LAURENCIN (Marie) and DIAGHILEW (Serge de). Les Biches. Paris, Quatre chemins, 1924. 2 volumes in-4 in paperback with coloured illustrated covers by Marie Laurencin and joint slipcase, first edition of this work devoted to the ballet Les Biches by Bronislava Nijinska first performed on 6 January 1924 by Serge de Diaghilev's Ballets Russes to music by Francis Poulenc and with sets and costumes designed by Marie Laurencin. The first volume includes a portrait of Nijinska after a drawing by Jean Cocteau, an article by Cocteau, a portrait of Francis Poulenc after Marie Laurencin, an article by Darius Milhaud, a reproduction of Poulenc's score and 14 colour reproductions of drawings and paintings by Marie Laurencin. The second volume is devoted to the stage production and includes a photographic portrait of Marie Laurencin based on a Man Ray photograph and 23 photographs by Georges Detaille depicting the various artists in the ballet. Limited edition of 335 numbered copies, this one n°23, one of the 60 first copies on Hollande Van Gelder. Covers partly foxed, discharge on endpapers. Provenance: Collection Anne Marie Berger