BALIEFF NIKITA (1877-1936) Balieff’s ‘Chauve-Souris’. Paris: M. de Brunoff, 1920s

16 pp.; 32 x 25 cm. In English. In the publisher’s wrapper designed by V. Shukhaev. Advertisements, colour illustrations after designs by Sudeikin, Remisoff and Benois. In good condition. Rubbing and soiling to the wrapper, wrapper partly detached, traces of glue along the spine. Nikita Fyodorovich Balieff (born Mkrtich Balyan; 1877-1936) was an actor, director and compère, founder and director of the Moscow parody theatre ‘Letuchaya Mysh’’ (The Bat), the French Théâtre de la Chauve-Souris and the Broadway Chauve-Souris.