Object description GRIGORIEV, BORIS (GRIGORJEFF). Raseya. Potsdam, Müller - Berlin, S. Efron, 1922. 4to (257x203 mm). With contributions by A. N. Tolstoy, A. Shaikevitch, B. Grigoriev and Alexandre Benois. With 44 plates and many illustrations, all by Grigoriev (portraits of Russian peasantry). Publisher's original pictorial cloth, partly worn, partly warped covers, spine faded, some damages at top. Some notes in pencil on first free endpaper. The Russian Avant-Garde book 38. First edition published in St. Petersburg 1918. Grigoriev (1886-1939), Russian avant-garde artist and writer, friend of Anna Akhamatova. C. Efron, Berlin - 1922. (Small 4to) Very good, no dust jacket. Beige cloth printed with red and yellow illustration on both covers and spine and with vignette illustration in black on front cover. 47 full-page illustrations (4 in color). Lacks the front endpaper, and there is an owner inscription on the back of the frontispiece. The covers are lightly shelfworn. Rare. Text in Russian Language. (Art, Artists--Russia)