MOUSSINAC, LÉON. Tendances Nouvelles du Théatre. 124 plates, some hand-colored in pochoir in the workshop of Jean Saudé, plus collotype illustrations in the text, depicting performances, costume and stage design of avant-garde theater and dance companies of Russia, Europe and the United States by artists Jacoleff, Popova, Exter, Bel Geddes, Léger, Picasso, and others. The productions include those by Tairoff, Meyerhold, Brecht, Reinhardt, Vakhtangov, and many others. Thick folio, publisher's original pictorial grey wrappers, a few archivally repaired tears and spine reinforced; contents clean but for the usual light marginal toning; custom gilt-lettered navy buckram folding case with ties; ex-library, with bookplate on front pastedown and a few numbers on preliminaries, but no stamps. number 357 from a total edition of 615. One of the best reference sources of post-World War I Parisian theatre. Paris: Les Éditions Albert Lévy, 1931