Ballets (108 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Leon Bakst (illustrator). A very good copy of the softcover edition. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine, moderate wear at the extremities. Slight damp-stain to upper edge of the last 20 or so pages of the volume; no mustiness to the volume. A sharp copy. [Please note: Due to the size and weight of the volume extra shipping may be required depending on the destination and speed of delivery requested. Quotations gladly provided.].

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ex-library with usual stampings, etc. Hardcover rebound in library binding, no dj with light scuffing to covers. Contents clean overall with a couple of stains. 36 pages, b&w illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Magazine. 68p., 8x10.75 inches, articles, reviews, interviews, books, mvies, music, travel fashion, ads, very good glossy magazine in pictorial wraps. marcos Martinez on Why America needs Black Pride Celebrations. Interview with the first Out gay Presidential candidate (a fellow Hoosier!) Travel reporting from Australia, NY, LA, Portugal, Spain & France.

Paper Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Souvenir programme with striking black and red covers and b&w illustrations. 16pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 172 pages. Illustrated. David Charlton "'A maitre d'orchestre.conducts': new and old evidence on French practice" / Rebecca Harris-Warrick "From score into sound: questions of scoring in Lully's ballets" / Lionel Sawkins "Doucement and legerement: tempo in french Baroque music" / Tula Giannini "Jacques Hotteterre le Romain and his father, Martin" / Greer Garden "A link between opera and cantata in France: tonal design in the music of Andre Campra" / Graham Sadler "Vincent d'Indy and the Rameau Oeuvres completes: a case of forgery?" / David Fuller "A new French harpsichord source of the mid-18th century with an Eckard connection" / Frederick Neumann "Dots and strokes in Mozart" / William Malloch "The minuets of Haydn and Mozart: goblins or elephants?" / John Milsom "Byrd on record: an anniversary survey" / Christopher Page "The English a cappella renaissance".

Magazine. 130p. + 86p. of Gay Times Directory, 8.25x11.5 inches, articles, reviews, interviews, profiles, fashion, film, photos, corner of front cover clipped otherwise a very good glossy gay fashion & news magazine in pictorial wraps. Also: Les Ballets Trockadero, Molly Dollies, Sex Change, Jamaica, Leicester etc.

Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill printed both sides on semi-glossy stock. Publicity handbill for the all-male ballet troupe with cover photo by John L. Murphy two dancers in a dying swan pose and reviews from the New Yorker and LA Times, back panel with two smaller b&w photos of the company with dozens of review quotes and performance schedule below.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Original paper wrappers, stapled.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Original paper wrappers, stapled.

Dance performance flier, 8 x 22 inches; very good condition; folded 3 times into 4 sections; a mailed copy with address on rear. Will be mailed folded.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Folding sheet. List of productions.

Condition: Bueno. Rafael Marquina sobre Antonia Mercé, La Argentina, los Ballets Russes de Montecarlo, Serge Lifar, Manuel de Falla, etc.

No Binding. Condition: Good. These are 2 different poster/announcements for Les Grands Ballets De Loony; each size: 14 x 8-1/2 inches; creases in each. but overall, in GOOD COND.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio. Folding sheet. Synopsis.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo. Original card covers. 29 b/w illusts, 139 item catalogue.

