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BOMBERG, David. Russian Ballet. London: Hendersons [‘The Bomb Shop’], 1919.
First edition, rare, of this series of Vorticist lithographs, which struggled with reception at first. ‘The project was not a financial success, and Mendelson [who had funded the edition] was unable to sell the stock of copies of the booklet... until in the early 1960s he began to sell them intermittently, only then to have the majority of his copies destroyed in a fire’ (Tate website).
Octavo (217 x 140mm), half-title, 6 coloured lithographed plates (on wove) by Bomberg (some light spotting.) Original publisher's wrappers (spotted).
First edition, rare, of this series of Vorticist lithographs, which struggled with reception at first. ‘The project was not a financial success, and Mendelson [who had funded the edition] was unable to sell the stock of copies of the booklet... until in the early 1960s he began to sell them intermittently, only then to have the majority of his copies destroyed in a fire’ (Tate website).
Octavo (217 x 140mm), half-title, 6 coloured lithographed plates (on wove) by Bomberg (some light spotting.) Original publisher's wrappers (spotted).
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