THE MAGIC OF DANCE by Fonteyn, Margot - 1979

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0394507789; Very minor soil on the white, unworn, sound binding. Very minor foxing on the front and back flyleafs. Contents are almost as new. . Small piece missing from DJ's front panel's bottom edge, else Very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ. This is a large book; Priority mail is not recommended. ; First American Edition. 1979. DANCE. 8" X 11". White boards, bright gold spine lettering, Margot's initials in gold on the front cover. 326pp. Index. Scores of b/w photos, quite a few full-color photos. Not a history! The book contains Margot's own understanding of people and influences, and of patterns that can be observed repeating themselves - from which, maybe, one can get a hint of what might come in the future. The story concerns people more than anythng else. Some of them are famous, some forgotten, but all in their time and place had magic. ...Frederick Ashton, Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, August Bournonville, Serge Diaghilev, Chardles-Louis Didelot, Isadora Duncan, Michael Fokine, Robeet Helpmann, Lev Ivanov, Tamara Karsavina, Mathilde Kschessinskaya, Alicia Markokva, Leonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Marius Petipa, Arthur Saint-Leon, Igor Stravinsky, Filippo Taglioni, Marie Taglioni, Ninette de Valois, Auguste Vestris, Maria Medina Vigano. ; 11" X 8 .