Old Bookshelf: Biography, Performing Arts
found: 7 books

 
Beaumont, Cyril W.
Margot Fonteyn
London, C.W. Beaumont, 1948. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 20pp. Blue cloth, paper label to front board. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on copyright page. Very good condition with mild age-toning. Dust jacket is chipped, soiled, missing large piece along bottom rear panel, price-clipped, no loss of text. Concise biography of the renown ballerina, with Cyril Beaumont's signature. Very Good/Poor.
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Book number: 004360
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 65 | £UK 56.75 | JP¥ 11088]
Keywords: Ballet "Sadlers Wells" "Royal Ballet"

 
Fonteyn, Margot
Matgot Fonteyn Autobiography
New YOrk, Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. 266, ixpp. Black cloth, gilt lettering, SIGNED by author on title page. Book is in unworn, like-new condition. Unclipped dust jacket is in very good condition. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Book number: 004589
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.75 | £UK 19 | JP¥ 3696]
Keywords: Ballet Ballerina Choreography Ashton "deValois" Arias

 
Ford, James L.
The Story of Du Barry
New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1902. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 288pp. Purple cloth gilt lettering and decoration. Spine sunned, corners rubbed, spine ends chipped, some internal separation, text is clean. Tipped-in bookplate on front endpaper reads : "En Souvenir Opening of the Belasco Theatre, September 29th, 1902, Special limited edition for private distribution No. 198. With Compliments of Leslie Carter, David Belasco". Signed by Belasco and his leading lady , Leslie Carter. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Ms. Carter and many other illustrations. Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 002648
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 26 | £UK 22.75 | JP¥ 4435]
Keywords: Theater

 
Kemble, Frances Anne
Further Records 1848-1883; A Series of Letters
New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1891. First American Edition. Hardcover. 380pp. Blue cloth, white floral design, gilt decoration. Ex-library, spiine slightly sunned, light wear to edges, contents age-toned but clean, a few signatures starting, owner's name on rear endpaper. Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 002040
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.5 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2957]
Keywords: Author

 
Lifar, Serge
Ma Vie From Kiev to Kiev; An Autobiography Translated by James Holman Mason
New York and Cleveland, The World PUblishing Company, 1970. 1st Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 332pp. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering to spiine. Spotting to upper portion of boards and top edges, book is otherwise clean and sound, inside and out, with no apparent wear, unclipped dust jacket is mildly worn and toned along top edge. Photo illustrations. Good/Very Good.
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Book number: 004748
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.75 | £UK 19 | JP¥ 3696]
Keywords: Ballet4 Sancers Diaghilev Choreography

 
Lifar, Serge
Serge Diaghilev; His Life, HIs Work, His Legend
399pp. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940. 1st Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 399pp. Red buckram boards. Good copy virtually unworn, spine is faded, text is clean, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Book number: 004750
USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 19.25 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 3252]
Keywords: Choreography Ballet "Ballets Russes" Impresario

 
Alicia Markova
Markova Remembers
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1986. First American Edition, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. 0316546259. 182pp. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering. Near fine condition in unclipped near fine dust jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Book number: 004738
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 13 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 2218]
Keywords: Ballet Ballerina Theater Performance 0316546259

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