Lot 165
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GRIGORIEV -- REAU, Louis, FARRERE, Claude, and others. Boris Grigoriev. Faces of Russia. London: n.p., 1924. 2° (360 x 270mm). 30 illustrations, all but one tipped-in as issued, most full page, and many in colour. (Light spotting not affecting the plates, occasional light soiling, some guards with light wear.) Original half vellum over paper-covered boards, the upper side illustrated and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt (boards darkened at edges, some spotting and soiling, vellum yellowed). Provenance: Alexander Otzupy (presentation inscription on the title dated Berlin 1927 to:) -- 'Major Gwynne'.
GRIGORIEV -- REAU, Louis, FARRERE, Claude, and others. Boris Grigoriev. Faces of Russia. London: n.p., 1924. 2° (360 x 270mm). 30 illustrations, all but one tipped-in as issued, most full page, and many in colour. (Light spotting not affecting the plates, occasional light soiling, some guards with light wear.) Original half vellum over paper-covered boards, the upper side illustrated and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt (boards darkened at edges, some spotting and soiling, vellum yellowed). Provenance: Alexander Otzupy (presentation inscription on the title dated Berlin 1927 to:) -- 'Major Gwynne'.

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GRIGORIEV -- REAU, Louis, FARRERE, Claude, and others. Boris Grigoriev. Faces of Russia. London: n.p., 1924. 2° (360 x 270mm). 30 illustrations, all but one tipped-in as issued, most full page, and many in colour. (Light spotting not affecting the plates, occasional light soiling, some guards with light wear.) Original half vellum over paper-covered boards, the upper side illustrated and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt (boards darkened at edges, some spotting and soiling, vellum yellowed). Provenance: Alexander Otzupy (presentation inscription on the title dated Berlin 1927 to:) -- 'Major Gwynne'.

FIRST EDITION, one of only 500 copies, this one out-of-series. Grigoriev painted many of his important contemporaries, including Anna Akhmatova, Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich.

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