NOTE: This fantastic set is on SALE for a short time with a huge 50% DISCOUNT. Buy it NOW because the price will increase without advance notice. (1) The "Firebird" Zhar Ptitsa - literary artistic journal published by Russian emigrees in 1921-1926 in Berlin and Paris. A complete set of fourteen published issues. Illustrated throughout, including copious color plates mounted on leaves with printed captions. It was extremely influential in its day, containing contributions of many luminaries and all the members of the Mir Iskustssva or "World of Art Group." It was perhaps the most famous of post-revolutionary art journals, whose contributors threw new light on the development of Russian art at the begining of 20th century. (2) This set is very special. It is from the library of Prince Alexander Golitzen. He fled Russia with his family after the Bolshevik Revolution. After receiving his degree in architecture, he became a production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies. He worked for MGM and Universal. He started his art direction career in Los Angeles, as an assistant to Alexander Toluboff, an art director for MGM. He started working with Walter Wanger (a producer) in 1939 and they worked together for many movies. Starting in 1942, and continuing for the next 30 years, he became a unit art director, and later a supervising art director at Universal, overseeing dozens of productions. Alexander Golitzen earned an Oscar nomination for Foreign Correspondent (1940), and received three Oscars for Phantom of the Opera in 1943, Spartacus in 1960 and To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Sundown (1941), Arabian Nights (1942), The Climax (1944), Flower Drum Song (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962), Gambit (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Sweet Charity (1969), Airport (1970), and Earthquake (1974). He served on the Academy's board of directors for several years. ???????????-?????????????? ??????