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567 - Souvenir. Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. With original artwork by Léon Bakst and others. Metropolitan Ballet Company, New York. New York (The Sackett & Wilhelms Company, 1916), 4vo. Sewn binding with green or cream silk cord; covers of brown or green marbled cardboard featuring gold-embossed titles and illustrations (covers slightly rubbed, minor tears; overall condition: very good). Two souvenir albums of Diaghilev’s ballet performances at the Metropolitan Opera (1916). A substantial series of black-and-white and (mostly) color illustrations by Léon Bakst, some appearing in both volumes (1. Portrait of Serge de Diaghileff and his maid, 14 full-page and 1 double-page - 2. 13 full-page and 1 double-page), 1 color plate by Robert Edmond Jones. Pages decorated throughout with ornamental frames. Numerous photographs of performers, including V. Nijinsky, L. Lopokova, and L. Massine.
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Souvenir. Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. With original artwork by Léon Bakst and others. Metropolitan Ballet Company, New York. New York (The Sackett & Wilhelms Company, 1916), 4vo. Sewn binding with green or cream silk cord; covers of brown or green marbled cardboard featuring gold-embossed titles and illustrations (covers slightly rubbed, minor tears; overall condition: very good). Two souvenir albums of Diaghilev’s ballet performances at the Metropolitan Opera (1916). A substantial series of black-and-white and (mostly) color illustrations by Léon Bakst, some appearing in both volumes (1. Portrait of Serge de Diaghileff and his maid, 14 full-page and 1 double-page - 2. 13 full-page and 1 double-page), 1 color plate by Robert Edmond Jones. Pages decorated throughout with ornamental frames. Numerous photographs of performers, including V. Nijinsky, L. Lopokova, and L. Massine.
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