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Portrety [Portraits]. .
Petersburg: “Petropolis,” 1922. 172pp., 4to (330 x 240 mm). Numerous plates (some colored) or illustrations (some full-page), after Annenkov. Original magenta wrappers, lettered in black on the upper cover and backstrip, original cream thin card dust jacket, the upper cover with a semi-abstract design in grey, black and mulberry incorporating the title and Annenkov’s name in French, the lower cover with a related but simpler design in black, both after Annenkov. Condition : some light marginal toning to the book block; restoration to the margins of the wrappers with some small tears and chips, the dust-jacket backed onto matching paper with restoration to tears and voids particularly at the head and foot of the spine. out-of-series copy of a limited edition of 900, in the rare original pictorial dust jacket . With contributions by Evgenii Ivanovich Zamyatin, Mikhail Nikolaevich Kuzmin and Mikhail Vasilevich Babenchikov. Among the many writers and artists depicted in this famous collection of modernist portraits are Akhmatova, Altman, Benois, Chukovsky, Gorky, Khudosevich, Kuzmin, Pasternak, Remizov, Sologub, H. G. Wells, Zamyatin and Blok on his deathbed.