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Lot 128. SHUKHAEV, Vasili Ivanovich (illustrator). and
Aleksandr PUSHKIN (1799-1837).
Boris Godounov. Paris: La Pléiade, 1925. 4to (300 x 235 mm).
Decorative title in brown and black, half-title, text printed in black
with headlines in brown. 18 plates, colored by hand using the
pochoir process, numerous decorative head and tail-pieces, all after
Shoukhaev. Contemporary morocco, titled in gilt on spine, original
wrappers bound in, t.e.g. Condition: occasional light soiling; joints
slightly split.
limited to 445 copies, this copy one of 390 examples on
“vergé a la forme” paper, numbered 245 and initialled ‘J.S.L.’.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 129. SOMOV, Konstanin Andreyevich (1869-1939)
(illustrator) and Antoine François PREVOST d’Exiles
(1697-1763).
Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. Paris: Éditions
du Trianon, 1927. Small 4to. (238 x 190 mm). Title in red and black,
half-title, 12 plates and 2 head-pieces after Somov, all colored using
the pochoir process and finished by hand, by Daniel Jacomet et Cie.
Contemporary French blue half morocco over patterened papercovered
boards, spines in five unequal compartments with raised
bands, lettered in the second and fourth, gilt device in the third
compartment, original wrappers bound in, t.e.g.
limited edition of 465 copies, one of 425 examples on vélin
d’arches paper, numbered from 26 to 450, this copy numbered 448.
$900 – $1200
Lot 130. STASOV, Vladimir Vasilevich (1824-1906).
Histoire du livre Les Emaux Byzantins [par] A.W. Zvénigorodskoï. St.
Petersburg: 1898. 4to (300 x 203 mm). Decorative lithographic title
printed in red and gilt, limitation leaf printed in black and gilt, 6 plates
(including 2 chromolithographs). Original cream cloth, elaborately
blocked in gilt and black, blue and gilt patterned endpapers, the page
edges elaborately blocked in gilt and red with a design including an
‘A.Z.’ monogram. Condition: light soiling to covers.
out-of-series copy from an edition of 100. The story of the
production of A.W. Zvénigorodskoï’s Histoire et Monuments des
Emaux Byzantins, published in 1894, together with the letters of
appreciation from princes, institutions, journals and various others.
$3000 – $4000
Lot 131. TELINGATER, Solomon Benediktovich (1903-1969)
(illustrator).
1914-i dokumentalnyi pamflet [1914. A Documentary Pamphlet].
Moscow: MTP, 1934. 92 pp. 8vo (250 x 175 mm). By Elya Feinberg.
With photomontages by S. Telingater. Original decorated black
cloth designed by Telingater. Condition: minor rubbing to boards.
One of 1000 copies. Along with Aleksandr Rodchenko and
Gustav Klutsis, Telingator was one of the Soviet Union’s greatest
photocollagists. 1914-i is one of his most characteristic works.
$800 – $1200
Lot 132. TERECHKOVITCH, Konstantin Andreevic
(1902-1978) (illustrator) and François PIÉTRI.
Les Princes du Sang. Large oblong 4to (268 x 317 mm). Title in red and
black, half-title in black, variously colored initials. 21pp. with colored
illustrations (7 full-page, 2 double-page), all after Terechkovitch.
Contemporary light brown morocco by Quéniot-Laballe, the flat
spine lettered and decorated with horse-shoes and riding crops in
gilt, gilt turn-ins, cream watered-silk pastedowns and free endpapers,
marbled blanks, original thin card wrappers bound in, matching
light brown morocco-backed marbled paper chemise, all within a
marbled paper slip-case.
a beautifully presented work on the “sport of kings”.
Limited edition of 200 copies signed by author and artist, this copy
numbered III, one of 30 copies numbered with roman numerals
and destined for the author, artist and collaborators. This example
further inscribed “Exemplaire de Collaborateur”.
$3500 – $4500
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