Intimite by Grigoriev, Boris - 1918

Potsdam: Müller, 1921. Texts by Oskar Bie, Pawel Barchan, Alexander Benois and Boris Grigoriew] illus. (part col.) 26 x 21 cm. 47 plates (4 in color); 27 text illustrations. Translated from the Russian into German. Orange and yellow cloth cover split along spine edges.

2022. Paperback. New. 750 pages. 9.00x7.50x2.25 inches.

Berlin: C. Efron, 1922. small quarto, approx. 160 pp., 47 plates, four of which are in color; original illustrated cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, else very good; text in Russian. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

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Petropolis [Berlin?], 1924. Ltd ed. in French. Hardcover. Near Fine. 61, [2]p. plus 28 leaves of plates which are printed on one side and seem to alternate with text leaves. Blue buckram on which lighter blue front and back paper panels have been mounted. 35 cm. Endpapers browned. Glassine tissue guards have some browning and a couple have corner creasing but all are present. French text. This French-language edition was limited to 175 copies, 125 of which were to be numbered 1-125 and the other 50 numbered I-L on the colophon page -- this copy is not numbered. Translator not identified. Grigoriev was a Russian painter and graphic artist.

London, 1924. Hardcover. Good. 30 illustrations, 29 of which are glued along top and at tip of lower corners (8 full-page color, 16 full-page black & white, and 5 much smaller black & white). The 30th illustration ("Waking Children") is full page in reddish brown and printed directly on a leaf. There are also a few small decorations in reddish brown, 100, [7]p. Original 1/4 vellum. 36cm. Moderate cover soil and wear. Backstrip snagged at top. Contents generally sound and clean although one illustration has split along lower corner where glued. The tissue guards are browned, a few are missing and a few others are wrinkled or partially gone. Copy No. 20 of an edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Grigoriev. Text portions by Louis Reau, Claire Sheridan, Andre Levinson, Claude Farrere and Andre Antoine.

Berlin: C. Efron 1922. (Small 4to) Very good, no dust jacket. Beige cloth printed with red and yellow illustration on both covers and spine and with vignette illustration in black on front cover. 47 full-page illustrations (4 in color). Lacks the front endpaper, and there is an owner inscription on the back of the frontispiece. The covers are lightly shelfworn. Rare. Text in Russian Language. (Art, Artists--Russia).

London, 1924. Special edition by order of Morris Gest. Grigoriev, Boris. Folio, 37 x 28 cm. Publisher's gilt boards, vellum spine and corners. 100, [3] pages, 2 leaves. With 29 brilliant color and black and white illustrations, tipped to mats and separated with tissue guards, one final full page plate bound in and numerous vignettes. Tissue guards browned, slightly affecting the mats, but not the plates, binding a little dust-soiled, otherwise fine. An unnumbered copy from a stated limitation of 500. Inscribed by the theatrical producer Morris Gest to Herbert Fleischhacker, a prominent San Francisco businessman. Gest brought Constantin Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre to America in 1923, and they toured repeatedly during the decade following. The illustrations include designs for "Boris Godounov," "Lower Depths," "Brothers Karamazov," "Cherry Orchard," from the company's repertory, as well as Grigoriev's monumental "Faces of Russia" cycle.

London, 1924. . First edition, limited edition of 500 copies, this copy hors serie; 4to, illustrated with 30 plates by Grigoriev with tissue guards; publisher's special binding for the owner of half vellum over boards, title gilt stamped to upper cover as well as 'The Moscow Art Theatre...Special Edition by Order of Morris Gest'. Grigoriev's wonderful work here printed specially for one of Broadway's most successful producers of the 1910s and 1920s. Numerous illustrations and tipped in reproductions of the artist's work are accompanied with essays by Louis Reau, Clare Sheridan, André Levinson, Claude Farrere and André Antoine.Although Grigoriev left Russia in 1918, the faces of Russian peasants continued to haunt him, and he worked tirelessly on this theme while living in France in the early 1920s. The result is an intense study of the faces of the Russian people; each portrait depicts the peasant in a uniquely harsh light, exposing the hardships of their lives through their rugged faces and… Read More

