1812/6097

Jar-Ptitza. Russische Monatsschrift für Kunst und Literatur [Firebird. A Monthly Russian Art and Literary Journal], nos. #1,2, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. Berlin: Dr. Selle & Co. 1921–22. Folio. Text predominantly cyrillic, plates and illustr. throughout, incl. tipped-in colour plates with printed captions, advertisements. With publisher's stiff colour pictorial frontwrappers. Frontwrappers with narrow margins, loss of text. Otherwise in fine condition. Bound in one later half cloth binding with calligraped titel on spine.

Jar-Ptitza (Fire-Bird) was a Russian emigre literary magazine published in Berlin in 14 numbers between August 1921 and January 1926. It was printed on three kinds of paper and offered illustrations by Russian artists. Compiled by Russian émigrés in Berlin (hence the appearance of some German text), notable contributors included Bakst, Diaghilev, Benois, Goncharova, Bilibin, Larionov, Somov, and members of Mir Iskusstva

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