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Theatre Serge De Diaghilev Les Facheux; Georges Braque * Jean Cocteau * Louis Laloy * Georges Auric
by Diaghilev, Serge Pavlovich
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Rebound in green cloth, corners and backstrip extremities rubbed, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Editions Des Quatre Chemins, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Rebound in green cloth, corners and backstrip extremities rubbed, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good. Approx. 22 pages in text. 28 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 193 of 425 on Arches from a total edition of 500. Two volumes in one. Volume I: 23 color lithographs with tissue guards of set and costume designs by Georges Braque, one black and white plate reproducing portrait of Georges Auric by Cocteau, and facsimile of page of music by Auric. Volume II: photograph of Braque by Man Ray, plus photographic plates by George Detaille of costumed Diaghilev dancers. Les Facheux, a ballet conceived by Boris Kochno after Moliere, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska to music by Auric, and first performed by the Diaghilev ballet at Monte Carlo in 1924. Text in French, original wrappers designed by Braque bound-in.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19327
- Title
- Theatre Serge De Diaghilev Les Facheux; Georges Braque * Jean Cocteau * Louis Laloy * Georges Auric
- Author
- Diaghilev, Serge Pavlovich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Rebound in green cloth, corners and backstrip extremities rubbed, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Editions Des Quatre Chemins
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Dance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costume; Design; Theatre;
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ardsley, New York
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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