Fine example of the first English edition of Grigoriev's celebrated extended cycle of Russian portraits. Limited to 500 copies only, this one num. 7.
Faces of Russia started its life as Grigoriev's initial project, the album titled 'Raseya' (a slang word for peasant Russia), published in Petrograd in 1918. At the time, Grigoriev was already scandalously famous: in 1913 he was expelled from the St Petersburg Art Academy and invited to take part in 'Mir Iskusstva' exhibition; in 1916 he produced one of his iconic paintings – a portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 'Raseya', he presented harsh, Cubist-style portraits of Russian peasants – a stark contrast to the idealised image of the spiritual Russian peasant popular in the West at the time. However, the album was neither in line with the Bolshevik vision of the Russian peasant class.
In 1919 Grigoriev left Russia and settled in Europe, where he published the 2nd, expanded, edition of 'Raseya': it appeared in Berlin in 1921 in Russian and in 1922 in… Read More

Moscow, Russia: Unknown, 2000. Very Good condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 2000, Entirely in Cyrillic Russian. Light edgewear of glossy pictoral boards. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Moscow, Russia: Unknown, 2000. 820(73) : Very Good condition Hardcover Octavo with no dust jacket, 2000, Entirely in Cyrillic Russian. Light edgewear and the spine foot tips are chipped. Binding slightly cocked. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First U.S. edition with scarce wraparound band reading " 'DUTTON EDITION IS SUPERIOR'/ Harrison Salisbury - NEW YORK TIMES." This edition translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker whereas the edition published in the U.S. the same year by Frederick A. Praeger was translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley (the Praeger precedes this one per Fiene). Harrison E. Salisbury's January 22, 1963, review reads in part: "Of the two translations neither comes close to reproducing the rough vigor of the author's concentration camp slang .... However, Ralph Parker's version in the Dutton edition is superior to the patchwork thrown together by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley for Praeger. The most striking blooper of the Hayward-Hingley translation is to put in the mouths of the prisoners the phrase 'Comrade Warder.' The prisoners were forbidden ... to call the guards 'comrade' ...." 8vo light gray-green rough cloth boards stamped in green on front and spine; top edge stain… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Book is Good . There are about 22 pages with light pencil marks. 2 pages with single thin vertical crease near gutter - no effect to text - appears to be binding issue. Strong and sturdy binding that will lay flat but no damage. Very slight wear to cover corners and edges. Slight spine crimping. Few light areas of cover surface soiling. Faint store stock stamp on front fly leaf. Thin and light pen mark to front page ends - ends only. This scarce book is written in Russian except for the introduction which is in English. Marianna Poltorzatky was the Chairman for the Department of Russian at Vassar College. ; Modern Series in Foreign Languages; B&W illustrations and photographs; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 398 pages .

Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. Pis'ma. so vstupitel'nymi stat'iami i primechaniiami S. M. Solov'eva .. [et al.] Leningrad, Kolos, 1925. 1st. 12mo, later hardcover red cloth, gilt title "Alexander Blok - Letters" to spine. Pp 228, 1p ads. In Cyrillic. Pages age toned. Front free end paper missing, small tear without loss on last page of publishers ads. Book plate of Ian Grey, russian historian and author on front pastedown. Scarce.

Spiritual battle for the honor, holiness, glory and majesty of the Heavenly Queen. A 2nd ed. good- paperback (staple-bound), closed tears, soiling, stains FON stamp, & other defects on cov. & text as in image. *Abbot of the missionary monastery of the Resurrection of the Lord, missionary of the Holy Synod.

Iskusstvo, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Very good condition. Russian edition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows slight shelf wear. Slight scuffing on the edges and corners of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Moscow Academy Of Learning, Moscow, 1959; First Edition; 8vo, 437 pages; brown cloth; gilt titles. Scholarly study of the literary form of the Bulgarian language, with lengthy contributions by five specialists in the field. Edited by Samuil Borosovich Bernshtein. Text in Russian. Very Good Plus. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Bulgarian Academy Of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1956; 8vo, 538 pages; gray cloth; blue titles. Monumental bibliographical listing of nearly 6800 works published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1869 to 1953, organized sequentially by publication number and year, with a complete alphabetical index to all works cited. Very Good, clean and bright, binding tight and square, corners sharp. A small rectangular portion in the blank margin at the upper right corner of the title page, approximately 3/8" high by 2" long, has been clipped out, not affecting text on either side. Text in Bulgarian. A rare reference.