Fokine: Memoires of a Ballet Master by Fokine, Michel (Chujoy, Anatole – Editor) - 1961

Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Foreword by author, editor's note, introduction by Vitale Fokine (translator) chronology, list of illustrations, appendix and index. Peacock illustrated end pages. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs. 1/4 black coloured back strip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 light blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed titles to the front panel. Pale yellow coloured tint to the top text edge. Illustrated dustwrapper, same illustrations as for end pages, with green, yellow and black coloured titles to the front panel and green, yellow and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. The posthumous memoirs of the Russian ballet choreographer Michel Fokine, one of the 20th century's most innovative and influential choreographers of ballet – particularly modern ballet.  Rubbing of the book edges and a little bumping to the top book corners. The back strip has a few marks. Age toning and faint foxing of the text block edges with the pages being crisp and white. Creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with a couple of small tears to the top edge of the rear panel along with some insect damage. Sunning to the back strip with patchy sunning to the front and rear panel's. Browning to the verso.  Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], VII - XVI, [2], 3 - 318, [2] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Ballet; Dance. Inventory No: 0287690. .