Search Results: Performance Art and Dance from Design Books

Writers Publishing House, 2004. This is a fine copy bound in illustrated flexible boards. Signed and inscribed in black marker, by the artist, Ai Jing, on the front endpaper. Most text in CHINESE. Illustrated throughout in color with photographs on almost every page. 9" square, about 210 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Artist.. Hard Cover. Fine.

Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art,, 1983. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. This copy once belonged to the dance archivist, David Vaughan, and bears his signature and the date of 1982, Boston on the half title=page. Otherwise completely clean throughout. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston from November 9, 1982 to January 8, 1983. Essays by David Vaughan, David Ross, Marianne Martin, Iris M. Fanger and Deborah Jowitt. Illustrated throughout in black & white + color frontispiece. Chronology. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 119 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Hatje Cantz, 2009. This is a fine hardcover copy without dust jacket as issued with no wear at all. Cover spine a little rubbed. Completely clean. Anthology of essays edited by Christopher Eamon and Stan Douglas. Illustrated in color and black & white. 10" high X 7" wide, 191 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine.

Privately Printed, 1942. This is a fine hardcover copy, privately bound, of a number of pamphlets and catalogs written by Emanuel Winternitz, the first curator of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There is a table of contents which lists 17 different small papers or pamphlets on a variety of musical subjects, most published in the 1940's and 1960's. The most recent publication date is 1961. We can send a scan of the table of contents, if interested please email us.11" high X 8" wide. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Fine.

Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2012. This is a near fine hardcover copy in burgundy silk cloth covers with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Illustrated throughout with Henry Leutwyler's photographs of the New York City Ballet. Illustrated in color and black & white. 12" high X 9" wide. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1937. This is a very good hardcover copy in the original publisher's red cloth binding with cream cloth spine lettered in gilt. Gilt now faded. Scattered foxing. Introduction and notes by Arnold Haskell. Illustrated throughout in black & white with Gordon Anthony's tipped-in photographs of 1930's ballet luminaries. Anthony photographed the de Basil Ballet, the Ballet Joos, the Vic-Wells Ballet, 13" high X 10" wide. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Benjamin Blom Inc., 1966. This is a very good hardcover copy with a good to very good dust jacket. The jacket is complete, but toned or sunned. Completely clean inside. Illustrated in black & white. This is the Benjamin Blom 1966 reprint of the 1936 original published by H. W. Wilson & Co. 10" high X 7" wide, 229 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with only light wear. Signed by the author, Birgit Nilsson, in a big bold hand on the title-page and inscribed to a colleague. Illustrated in black & white. 11" high X 10" wide, 127 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Participant Press, , 2009. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. SIGNED by the author Laura Parnes, in ink, on the front endpaper, and inscribed to a colleague who helped with the production. Otherwise completely clean. Illustrated in color throughout. 12" high X 8" wide, 71 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Fine.

Cambridge at the University Press, 1994. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean. The spine is not creased, binding firm. Not illustrated. 9" high X 6" wide, 168 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Robson Books Ltd, 1987. This is a near fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket, not sunned or price-clipped, with almost no wear, Small tape or sticker residue rectangle on inside front cover, otherwise completely clean and free of marks. Glossary. 10" high X 8" wide, 300 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

London: Calder and Boyars , 1975. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. This is a reprint of Heriot's 1956 original. 10 black & white illustrations. Bibliography. 8" high X 5" wide, 243 pages. . Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Sotheby's, 1979. This is a very good softcover two volume set (complete) with almost no wear. Completely clean, no marks to lots or illustrations. These are sale catalogs for auctions held at Sotheby's in London. Part 1, July 16-17, 1979. Sale code: "CHOREA", 542 lots. Part 2: November 12, 1979. Sale code: "COLE", 193 lots. Both volumes have the "Estimates" sheets. Part 1 also has the Prices Realized sheets laid in. Both volumes illustrated in black & white. Part 2 also has a color plate section. 10" high X 7" wide. This set will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

London/New York: Halton & Truscott Smith/Minton, Balch & Company, 1924. This is a very good hardcover copy in blue bevelled polished cloth boards, decorated and ruled in gilt with just light wear. Top page-edge gilt. Very clean inside and out. (Some spotting to front endpaper). A small discreet bookplate on inside front cover. 3 color plates + 72 black & white plates + 7 drawings in the text. 12" high X 9" wide, 54 pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. A short date notation in ink on the front cover upper left corner, otherwise completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby Parke Bernet on December 15, 1977. Sale number: 4063. The sale consisted of ballet and theater material. 127 lots in the sale. All illustrated, some color. Prices realized sheet included. 9" square. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Berlin: Volksverband Der Bucherfreunde Wegweiser-Verlag G.M.B.H., 1925. This is a very good hardcover copy in salmon and gray marbled paper-covered boards and leather spine printed in gilt, with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Text in German. Illustrated with 32 monochrome plates. This is art historian, von Boehn's history of the dance from the ancient world to the 19th century. 8" high 6" wide, 266 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Munchen: Delphin Verlag, 1920. This is a good only hardcover copy in the decorated gray cloth covers. Some loose pages. Clean outside. Inside the endpapers are very acidic and browned, the text pages are better paper, still browned around the edges though. There is a small previous owner school stamp to the title-page. Text in German. There are 24 sepia photogravures of dancers including Sent M'ahesa (several images), Ronny Johansson, Valeska Gert, Lucy Kieselhausen, Clotilde von Derp, Edith von Schrenck, Niddy Jumpekoven, Ymelda Mendelberg and others. Various photographers including Lowy and Erfurth. 9" high X 7" wide, 125 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Stuttgart: Verlag Von Julius Hoffmann, 1913. This is a very good two volume hardcover set in the publisher's original brown paper-covered boards decorated in gilt with a vignette of a bust of Beethoven on a pedestal on the front covers. Very clean inside and out. A few short repaired tears to the cloth spine and hinges of one volume. Small chip to corner of one of the front boards. Text in German. 8" high X 6" wide, 295 & 364 pages. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Hunter College Art Gallery, 1984. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at Hunter College Art Gallery from May 16 to June 20, 1984. Essay by Maurice Berger. Artists included Robert Morris, Laurie Anderson, and Robert Longo. Checklist. Illustrated in black & white. 8" square, 20 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Universe Books, 1971. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped, and two tiny closed tears to the top edge, otherwise fine. The book is very clean inside and out. The text discusses the precursors to George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, and Merce Cunningham, but is focussed on them and their successors, up to the late 1960's. Illustrated in black & white with 91 plates. An appendix, "Sources of quotations" gives bibliographical information. 4to, 10" high X 6" wide, 160 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.