paperback. Condition: Good. Published by Nicolas Pub. Co., New York, [no date listed, circa 1935]. Paper covers, [84] pp (unnumbered). In good condition. Full Illustrated paper covers have a 1" tear to the top edge of the back cover and several other smaller nicks and tears and creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. Staple bound. Interior pages are lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Souvenir program for the company's 1936-37 American tour. It was led by Colonel W. de Basil, who had acquired the rights to the Ballets Russes name after the original company's dissolution in 1929. Includes Synopses of the ballets (revised by Arnold L. Haskell, 1935, with some notes); essay entitled "History of Col. W. de Basil's Ballets russes" by Edwin Evans; Cover wrappers illustrated by Nathalie Gontcharoval. Also includes color illustrations for scenery by E. Lourie for "Choreartium", Scenery for "Sheherazade" by Leon Bakst and "Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur" (The Good-Humoured Ladies"), Scenery and Costumes by Jean Hugo for "Les Cent Baisers ("A Hundred Kisses"), Scenery and costumes by Nathalie Gontcharova for "Noces", "L'oiseau de feu" ("The fire bird") and "Contes de Fee", Curtain by Andre Derain for La Concurrence", Scenery and costumes by M. Larionow for "Soleil de nuit" ("Midnight sun") and Scenery and Costumes by Jena Lurcat for "Jardin Public". Also includes portraits of the company and cast, including, Leonide Massine, Lubov Tchernicheva, Bronislave Nijinska, Irina Baranova, David Lichine, Alexandra Danilova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Jurek Shabelevsky, Roland Guerard, and Tamara Toumanova. Advertisements throughout.Includes portraits of the company and cast.

Magazine. 60p., including covers, 8.75x12 inches, text in French, illustrated with b&w photos, art, ads and comics, very good gay French weekly in stapled color pictorial wraps. The homophile weekly named by Michel Foucault which literally means "Gay foot" is a homophone of guêpier, which means a hornet's nest or, figuratively, a trap or pitfall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original paper wrappers. Portraits, adverts. Thumbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original paper wrappers. Portraits, adverts. Thumbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original paper wrappers. Portraits, adverts. Thumbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original paper wrappers. Portraits, adverts. Thumbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated. R H Wilenski "William Blake As Artist" / James H Hyde "The Four Parts Of The World As Represented In Old-Time Pageants And Ballets, Part 1" / Ernest Newman "The Plain Man And His Music-IX, The Case Of Beethoven" / Bernard Bevan "Danzig" / Watson Lyle "The Charm Of Old Violins" / Murray Adams-Acton "Domestic Architecture And Decoration-XVI" / Malcolm C Salaman "A Gossip About Prints" / Andre Salmon "Letter From Paris" / Oscar Bie "Letter From Berlin" (K1).

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Very Good quarto 52 + 77pp., 77col. & b/w plates, Translated from the French by Harry Melvill. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy.

Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. Dust Jacket Condition: Très bon. Montréal, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, 2012, couverture cartonnée sous jaquette illustrée, environ 16 X 31 cm, 239 pages, abondamment illustré en N&B et aussi en couleur. Le livre est comme neuf, sans rien à signaler qui soit digne de mention. La jaquette est comme neuve aussi avec toutefois une petite déchirure de 1 cm au coin supérieur du premier rabat et une très petite usure au coin inférieur du même. (AVERTISSEMENT ; Les frais d'envoi internationaux donnés par Abebooks sont souvent erronés veuillez obligatoirement m'écrire pour connaître les frais d'envoi réels pour l'extérieur du Canada AVANT de passer votre commande sinon vous pourriez avoir de mauvaises surprises. Paiement de préférence par Paypal).

Ephemera. [48p.] 9x12 inches, review by Croce, stories of the ballets, illustrated with b&w photos of classic ballet dancers and full-page photos of the Trockadero dancers, bios, lightly-worn program in stapled decorative wraps.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Nice copy quarto 52 + 77pp., 77col. & b/w plates, frontis, Translated from the French by Harry Melvill.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. White oblong-shaped hardbound book without dust jacket. On the front cover are the letters, "BJM;" on the back cover appear the letters, "XL." Corners slightly bumped. No markings noted.

in-quarto, 118 pp., illustrations noir et blanc et couleurs, br Cronologias de ballets y opera-ballets producidos por Serge Diaghilev, de 1909 à 1929Articulos de Boris Kochno, Richard Buckle, Maria Isabel de Falla, Rafael Alberti, Très bon état.

. In-8 reliure pleine toile éditeur, jaquette photo. Traduit par P. Thévenon. Nombreuses photographies hors texte. E.O.