Mon théâtre à Moscou
The story
Henriette Pascar’s 1930 memoir of avant-garde Moscow children’s theatre is represented by numbered copy 30 from the preferred 100-copy deluxe paper issue.
The first edition was issued in 675 numbered copies, the first hundred on tinted Lafuma vélin pur fil, a superior paper choice for bibliophiles. Pascar established an influential experimental theatre for children in Moscow around 1920, and recounts its pioneering approach to stagecraft, acting, and performance. Her illustrated narrative, published in Paris by G. Crès, is a primary witness to the development of modern Russian children’s theatre and its European reception. The book includes a portrait of Pascar by Alexandre Iacovleff and was published with a suite of theatrical photographs and illustrations, including color plates.
Details
- Date
- 1930
- Publisher
- G. Crès et Cie, Paris
- Edition
- 1930 first edition; copy No. 30 of 100 on vélin pur fil teinté Lafuma (part of 675-copy total issue)
- Binding
- other: Custom or later decorative tan-and-green geometric hard binding with matching green/ochre paisley endpapers; precise covering material and binder not identified.
- Condition
- Later custom-style tan-and-green geometric decorative hard binding with green/gold paisley endpapers; covers have light rubs, spots and corner/edge wear, and page edges show aging. A loose handwritten greeting card dated 1970 is present. Binding maker and covering materials unverified from photography. Interior appears generally sound in pictured openings, but a full leaf/plate collation has not been completed (published with 20 plates, four in color).
- Presentation note
- 11/24/70. Happy today, [recipient name unclear], my pet! Love, Marguerite xxxx
