Pair Skating and Dancing on Ice (Signed)
by Dench, Robert, and Rosemarie Stewart
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Signed: Prentice-Hall. Very Good+. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in black cloth boards, silver gilt text, clean and bright, mild shelf wear to edges. . SIGNED by Dench and Stewart on front endpage ("To Esme, With our very best wishes, Rosemarie Stewart, Bob Dench, 'Ice Capades of 1944'") . Bookplate of Esme L. Peake on front pastedown. No dust jacket. Book is firm in binding, clean interior. llustrated with instructional diagrams and "action" photos of the authors, a husband-and-wife team who toured with the Ice Capades through the 1940s and 1950s after Stewart made a name for herself in the 1936 winter Olympics. Together they helped establish and popularize the idea of pair skating. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 157 pages; Signed by All Authors .
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- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72417
- Title
- Pair Skating and Dancing on Ice (Signed)
- Author
- Dench, Robert, and Rosemarie Stewart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- Signed
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Ice Capades 1930s, ice skating instructions, signed by Robert Dench, , signed by Rosemarie Stewart,
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