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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First edition (stated). Fine, fresh, unread copy (dot top edge of the text block) in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 430 pp. with chronology, index. Illustrated with black and white photographs and color reproductions. Jerome Robbins was one of the most important choreographers of the 20th century. He became legendary as the king of Broadway, the most sought-after director-choreographer and show doctor, who, begging in 1944, gave shape to plays such as "On The Town", "The King and I", "Peter Pan", "The Pajama Game", "West Side Story", "Funny Girl", "Fiddler an the Roof" and others. He won four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards (the oprecursor to the Tonys), an Oscar, and an Emmy. He, however, shocked and betrayed many he loved and worked with by naming names to McCarthy's HUAC. Sondheim called him "the olny genius I've ever met" but others thought him inarticulate, seeming to deal primarily in the realm of the kinetic and visual.…