sergei obraztsov (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1957. First Edition. 135 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Dust jacket disintergrated and laid in front; Brown cloth boards, sunned/age-toned on spine, stained at base, a touch bumped on corners, green lettering and cover design intact; Pages age-toned, offsetting on endpapers, stamped on lfep, B&W plates; Binding tight. ; 7 x 8.8"; 255 pages.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. 16pp illustrated, 4to paper covers, London 1954. Very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. 1st Edition. 255 pages. Russian Puppeteer. Translated from Russian by Ralph Parker and Valentina Scott. Illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. Pages clean, good condition. Endpapers lightly yellowed. Previous owner's name top of ffep. Beige cloth illustrated with green/black and white figure on upper cover. Green title on spine. Corners lightly bumped. Great blue and black dust jacket illustrated in color on both covers. About an inch torn out at head of spine. Edges and corners worn. VG+/GOOD+. Book.

Hardback. 255pp 56 plates 4to Moscow n.d. *The celebrated Soviet puppeteer. VG in DW.

First edition thus: translated by Ralph Parker, Valentina Scott and Dorian Rottenberg. Royal octavo. 255 pages. Numerous monochrome photographs, mostly of the author's puppets. Pictorial cloth. Obraztsov, having begun his career as an actor at the Moscow Art Theatre, went on to establish puppetry as a serious art form in the USSR. He gradually refined his technique until he became skilled at puppeteering with bare hands, a fact which puts your humble cataloguer in mind of Philip Roth's marvellous Mickey Sabbath.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''To M. Karminski from S. Obraztsov - Moscow 10/viii 57''.Fine in very good, slightly chipped and rubbed dustwrapper.