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[BALLETS RUSSES, BAKST, BENOIS, IDA RUBINSTEIN]. "Idiot" (with I. Rubinstein) at the Theatre de Vaudeville, Mai 1929, Paris.

Imprimerie Maquet, Paris.
32 x 24,5 cm; [18] pp.: ill. Saddle stitch binding with yellow twisted cord. Gloss-coated stock text block includes laid paper leaves.
Laid paper wrappers with portrait of I. Rubinstein by Bakst.
On the inside 2 full-page hand-colored ill. by Benois (set design for the ballet "Idiot" and costume designs of Rogojin and Ferdychtchenko) and 1 full-page portrait of I. Rubinstein as Antigone by Bakst.
On the first page pensil note (French, illegible). 1 loosely inserted newspaper article "The Painting " about Bakst, undated.
Wrappers yellowed, with foxing. Small tear of the bottom of the front cover (ca. 1,5 cm). Text block is slightly soiled and yellowed. In good condition.