DANCE

Wellington: R. E. Owen, Government Printer, 1957. pp93. Tiny amount insect depredation top edge of front cover. Name in chidish hand on top of title page, & almost invisible on front cover. Internally very clean & tight. British, European & American folk dance, with diagrams & directions.. First Edition. Stapled Booklet. Very Good*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Allan Wingate, 1959. pp124. Boards bright, jacket unclipped.Some light fox & discolouration to eps& side exterior page edges. Jacket has faded spine & sparse light discolouration. Edgewear & v. tiny chips to to edge. Small neat pos & date on first free ep. Overall a nice looking copy. Frontis portrait of author by Cocteau. Illustrated with b/w photographs, many full-page platess of author.Autobiogrphy of member of Imperial Russian Ballet, star of Diaghilev's Monte Carlo Ballet Co. etc. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Plus - Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1982. An ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Front cover starting to pull away from the spine .Otherwise a tidy book considering its past life. 319pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex- Public Library. more information

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London Etc: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1951. pp79. Eps & title foxed, pos on first free & palish tanned strip, body of book clean. d/w clipped, loses at head/foot spine & adjacent, some tears, though you could keep the cover on & not be embarassed. Stories of 15 well-known ballets, told dramatically. Analysis of scores, 57 musical excerpts. notes on composers, choreographers and technical terms of ballet.. First Edition Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus-Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Barbara Gray. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: W. H. Allen, 1978. pp128. Book extremely good. Jacket clipped, 2 short tears at head of spine & 1 at top of back panel. Rub to corners. Edgewear, fold type creasing to bottom of jacket. A few unobtrusive marks. Still presentable. Attempts to demystify the world of dance, answers practical questions. Classical dance is not all there is, & not just for an elite.Illustrated with b/w photographs.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good - Near New/Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1970. pp48. Book has inscription on inside front cover; otherwise excellent. Unclipped jacket has 2' tear to top inside corner & various tears & losses to spine. "Nothing can be more inanimate than a text-book on ballet technique- except when written by Madame Karsavina.Madame Karsavina is a very rare artist. She has found a way to translate her balletic wisdom into prose." (Margot Fonteyn). Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1977. pp583 .Jacket in protective wrap, clipped. Foredges browned, with sparse foxing.some browning overlapping the very extreme edges of the eps 1 pale sellotape mark each on first & last free eps. 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet was originally planned as an Anglo-American adaptation of the German Friedrichs Ballettlexikon von A-Z, published in 1922 .But while the German version can still be recognised as a point of departure, the final product has turned out to possess an individuality all of its own. Not only has matter been cut which was of interest only to German-speaking readers and the focus shifted towards what the Anglo-American reader might be looking for. In addition there has been a general reconsideration of the distribution of emphasis, and a considerable number of new entries have been added..an attempt to cover the whole ballet scene, past and present, its personalities, works, companies, places of performance, and technical terms, with some consideration of modern dance, ethnic dance, and ballroom dance..also special entries for cities which have in one way or another played an important role in ballet history, for certain familiar literary subjects..dramatists and composers whose works have often been adapted for ballet..it is also the first English-language dictionary to provide bibliographical references, supplementing the individual entries..'.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London Etc: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1948. pp308. Book is clean tight & uninscribed. Unclipped jacket has inch-long tear on front lower corner, & some chipping at spine ends & corners. Overall, very presentable. A ballroom dancers handbookwith '72 diagrams and , photographs of the quickstep, waltz, foxtrot, tango etc.'. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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London: Barry and Jenkins, 1974. pp249. Clipped jacket, worn with abrasions. Book boards good, eps have considerable discolouration, & exterior page edges are foxed with some marks. Apart from faults described, the interior is otherwise clean & tight. Includes detailed descroptions of the most popular, and classic, ballroom dances, plus the story of how ballroom dancing developed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland: Penguin Books, 2005. pp253. Illustrated by the author. 'Picking up where his acclaimed Ghost Dance left off, Douglas Wright chronicles, after a series of bereavements, his descent into depression, despair and suicide. We meet the inhabitants of Haliburn House, a respite centre for people with HIV, and are given a rare, compassionate and sometimes hilarious glimpse of how those on the margins of our society contrive to live, love and die.' Douglas Wright is an acclaimed New Zealand dancer & choreographer.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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