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[New York]: Metropolitan Ballet Company, 1916.

Price: $400.00

About the item

First edition. With fourteen full page color plates by Leon Bakst (one doublepage), eight duotone photo plates of dancers in the company in costume, engraved and printed by The Sackett & Whilhelms Comaany. 1 vols. 12-5 x 9.5 inches. String-sewn into stiff printed gilt embossed wrappers, including original advert tipped to inside rear cover. Covers at bit ragged at edges, lower corner of front wrapper missing. Very good.

Item #301509

A fragile souvenir of the first United States tour in 1916 of Diaghileff's now legendary Ballet Russe.