Propert, The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, London, 1921, half cloth

PROPERT, WALTER A.

THE RUSSIAN BALLET IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1909-1920, WITH A CHAPTER ON THE MUSIC BY EUGÈNE GOOSSENS. LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, 1921

4to (325 x 252mm.), copy no. 388 of 500 copies for British distribution, half-title, frontispiece portrait of Diaghilev, 4 plates in the text, 56 leaves of tipped-in illustrations (some coloured) on card mounts, after stage designs and costumes by Bakst, Benois, Goncharova, Larionov, Picasso, Matisse, Roerich and others, decorative title and vignettes in the text by Goncharova, original cream cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, hinges weak, extremities slightly rubbed