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FALILEEV, Vadim Dmitrievich (1879-1948). V. Faliee

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Moscow and Petrograd: GIZ, 1923 [1922]. 96 pp., folio (280 x 220 mm). By Nikolai Ilich Romanov. Illustrated in color and black and white; tissue guards. Original tan wrappers. Condition: wrappers faded with a small closed tear at front, chipped at extremities and repaired at backstrip. One of 200 copies. [With:] Italiya. Graviury na linoleume [Italy. Engravings on Linoleum]. Moscow and Petrograd : GIZ, 1923. 16 pp., square 8vo (215 x 180 mm). 10 plates. Original tan wrappers within the original glassine jacket. Condition: light rubbing to extremities. One of 3000 copies. Falileev was an important Russian engraver and etcher of the first quarter of the twentieth century. He was the first of V. V. Mate's apprentices to engrave on linoleum. In 1923 he and his family emigrated to Stockholm and went on to Berlin. Although he spent the last part of his life in Rome, Falileev never renounced his Soviet citizenship. (2)

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