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Seen top right is an original wrapper from one of the original 14 parts (in 13) of a complete bound set of Zhar-Ptitsa, Jar Ptitsa, a short-lived trilingual revue of Russian art and literature published in Paris and Berlin in the years 1921-26, that made £9500, and bottom right, part of a bound volume of programmes issued for the first and second seasons (1929-30) of the Ballet Russe performances in Paris, which made £4000.