Jun 13, 2017 - Sale 2451

Sale 2451 - Lot 132

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BAKST, LÉON / THEATER / COSTUME.) Levinsohn, André. Léon Bakst. German text. 68 mounted color plates by Bakst with lettered tissue guards; numerous black-and-white and color plates throughout text. Folio, gilt-stamped vellum over purple boards, usual uneven fading and wear to spine which bears a vellum patch above publisher's name; contents and plates clean; bookplates on pastedown and colophon. first limited german edition. number 175 of 250 copies. This copy with additional hand-painted title decoration of bright blue gouache circles with black rings inside, in the manner of a Bakst detail. Berlin: Wasmuth, (1925)