Published by Thames and Hudson, London., 1972
Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 338 plates, 75 in colour. Colour illustration on frontis piece. Very faint 1cm by 1cm circular stain on half title and corresponding on neighbouring page. Blue cloth boards with gilt impression, near fine. Dj is very good indeed. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".