Grandier, Lydia Landon

Souvenir de Ballet; Performance Photographs by Costantine

San Diego, Hester & Smith, Inc. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 124pp. Red buckram cloth, black lettering. Fading mainly to spine, litght soil to cover, bit of foxing to endpapers, contents mildly age-toned. Active performance photographs from the 1940s. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004355

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet Stage Theater

Grigorovich, Yu., Vanslov, V.

Thr Bolshoi Ballet; Ballet Company of the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR

Neptune City, NJ, Paganiniana Publications, Inc. 1984. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. 317pp. Pictorial boards. Very good condition, one corner bumped. Dust jacket also very good. Concise commentary and profuse illustrations in both color and black and white. Translated from the Russian by Yuri Sviridov. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004470

Catalogue: Dance, Performing Arts, Photography

Guest, Ivor

Adeline Genée; A Lifetime of Ballet Under Six Reigns

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 207pp Blue cloth boards, gilt spine lettering. Thd slightest of fading to spine, otherwise ibook is n near fine condition. Dust jacket has light edgewear and 3/4 inch tear at top. Near Fine/Good.

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Book number: 003362

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: "Empire Theatre" London Ballet

Guest, Ivor

The Romantic Ballet in Paris

Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1966. Fifth American Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 314pp. Purple cloth. Very good, minor bumps to lower board, slight offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and sound. Dust jacket is unclipped and moderately worn along edges. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 003361

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet France Taglioni Elssler Grisi

Hart, John

The Royal Ballet in Performance

New York, Coward-McCann Inc. 1959. First American Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 160pp. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Very good condition, endpapers mildly toned, contents are clean, binding is tight. Many photos of The Royal Ballet in action. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003792

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet Theatre "The Sleeping Beauty"

Haskell, Arnold L.

Ballet Decade

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1956. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 224pp. No date, c1956. Red cloth. Book is in near fine condition, unworn, contents mildly age-toned. Dust jacket is missing a 2 inch piece at bottom, and several smaller fragments, edgewear and light soil. Illustrated with 4 color plates and 112 photographs. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 003359

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet Ballerinas Dancers

Haskell, Arnold L.

Ballet Panorama By BAron

New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc. 1954. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 222pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Book is clean and unworn, contents age-toned, binding is tight. Unclipped dust jacket, is worn, scuffed, lightly soiled, age-darkened. Wonderful photos by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum). Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 004361

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Photography, Dance

Keywords: Ballet Fonteyn Shearer Poole Blair Magallanes

Haskell, Arnold L.

The Beauty of Ballet

London, Max Parrish, 1961. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 125pp. Red cloth , gilt spine lettering. Very good book in very good unclipped dust jacket. Wonderful evocative black and white photography. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004354

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Photography, Dance

Keywords: Ballet

Holmes, Olive

Motion Arrested: Dance Reviews of H. T. Parker

Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1982. 1st Edition, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 0819550582. 325pp. Blue cloth, silver spine lettering. Book and dust jacket are in near fine unused condition. A unique record of descriptions of great dance performances during the early part of the 20th centvury, by H.T. Parker writing for the Boston Evening Transcript. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 004752

Catalogue: Dance, Performing Arts, Occult

Keywords: Ballet Dancers Ballerinas Critiques Theatre 0819550582

Johnson, A.E.

The Russian Ballet

Boston & New York, Houghton and Mifflin Company, 1913. First American Edition, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. René Bull. 240pp. Cream colored buckram, gilt lettering and decoration to cover and spine, color frontispiece with tissue-guard, black and white and color illustrations throughout. Spine slightly darkened, occasional light soiling to boards, endpapers age-toned, text and plates are clean, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A handsome book with lovely illusrations, and concise and pertinent text. New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004740

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance, Illustrated

Keywords: Ballet Theater Ballerinas Choreography Dancers

Karsavina, Tamara

Theatre Street

New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1931. 1st Edition, 64mo - up to 3" tall. Hardcover. 341pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Cover nearly unworn, spine darkened, endpapers darkened, inscription and date (1931) on front endpaper, text is clean and sound. Forward by J.M. Barrie. Laid-in is a 1978 New York Times obituary of Ms. Karsavina. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004588

Catalogue: Dance, Performing Arts, Biography

Keywords: Ballet Ballerina Karsavina Diaghilev Fokine Theatre

Killian, Hannes (Photography); Bland Alexander et al.

Internationales Ballett Auf Deutschen Bühnen

München, Prestel-Verlag, 1968. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 143pp. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine lettering, text is in German and English. Cover is clean and unworn, contents clean and mildly toned. Dust jacket is mildly age-toned and has a one half-inch clean tear. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 003804

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet Germany Danse

Lazzarini, John and Roberta

Pavlova : Repertoire of a Legend

New York, Schirmer Books, 1980. Second Printing, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover. 0028719700. 224pp. Purple cloth, gilt lettering. A fine copy in a very clean and unblemished dust jacket. Includes a chronological listing of repertoire and bibliography, Photo illustrations throughout in sepia tone. As New/Near Fine.

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Book number: 001843

Catalogue: Biography, Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet 0028719700

Lido, Serge (Photographer)

Etoiles et Ballets Soviétiques

Paris, Éditions Vilo, 1968. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. 80pp + 7pp commentaires. Text in French. Book in very sound condition, dust jacket has 1 inch tear repaired on rear panel, some mild fading to spine and edges, and is otherwise intact. Photos throughout with commentary of each photo at end of Très bon état. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 002932

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance

Keywords: Ballet USSR Russia Danse

Lieven, Peter

The Birth of Ballets-Russes

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1956. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Alexandre Benois. 377pp. Green cloth. Book is clean and solid, virtually unworn, spine faded but readable, interior is clean and unmarked. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004749

Catalogue: Performing Arts, Dance, Music

Keywords: Choreography Ballet Russia Nijinsky Fokine