Théatre Fémina : Spectacles de la Chauve-Souris de Nikita Balieff, Saison 1923.

Paris : Théatre Fémina Editeur, 1923. Large quarto (325 x 250 mm), original pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [28] pp, text by Joseph Kessel, with black-and-white photographic illustrations plus 6 colour plates of set designs by Nikolai Remisoff and Sergei Soudeïkine; a superb copy.

Programme for the 1923 Paris season of impresario Nikita Balieff’s touring theatre revue La Chauve-Souris (The Bat). Founded in Moscow in 1907, and based in Paris from 1917, Balieff’s troupe toured Europe, the United States and South Africa during the 1920s and early 1930s, achieving great popular and critical success. Its cabaret-style performances consisted of songs, dances, and sketches, most of which had been originally performed in Russia.