Danzig Baldaev Illus (1 results)

8vo, 396pp. Original cloth in pale pink illustrated dustwrapper, sightly worn and chipped toward top edge. An handbook to the motifs and symbology of Russian criminal tattoos, comprising several hundred b/w illustrated repoduction of real Russian criminal tattoos, compiled and illustrated by prison attendant Danzig Baldeav, who further provides a foreword, in addition to numerous full-page b/w photographic portraits of several of the tattoo's human bearers. A very good to near-fine copy.…