Bowen Vera (13 results)

Condition: New. In English. Sharma, Ishika; Bowen, Cassandra (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Rebound. (ballet, history, dancing) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. 228 pp , map as frontispiece, brown cloth gilt title to spine. Slight faded to cloth otherwise clean and sound , no dust wrapper.

first edition, ex-library, hardcover octavo (VG) d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6". x, 289pp. Book presents nicely with price-clipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with toning to covers and creasing, chipping, and several open and closed tears to corners and edges. Sunning to spine. Gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in black and white. Toning to gutters of endpapers. Bookseller's ticket to rear paste-down. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Diaghilev Ballet existed from 1909 to 1929; and from its beginningto its end Serge Grigoriev acted as régisseur-that is to say he was responsible for every aspect of the venture save its finance. In theearly 1950s he began reading back among the "logs" of the Ballet'smany seasons, and decided that he would write what no one elsecould write-the story of Diaghilev's extraordinary enterprise as seenby one of its major participants. His book offers a chronology of the Ballet's history, beginning withthe first preparations in St. Petersburg, through triumphs and setbacks in Paris, disaster in the United States, revolution in Portugal, tothe last phase when, cut off from Russia, the Ballet found an official home in Monte Carlo. Almost without exception, the leading European practitioners of music and painting came to collaborate with Diaghilev. Add the names of the dancers, and virtually all the famous figures in theartistic world of the period find a place in Grigoriev's record. Of Diaghilev himself-the strange genius behind this fabulous adventure, the creative artist who could only create in collaboration with dancer-choreographers-a vivid portrait emerges. He underwent every kind of fortune, good and bad, deserved andundeserved, finally refusing to regard himself as a sick man, gambling with death and losing his stake.(Publisher).…

Condition: New. Print on Demand. Sharma, Ishika; Bowen, Cassandra (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Sharma, Ishika; Bowen, Cassandra (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Seven illustrations of the biographical subjects on black-and-white plates. Bowen a critically acclaimed prolific author of novels, supernatural, horror, ghosts, and historical fiction, was also highly praised for her many insightful and adept historical and biographical writings. This collection of six famous rulers biographies comprises: Frederic II of Hohenstaufen; Louis II; Dom Sebastia, King of Portugual and Algarve; Gustavus Adolphus II, King of Sweden; Carlos II, of Spain; and Maurice De Saxe, Marechal General de France. Art decco-style bookplate to the inside front end-paper, several mild grey stain droplets to the spine, tears to the fore-edge of the contents page due to rough page-opening, else very good in red satin linen with blind embossed publisher motif to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles to the spine; lacking a dust jacket. Octavo; 361 pages; index.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Sharma, Ishika; Bowen, Cassandra (illustrator).

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover volume with dust jacket. 289 pages. Gray cloth boards with lettering on spine. White dust jacket with color illustration. Jacket shows usual chipping to edges and corners, but remains in Very Good condition. Binding is tight and strong. Includes a black and white facsimile of the first program issued by the Ballet. SIGNED by the translator, with a short gift presentation, on front free endpaper. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Grey cloth; black stamped label with white type and border to spine. Original illustrated dust jacket, unclipped, sterling price intact, mylar protected. 19 b&w plates; including frontis and 5 page foldout of the programme of the first public performance of the Diaghilev Ballet 18th May, 1909. Spine sunned, some soiling to jacket with small tear to head of spine and flap fold. Inside clean. A very good copy.…