THE FIRST AND STILL MOST DESIRABLE CATALOG RAISONNE OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN MODERN MYSTIC PAINTER
A V Yaremenko: Nicholai Konstantinovich Roerich, His Life and Creations During The Past Forty Years 1889-1929
Limited Edition copies of 500
This is the 38th from a limited edition of 500 copies
Signed by the author Alexander Vasilievich Yaremenko
New York: Central Book Trading Co.
1931
Complete suite of 119 mounted plates + frontispiece + cover illustration + picture of Roerich museum, of which 36 are in four colors and 86 in two colors or tinted half tones, printed on heavy stock paper and Nubian Paper, patterned end papers, original cloth-backed suede with mounted illustration (34 x 27 cm).
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