Diaghilev Observed by Critics in England and the United States 1911-1929 by Macdonald, Nesta - 1975

New York: Delta Book / Dell Publishing. Very Good-. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 0385297602 . Book is Very Good - (minus). First Edition with complete number line August 1989. Tight and sturdy binding. Clean and unmarked text. Very light bumping and wear to cover corners and edges. Top edge front cover and pages to page 15 have slight 1/2 inch or less bend mark. Very slight page edge tanning. Front cover front edge has very slight and thin vertical surface glue remnant. Back cover bottom corner has bend and light diagonal crease to cover. Published for the first time for the 50th Anniversary of the original 1939 film. ; Trade PB; B&W photographs; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 155 pages .

RACINE. Jean, Théatre de Jean Racine. Notice et annotations par Henri Clouard. Paris, Bibliotheque Larousse, cc 1928. 8vo, 3 books bound in 2 volumes. Half leather on marble boards, gilt titles to spines, gilt device of Orando Laborando [Rugby School] to front. Top edge gilt/ Decorative print endpapers, school presentation label laid on front pastedown. " Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy/Scholae Rugbeiensis Alumno/ Studiis Galbeis/ Feliciter Coeptis/MDCCCXXX". Neat signature mark of W W Vaughan. Vol1 pp247, Vol2 247, Vol 3 pp246. French Text. Bindings little bumped at edges. All pages and illustrations in tight and clean order throughout. William Wyamar Vaughan educated at Rugby and then became Headmaster between 1921-1931. Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy was educated at Rugby and became a notable expert author and teacher of language, phonetics and pronunciation. An attractive pair of books with an interesting provenance.

Paris: Garnier Frères. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. M. Valvérane. 418pp. No date, circa 1890s. Numerous illustrations including 8 in color. Nombreuses illustrations, 8 en couleurs. Technique par Mme. Berthe Bernay, Notation Musicale par MM. Francis Casadesus et Jules Maugué. Blue multi-color pictorial boards, gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, contents age-toned. A magnificent Victorian binding of a musical operatic scene, typical of the Belle-Époque era of Parisian night life.

The Island King.
Harold Garstin.
Chappell.
1922.
Inscribed by Peter Hawthorne, who wrote the book and lyrics.

A musical comedy.
Produced ta the Adelphi Theatre lasting 160 performances.

Front inner hinge loose.
Spine worn at top and bottom.
167 pp.
28 x 22 cms.


No other copies currently around for sale. A copy is in the collection of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum and Stanford University Library.

Wakefield Press, 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Fine.Tours to Australia and New Zealand during the 1930s by de Basil's Ballets Russes mark a watershed in the cultural life of the two nations. Local artists rejoiced in the opportunity to learn about European high art firsthand, while audiences and the public were jolted from the conservatism that shrouded the post-Depression Antipodes. .

Paris: Garnier Frères. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. M. Valvérane. 418pp. No date, circa 1890s. Numerous illustrations including 8 in color. Nombreuses illustrations, 8 en couleurs. Technique par Mme. Berthe Bernay, Notation Musicale par MM. Francis Casadesus et Jules Maugué. Blue multi-color pictorial boards, gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, contents age-toned. A magnificent Victorian binding of a musical operatic scene, typical of the Belle-Époque era of Parisian night life.

The Island King.
Harold Garstin.
Chappell.
1922.
Inscribed by Peter Hawthorne, who wrote the book and lyrics.

A musical comedy.
Produced ta the Adelphi Theatre lasting 160 performances.

Front inner hinge loose.
Spine worn at top and bottom.
167 pp.
28 x 22 cms.


No other copies currently around for sale. A copy is in the collection of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum and Stanford University Library.

Wakefield Press, 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Fine.Tours to Australia and New Zealand during the 1930s by de Basil's Ballets Russes mark a watershed in the cultural life of the two nations. Local artists rejoiced in the opportunity to learn about European high art firsthand, while audiences and the public were jolted from the conservatism that shrouded the post-Depression Antipodes. .

London, New York: William Heinemann Ltd./Doubleday Page & Co., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Arthur Rackham. 160pp, 34 plates with captioned tisue-guards. Grey cloth, black lettering. Corners lightly rubbed, spine faded and mottled and very readable, contents age-toned, all Rackham plates are very sound, former owner's bookplate on front free endpaper.

London: C.W. Beaumont, 1922. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Randolph Schwabe et al. 149pp. Decorative patterned boards, tan buckram spine, paper spine label. One of 230 copies printed and numbered 121 to 350 of which this is No. 132. 17 full page drawings including several hand-colored, and 15 sepia photos Very light wear, spine slightly darkened, contents mildly age-toned, preliminary and last pages lightly foxed, text and illustrations overall in sound condition. Translated from the Russian by H. De Vere Beauclerk and Nadia Evrenov, and edited by Cyril W. Beaumont.