Ballet: A Complete Guide to Appreciation - History, Aesthetics, Ballets, Dancers [Signed]

Floridly SIGNED in full by author & renowned English ballet critic in black ink on half-title page: "Arnold L. Haskell". Illustrated in b&w. Includes glossary, bibliography, plus index. "The first complete guide to ballet; its history, its theory, notes on the leading personalities and creators of modern ballet, studies of individual ballets and of some contemporary dancers, illustrated with sixteen pages of photogravure and decorations by Kay Ambrose. Ballet, written specially for this series by the foremost living writer on the subject, is written in a simple direct manner." A Pelican Special. First published July 1938, this copy is the July 1938 reprint (same month as the first edition). Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. Slight handling wear, mild shelfwear, light spotting, marginal toning, inner flap of cover detached (but laid in), otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 220pp. Scarce signed copy. SB-84.