- Backcover trifle soiled.
= One of 50 copies printed for members of the Vereeniging der Vijftig, this copy numb. "3". The final Zilverdistel publication.
- Upper outer corner sl. bumped. Frontwr. sl. foxed; foot of spine sl. dam.
= Zwart/ Hefting; Monguzzi p.16; Maan/ Van der Ree; p.14; Broos '70, p.70; Broos '96, p.44; Broos/ Hefting p.119; Purvis, ill. between p.122 and 123; Purvis/ De Jong p.164f; Forde p.26f; Dooijes p.94f; cf. Van Faassen; Brentjens, p.235ff: "Zoals Zwart zich al in 1930 had voorgenomen, krijgt het boekje inderdaad twee hoofdrolspelers: De Post en J. Zelf. Ze personifiëren respectievelijk het staatsbedrijf en de jeugdige lezer. (...) Hij vervaardigt de personages van opgerolde briefkaarten, papier, textiel en blik. (...) Hij laat ze balanceren op een vrachtwagen of op het dak van een gebouw. Hij plaatst ze achter een postloket, op een wolkendek of laat ze wegzakken in een telefoonboek. (...) In het boek duiken zo nu en dan ook ongewoon zoetsappige tekeningen op die niet de hand van Zwart maar van zijn assistent Dick Elffers verraden."
= One of 26 copies marked A to Z for collaborators, both w. extra copies of the etchings, handcol. by the artist, loosely inserted.
Tiessen, W. Vom Dienst am Autor und Leser. Über die Gestaltung meiner Bücher. Ibid., idem, 1987, 11,(2)p., printed in 500 copies signed by author, orig. wr., sm. folio. - AND 15 others, mainly sm. publications.
- Hinges strengthened w. tape. Wr. vaguely stained; sm. stamp on backwr.
= Rowell/ Wye 330. Nine plates showing portraits of Lenin and one with the landscape seen from Lenin's office window. The third leaf shows Lenin's printed signature. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
- Scratch and tiny dam. spot in frontwr. = Rowell/ Wye 143. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Final lvs. incl. backwr. sl. waterst. in upper corner.
= Rowell/ Wye 755 and p.215. On the frontwrapper a stylized portrait of actress Alisa Koonen. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
AND 1 other, publ. by Kinopechat': V. SHKLOVSKY, Ikh nastoyaschee (Moscow/ Leningrad, 1927, plates, orig. wr., sm. 8vo).
- Title-p. sl. yellowed. Binding trifle spotted.
= Contains chapters on i.a. Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, J.J.P. Oud and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Bookblock loose(ning); sl. yellowed.
- Fine copy. Spine sl. sunned and sl. worn along extremities.
= Frontwr. reads "Opéra Russe à Paris. Théatre des Champs Elysées".
Opéra privé de Paris. Première Saison. Paris, Publicité Commerciale & Téatrale, 1929, (36)p., tipped-in portrait, 8 tipped-in col. plates by A.K. KOROVINE, adverts, orig. col. (foxed) wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN, 4to. - AND 1 other similar: Opéra Russe à Paris. Printemps 1930 (tipped-in col. plates by B. BILINSKY, orig. wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN).
- Wr. sl. worn/ creases. = Frontwr. reads "Opéra Russe à Paris. Théatre des Champs Elysées".
Opéra privé de Paris. Première Saison. Ibid., Publicité Commerciale & Téatrale, 1929, (36)p., tipped-in portrait, 8 tipped-in col. plates by A.K. KOROVINE, adverts., orig. col. (foxed) wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN, 4to. - AND 1 other similar: Opéra Russe à Paris. Printemps 1930 (tipped-in col. plates by B. BILINSKY, orig. wr. by I.Y. BILIBIN).
- Flimies dam. along margins.
"Les Ballets Russes. Programme édité par Comoedia Illustré". Paris, Théatre du Chatelet, 1911, no pagination, profusely illustrated w. i.a. col. ills. and orig. wr. after L. BAKST, folio (frontwr. loose and frayed).
- Spine splitting. Backwr. lacks lower right corner.
= First edition of the original program for the 1916 American tour of the Ballets Russes, with 25 full-page illustrations, featuring 15 plates of Bakst's stage designs and costumes for the productions (14 full color including one double-page), nine duotones of the dancers in performance and frontispiece portrait of Diaghilev after Bakst.
AND 3 other early programs of the Ballets Russes, all w. small defects: "Théatre de l'Opéra. Douzième Saison Russe (...) Mai et Juin 1920", "Serge de Diaghileff. Season of Russian Ballet 1927 at the Princess Theatre" and "Théatre de l'Opéra. Ballets Russes Diaghilew. Décembre 1928- Janvier 1929".
- Wr. partly foxed and dam. along spine.
= Very rare. Nautically themed costumes, which were designed by Vertès for a ball organized during the "Grande semaine moto-nautique de Cannes 28 Aout - 5 Septembre 1934, organisée par le Yacht moteur Club de la Méditerranée". "Les maquettes de costumes dessinées par Vertès peuvent être exécutées rapidement par Madame Karinsky, la costumière des Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (...)" (introd.).
- Trifle yellowed. Some unobtrusive sm. stains on frontwr.
= All published. Contains contributions by i.a. N. Aseev, R. Ivnev, S. Spassky, S. Tretyakov, V. Khlebnikov and V. Shershenevitch. Scarce. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Creased and sl. fingersoiled. Wrappers loose, frayed and sl. dam.
= Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Artists and the Children's Book p.55.