EVREINOV, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1879-1953). Teatr dlya sebya. [Theatre for oneself]. St Petersburg: First Female Printing House for Butkovskaya, [1915-1917]. 3 volumes, 8° (229 x 173 mm). Partly UNOPENED, numerous letterpress and lithographed illustrations, some in colour, by Nikolai Kul'bin and Yuri Annenkov. (Slight sunbrowning.) Original printed wrappers with one coloured illustration mounted on each upper cover (vol. 1 with small tears at extremities, vol. 3 with one corner torn away and spine torn at foot and head). Provenance : bookseller 'Staraya Kniga; LenKniga' (label on inside front cover of vol. 1). An important theatrical essay by the director of Vera Komissarzhevskaya's Dramatic Theatre in St. Petersburg, where he succeeded Meyerhold. Annenkov's famous cubist style is recognizable in vol. 2 while the futurist Kul'bin illustrated vol. 1 and vol. 3 just before his early death in March 1917. Bibliographies do not agree on the publication date. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 97; Heyller 107 (imperfect). (3)
EVREINOV, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1879-1953). Teatr dlya sebya. [Theatre for oneself]. St Petersburg: First Female Printing House for Butkovskaya, [1915-1917]. 3 volumes, 8° (229 x 173 mm). Partly UNOPENED, numerous letterpress and lithographed illustrations, some in colour, by Nikolai Kul'bin and Yuri Annenkov. (Slight sunbrowning.) Original printed wrappers with one coloured illustration mounted on each upper cover (vol. 1 with small tears at extremities, vol. 3 with one corner torn away and spine torn at foot and head). Provenance : bookseller 'Staraya Kniga; LenKniga' (label on inside front cover of vol. 1). An important theatrical essay by the director of Vera Komissarzhevskaya's Dramatic Theatre in St. Petersburg, where he succeeded Meyerhold. Annenkov's famous cubist style is recognizable in vol. 2 while the futurist Kul'bin illustrated vol. 1 and vol. 3 just before his early death in March 1917. Bibliographies do not agree on the publication date. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 97; Heyller 107 (imperfect). (3)
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