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Baldwin, Roger N, introduction; (Einstein, Selma Lagerloff, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, H G Wells, et al)Biblio.com

LETTERS FROM RUSSIAN PRISONS: Consisting of Reprints of Documents by Political Prisoners in Soviet Prisons Prison Camps and Exile and Reprints of Affidavits Concerning Political Persecution in Soviet Russia Official Statements by Soviet Authorities Excerpts from Soviet Laws Pertaining to Civil Liberties and Other Documents

1925ref. 55651New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1925. First edition. Includes 22 letters by "Celebrated Intellectuals" many of whom were Nobel Prize recipients including Karl Capek Albert Einstein Selma Lagerlof Sinclair Lewis Maurice Maeterlinck Thomas Mann Romain Rolland Bertrand Russell Upton Sinclair H. G. Wells Rebecca West Izrael Zangwill et al. Published in the U.S. by Boni and the UK by The C. W. Daniel Company for the International Committee for Political Prisoners I.C.P.P. whose members who are listed opposite the title page included Jane Addams the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Clarence Darrow Anna N. Davis Eugene Debbs W. E. B. DuBois Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Elisabeth Gilman et al. The I.C.P.P. was established in 1924 to agitate for the release of and raise funds for political prisoners around the world. "An impetus to the committee's formation was the imprisonment of Menshevists Social Revolutionaries Maximalists Anarchists and other dissenters in the U.S.S.R. Consequently the committee's first major effort was the publication of LETTERS FROM RUSSIAN PRISONS in 1925. This book profiled imprisoned revolutionaries and its criticism of the Soviet government generated controversy in leftist circles."-from the website of the New York Public Library. 8vo black pebble-cloth boards stamped in gilt and ruled on front in blind; top edge red; illustrated with photographs of original documents & letters; 317 pages. Spine gilt perished if it was ever there otherwise very good with contents fine and binding strong. Albert & Charles Boni unknown

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Bakst, Leon; Carl Einstein (Introduction)ABAA

Leon Bakst. 42 Tafeln und 7 Abbildungen 42 Plates and 7 Illustrations Complete. Extra illustrated with Five Additional Plates

1927ref. 49047Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.-G 1927. First edition. Good- to fine condition. 176/330. 41 1pp. 42 plates with printed tissue guards. Original quarter vellum over brown paper-covered boards with gilt vignette on cover gilt lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device and black double frame. Cover design by Lucian Zabel. With an introduction on Russian culture the tradition of ballet and theater set and costume design by Carl Einstein. Many of the plates with dates ranging from 1910 to 1923 including motifs created during the war. The motifs of the plates range from close-up figure drawings to simple folk costumes elaborate gowns for members of the Court mystical figures and various set designs. Illustrated with forty-two plates nineteen of them fully or partially colored by hand or pochoir some heightened in gilt or silver three b/w one sepia-toned lithograph and nineteen plates reproduced in high quality offset printing. The title page calls for forty-two plates and six illustrations in the text. Our copy is illustrated with seven tipped-in color offset reproductions and one b/w lithograph as endpiece on page seventeen. In addition the work is extra-illustrated with five color offset reproductions: one full-page embossed color plate with extensive hand-applied gilt overlay facing page seven Le Roi a full-page embossed color offset reproduction with extensive silver overlay facing plate one Phedre Thesee dated 1923 and three full page color offset reproductions facing plates fifteen L'Amazone with black overprinting twenty-five Scheherazade embossed and heightened in silver and Lampe d'Aladin multicolor overprint and thirty-six La Sultane embossed and overprinted in gilt facing the same image though with greater detail. The copies listed in OCLC vary in publication dates all calling for 42 plates and six in-text illustrations. Auction records call for 1925. One auction record for the 1925 edition calls for the lithograph line drawing in the text. Our copy contains two plates dated 1922 in addition to others dated 1917. We've been unable to find any bibliographic record that describes seven in-text illustrations or the five additional illustrations facing four of the plates and the first page of the text as described. Text in German. Binding with light wear along edges but vellum smudged and variously discolored. Block lightly starting at a few plates 11 15 19 27 30 42. A couples of tissue guards for plates loose but present. Binding in overall good- plates in very good to fine condition. Leon Bakst 1866-1924 was a Russian painter costume and set designer. Bakst studied art at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle. In 1893 he moved to Paris for four years studying at the Academy Julian. He founded the magazine 'Mir Iskusstva World of Art' with his friends Alexander Benois Sergei Diaghilev and Valentin Serov. Bakst is best known for his work in set and costume design for the Ballet Russes. Ernst Wasmuth A.-G unknown books