Georges-Michel, Michel Ballets Russes: Histoire anecdotique, suivie d'un appendice et du Poème de Shéhérazade.

[Design on the front cover is that made by Picasso for the Chinese conjuror in Parade].

Paris, Ed. du Monde Nouveau, 1923.
8vo, 93, [3] pp., ill.

In original pictorial wrappers and in modern slipcase.
Near good condition, wrappers somewhat toned and fragile, rubbed, losses to spine, text block cracked, short tears to half title reenforced with tape, owner mark to half title, losses to back cover corners.

No. 458 of 485 numbered copies on Alfa paper.

This book, written by Michel Georges-Michel (1883–1985), a French painter, journalist, novelist, and translator, who worked with the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev from 1913 to 1929, is complemented by three drawings by Pablo Picasso, including a color illustration  featured on the cover and two full-page black-and-white reproductions, one of which is a portrait of Igor Stravinsky.