Levinson Andre Preface (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leon Bakst (illustrator). Reprint of the limited edition folio with black and white illustrations; 4to, red cloth, no dj; vg (spot on front board, white smudge on rear; bottom edge of rear board and bottom corners bumped; spine ends bumped; eps and pages toning). 18pp + 54 plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Ed. 140pp, octavo hardcover in black cloth, no dj. mild wear to boards, gilt titles to spine and front cover decor clean, binding slightly starting at title page yet remains solid and strong, bookplate to front pastedown, interior text clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reissue. Book is clean and tight. Book.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Leon Bakst (illustrator). First Limited & Numbered Edition. Limited First Edition Number 383 of 1,000 copies, of which 500 were Reserved For the United States of America. A rare collection record of the sets and costumes from Leon Bakst final work; Serge Diaghilev's 1921 London Production of Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Princess". His creations were an innovative theatre of visual delight. Bakst was greatly influenced by the court of Louis XIV, Moorish and Oriental creations and Russian Folk Arts. Frontis: portait of Bakst by Picasso with tissue guard. Title & List of illustrations page with colour vignettes by Bakst. Fifty-four coloured plates by Bakst on heavy stock and each with lettered tissue guards are all clean and intact. Cover: quarter velllum over blue cloth on boards with gilt titles to spine. Moderate soiling and rubbing to cover. Edges: gilt top-edge with some rubbed wear and marks; fore & bottom edges with mild foxing and age yellowing , now slightly browned. Moderate rubbed wear to extremeties. Boards fore corners with heavy wear. A few pages with some thin, marginal tide marks to margins. Ffep & half-title page with vertical fold crease near fore-edge. Just a few pages with faint and few only foxing and/or small light smudge. Binding is VG+ Large & moderately heavy book: 395 x 300 mm.

Condition: Near Fine. First Limited Edition. No. 92 of 1,000 limitation. Folio, 39.5 by 30 cm. 18, [1] pp., followed by 54 mounted color plates, each with captioned tissue guard. Condition: binding with edge wear. Light soil of vellulm spine. Interior with touch of age toning. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy. Quarter Vellum. Cloth on boards.

Paperback. Condition: g to g+. Limited First edition. 1/500. Folio. [8], 21, [3]pp (text), 54 leaves (plates). Uncut. Original glassine on decorative and printed dust-jacket over blind wrappers. Book housed in its original decorative green paper covered slipcase, with gold lettering and decoration on spine and along joints. Raised bands. Limitation page signed by both Léon Bakst and Editor Maurice de Brunhoff. Color illustration pasted on title page. Stunning lithographic frontispiece portrait of Bakst after a drawing by Picasso. Decorative head-, tailpiece, and initial. In 1921, the opportunity arose for Sergei Diaghilev, the renown Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, to present Tchaikovski's "La Belle au Bois Dormant" at the Alhambra Theatre, in London using the notes that the Ballet Master Nicholas Sergeyev had kept from pre-Revolutionary Russia. It was to be a production of great magnificence designed by Léon Bakst, and the first time the typically Russian, full-length ballet (in five scenes) would be performed in England. Petipa's choreography, preserved through the use of Stepanov notation, was restaged by Nicolas Sergueev, stage manager for the Maryinski Theatre. Bronislava Nijinska, younger sister to Nijinski and also a dancer and choreographer, adjusted several enchaînements and supervised the whole show. Olga Spessivtseva was Aurora, Pierre Vladimirov, the Prince, and Lydia Lopokova alternated with Bronislava Nijinska in the role of the Lilac Fairy. Stanislav Idzikowski proved to be a brilliant Blue Bird. Carlotta Brianza, who had created the title role of Sleeping Beauty in 1890 in Saint Petersburg, played Carabosse this time. The superb scenery and costumes were designed by Léon Bakst. This stunning signed limited first edition contains the complete 54 mounted color plates depicting the exotic, sumptuous, and richly colored costumes and sets designed by Bakst for this memorable London performance. His ingenious designs, in conjunction with Diaghilev's radical and provocative choreography, helped revitalize ballet and lay the framework for modern interpretive dance. Each of the mounted color plates measures 15 1/4 x 11" (image appr. 10 1/2 x 6 3/4"), and is protected with a captioned tissue guard. One of 500 copies, of which this is No.358. Gold lettering and decoration partly faded on slipcase. Water staining on boards. Glassine age-toned and chipped at tail of spine. Creasing along dust-jacket's spine. Wrappers intact. Book block separating. 11 plates loose. Moderate and sporadic creasing on tissue-guards. Text in French. Slipcase and glassine in overall fair to good, dust-jacket in good, wrappers and interior in good+, plates in very good condition.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Full Color Illustrations (illustrator). 145 pages. Illustrations are in full color. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, slight wear to edges. Glossy card covers with cloth spine. Archival reprint / replica of original edition. Privately published. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Costume design, play acting, set design. Limited Edition, this is copy 65 of 150 copies. Clean and Unmarked Text. Book.