian & Eastern European
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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.
£1,500 -
Limited edition, one of 999 copies, on papier japon; 4to (30.7 x 30.1 cm); 6 plates by Paul Iribe each with verse by Jean Cocteau; original printed wrappers with later tie cords, some minor creasing to margin of wrapper, an excellent example.
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First edition; 4to (27.5 x 23.5 cm); text and music by Kuzmin, four phototype plates printed on strong wove paper, and four full-page illustrations, by N. Feofilaktov and S. Sudeikin, Сyrillic ownership inscription 'A. Artsikhovskiy' in pink ink to upper flyleaf; decorative coloured silk boards, silk frayed at spine and edges;
£650 -
Folio (31 x 24 cm); 24pp.; 10 illustrations by Annenkov, text in French and German; original printed wrappers, slightly age toned, a fine copy.
£975 -
First edition, folio (32 x 24.5 cm); 16pp., illustrations by Sudeikin and Remizov; original printed wrappers designed by Sudeikin with hand-colouring, an excellent copy.
£650 -
Limited edition, one of 600 copies, this being copy number one; folio (34 x 26 cm); 127pp., with 30 plates by Bakst, including 20 coloured by pochoir, 5 colour printed and mounted and 5 plain, lettered tissue guards, black and white and colour illustrations in the text, some restoration to gutter, very minor spotting; original cloth backed boards with vignette printed to centre of upper cover, slight browning, original printed dust jacket with Bakst's design, spine replaced and covers repaired, a very good copy.
£7,500 -
First edition, one of 500 copies, of which 100 were hors commerce; small 8vo (190 x 102 mm); some pages uncut, internally fresh; in the original printed wrappers, lower wrapper discoloured, spine partially split but still holding, an excellent example without any restoration.
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First edition, number 30 of 325 copies, numbered and signed by the editor M. de Brunoff; 4to; text in French, woodcuts by D. Galanis, 22 plates with tissue-guards, numerous in-text illustrations and photographic reproductions; contemporary red pebble-grain morocco, upper cover with gilt lettering and calligraphic flourish, raised bands, spine panels with gilt sultana centerpiece, gilt titling, mustard yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed, modern marbled paper slipcase, a fine copy.
£2,000 -
8vo (20 x 13 cm); [iv], xxiv, 262 pp., [5], biography of Krylov written by P. A. Pletnev, 25 hand-coloured full-page lithographs by Ulyanov including a frontispiece, plates on various colour paper, minor staining to text block, title foxed; original hand-coloured lithographic boards dated 1848, spine skilfully rebacked, retaining most of the original design, some wear to boards but overall good copy.
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First edition; folio (38.5 x 16 cm); 111p., 55 partly coloured lithographed plates, some double page, large geological coloured map; contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards, label and gilt tooling to spine, a fine copy.
£3,750