Ballet

London: C.W. Beaumont, 1930. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean but yellowed with age. Binding is loose but the pages are secure. Book shows some shelfwear. Reddish boards are faded and there is gold stamping on the spine. Corners are rubbed. Head and foot of spine are worn and frayed to the cardboard. Small spot of white paint on the spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good -/No Jacket. Illus. by Schwabe, Randolph. more information

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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. 326pp. Index. Stated First American Edition. Signed by Margot Fonteyn in black ink on half-title page; no inscription. White boards with gilt lettering/decorations. Illustrated with more than 350 color and B/W photographs, drawings, and paintings. Companion to PBS TV series. Together, the extraordinary charm and candor of Margot Fonteyn's writing and the quality and vast array of illustrative material insure that this book will stand as the book to introduce and reacquaint lovers of dance to history, to the magic of its past, present, and future. Pages are clean (no writing, underlining, or highlighting) but beginning to yellow with age. Outer page edges have a few small stains. Binding is tight with no cracks or breaks. Boards have some minor bumping to head/heel of spine and a small 1/4" gouge to lower front edge. Unclipped pictorial DJ is sunned with some shelfwear (chip to heel of spine, some minor nicking/creasing to edges and corners). Looks nice in protective mylar covering. This is not a remainder or ex-library. No previous owner markings. Nice copy. . Signed by Author. First American Edition. Oversized Hardcover. Good/Good -. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mylared. more information

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