Author: RIORDAN, JAMES
Title: Favorite Stories of the Ballet
Description: New York: Checkerboard Pr, 1984. Hardcover. ISBN: 156288252X. Illustrated by Victor Ambrus. Color Illustrations; 8 1/4 x 11 1/2"; 122 pages; Hard cover is glazed boards; light rubbing, scuffing, bumping. DJ matches cover, slight rubbing, scuffing, bumping, shelf wear; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with mostly color pictures. 'An illustrated retelling of seven stories that have been the basis of famous ballets with notes on the origins of each story and on the music composed for them. Includes "Petrushka," "Swan Lake," "Cinderella," "Giselle," "The Nutcracker," "Stone Flower," and "Sleeping Beauty." Oversized.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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