![]() ![]() 65 and 125, but holding, occasional browning to edges, contents fresh and clean. Spine lightly creased with a little loss of paper at ends, couple of minor nicks at edges, small mark to rear panel, wrapper split from book block at rear inner hinge, book block split before pp. ![]() With 24 photogravure plates by Bakst, Barbier, Serov, Soudekine, and others, numerous photogravures and woodcuts in text, text within red frame throughout. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander box. Original paper wrappers, titles to spine and front cover in black. ![]() Valerian Yakovlevich Ivchenko (1860-1932), married to the ballerina Vera Trefilova, was an esteemed ballet critic of the St Petersburg Gazette, editor of the literary magazine Neva, and one of the early promoters of Diaghilev's Ballets Russe. A well-preserved example of this uncommon and fragile publication, a beautifully printed and illustrated study of the great prima ballerina. First edition in English, number 143 of 300 copies signed by the publisher, this copy additionally boldly signed by Anna Pavlova on the half-title. ![]()
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