Online Auction 026 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
"Now in the West," by Nikolai Nikitin – Leningrad-Moscow, 1924 – Cover Illustrated by Yury Annenkov, 1924
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Сейчас на Западе. Берлин – Рур – Лондон [Now in the West, Berlin - Ruhr – London], by Nikolay Nikolayevich Nikitin. Leningrad-Moscow (St. Petersburg-Moscow): Petrograd, 1924. Russian. Cover illustration: Yury Annenkov.
Travelogue by Nikitin following a visit to the West. The cover illustration, featuring a portrait of the author, is the work of Russian artist Yury Annenkov (1889-1974). This likeness also appears in "Portraits," Annenkov's well-known book, printed two years earlier in St. Petersburg.
138, [6] pp., 20.5 cm. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes. Tears and creases to edges of cover and edges of some leaves. Paper label glued to front cover.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
Travelogue by Nikitin following a visit to the West. The cover illustration, featuring a portrait of the author, is the work of Russian artist Yury Annenkov (1889-1974). This likeness also appears in "Portraits," Annenkov's well-known book, printed two years earlier in St. Petersburg.
138, [6] pp., 20.5 cm. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes. Tears and creases to edges of cover and edges of some leaves. Paper label glued to front cover.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
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