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BRIUSOV, Valerii Yakolevich (1873-1924) (editor).

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[Moscow: "Skorpion"], January 1904-December 1909. 6 vols. in 13 parts. Folio (235 x 180 mm each). Rebound in contemporary gilt-lettered leather-backed marbled boards with most of the original decorated wrappers bound in. Condition: 1904 bound out of sequence but complete; Nos. 8, 10 and 11, 1906 lacking back wrappers; No. 9, 1906 misbound with pp. 79-84 between pp. 66 and 67 but no loss; Nos. 2-6, 1908 and 8-12, 1909 lacking wrappers. Provenance: V. Rodevich (bookplates in all but the first volume). complete run of one of the most important russian art and literary journals ever published. With contributions by Konstantin Balmont, Andrei Belyi, Aleksandr Blok, Kornei Chukovsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Zaida Gippius ("Anton Krainii"), Nikolai Gumilev, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Aleksei Remizov, Fedor Sologub, Vladimir Solovev, Aleksei Tolstoi and others. Graphics by Léon Bakst, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, James Ensor, Nikolai Feofiltakov, Dmitrii Mitrokhin, Leonid Pasternak, Paul Signac, Konstantin Somov, Sergei Sudeikin, Mikhail Vrubel and others. Also translations of French and other foreign literature by Maurice Maeterlinck, Frederich Nietsche, Oscar Wilde and others. Kuzmin's pioneering "coming out" novel Krylya [Wings] took up the November 1906 issue; his Kuranty liubvi [The Chimes of Love] appeared in December 1909 with the four illustrations by Sudeikin and Feofiltakov. Some issues were devoted to specific artists: Aubrey Beardsley (November 1905); Will H. Bradley (February 1907); Umberto Brunelleschi (March 1905); Georges DeFeure (June 1907); Feofiltakov (January 1908); Mikhail Larionov (August 1909); T. Surge Moore (November 1907); Odilon Redon (April and May 1904); Nicholas Roerich (August 1905); and Sudeikin (March 1907). (13)

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