Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289
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Sale 2289 - Lot 315

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
IMPORTANT RUSSIAN SILVER AGE ARTS PERIODICAL (RUSSIA. ART JOURNAL.) Starye Gody [Old Years]. 38 volumes (one duplicate) complete. Edited by P.P. Weiner, text in Russian with French captions and index. Numerous illustrations (some tipped-in, some in color) and plates. 8vo, variously bound in 1/4 calf (1907 issues) (spines and boards worn with some loss), white cloth with morocco lettering pieces (1908-10), and burgundy roan (1911-16). Most of the original wrappers bound in or laminated to front covers, a few volumes shaken, some signatures becoming loose, with occasional unobtrusive manuscript notations, plates mostly clean. St. Petersburg, 1907-16
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a complete run of this important art history periodical. With contributions by A. Benois, Diaghilev, Kondakov, Maeterlinck, Roerich, Somov and many others. Long active in the St. Petersburg art scene, the editor, Peter Petrovich Weiner, ultimately suffered an all too common fate under Stalin when he was imprisoned and later executed for counter-revolutionary activities in 1931. Scarce at auction, ABPC records only three complete runs appearing in the last 25 years.