Hurok Sol (54 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. minor wear and creasing; dust jacket torn with mylar cover.

wraps. For performance at the S.F. Opera House, May 31 thru June 5, 1958 Good to Very Good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Vintage souvenir program for the 1962-1963 season showcasing The Bolshoi, presented by Sol Hurok. B/w and color photographs of the ballet stars from the company as well as from the productions, including many of the classics (Swan Lake, Spartacus). Articles on the Bolshoi Ballet, history and traditions. Great vintage ads. Measures 9" x 12" with 56 pages. Some scuffing and minor tears on the cover, but contents is clean and intact. Due to size and weight of program, additional shipping charges may be required for all deliveries outside the United States.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Souvenir program of Russian folk dances and music from the former USSR and their various republics (Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, etc.). B/w photographs of the dances and from the production illustrate the program. Charming cover is in bright colors, depicting Russian folk dancers in costume; the artist is I. Aronson. Presented by Sol Hurok during the 1959-1960 season. Measures 9.5" x 12" with 30 pages. SALE PRICE.

Souvenir Program. 32pp, (9x12 inches), b&w and (a few) color photos. Very Good in stapled wrappers (softcover). Edges rubbed, light general wear, top corner a little bent, but not creased. Otherwise clean and tight, no tears or creases, no markings. History of the Black Watch, articles on the pipes, the tartan, the dancing, the band itself. The program has no publication information as such, so the date is taken from the greeting from Queen Elizabeth on page 4. It also notes that this is their second tour to the US and Canada.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition, first printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. DJ has moderate shelf rubbing with scuffing and bumping as well as smudging with tearing. Binding is moderately shaken. Endpages have moderate age-toning with smudging. Front free page has previous owners gift inscription. Page edges have moderate age-toning with scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Pamphlet. This is not a book. The schedule of dances for the Ballet Russe at the 51st Street Theatre, NYC, December 12, 1940 - January 8, 1941. The Ballet Russe performed for 15 weeks on Broadway between November 3, 1940 and January 12, 1941, following their fabled 1939-1940 Australia tour and before their 1941 Havana tour. This program, from the New York tour, featured such dances as Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides, Le Coq d'Or, Paganini, Prince Igor, Carnaval, Petrushka, Sheherazade, and Le Spectre de la Rose as well as David Lichine's Graduation Ball, which premiered during this Broadway run. Staple-bound, self-wrappers; 8 pages; b&w illustrations and photos; 4 x 5.5 inches. Condition: Very Good pamphlet with light soiling and light rubbing to the corners. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page). [12], 291 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed; a few small chips and several tears which have verso tape repairs; rear panel toned with some soiling and crease at upper right; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth; slight discoloration to boards. Blue top edge; two small faint stains to text block's bottom edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 32 pages; New York: Very Good. 1954. First Edition. 32 pages; Contents clean and secure in original decorative wrappers. Card laid-in: "With the Compliments / of the / Embassy of Japan / B. Yoshiro [Signed]" Measures 11 3/4" X 8 3/4" with die-cut fan pattern for front wrapper. Text is illustrated with wonderful photographs, drawings, etc. S. Hurok presents with the cooperation of H. I. H. Prince Takamatsu and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Choreographed by Masaya Fujima; Production Supervised by Hirosi Kawazoe, Yuji Ito and Michael Lombardi. Set Decoration by Kisaku Ito; Costume Design by Seison Maeda and Kiyokata Kaburagi; Scenis Consultant: Wolfgang Roth; Costume Consultant: Michi Weglyn. General Manager: Mae Frohman and Walter Prude; Company Manager: Edward Haas. Production Stage Manager: Dale Wasserman. Samisen: Katsuyoshiro Kineya; Koto, Samisen: Katsumaru Kineya and Umetaro Kiyomoto. Press Representative: Martin Feinstein; Advertising: Lawrence Weiner and Associates. .; Oriental Studies, Music and Performing Arts, Most Recent Listing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration on front cover shows a silhouetted man in the foreground and ballet dancers in the background. No date, circa 1950. 9" x 11 3/4." Unpaginated, sixteen pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light toning and tiny wrinkles. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight wrinkling, light age toning, slight wear to extremities, and two tiny stains on front. A Very Good copy. This is a promotional program for Roland Petit's Ballets de Paris, a French ballet company. Roland Petit (1924-2011) was a French ballet company director, dancer, and choreographer. He founded Ballets de Paris in May 1948. The following are some of the contents: introductory statement by Christian Dior (bilingual in French and English; remainder of text is in English); stories of the company's ballets (may be a partial repertory list); black-and-white photographic portrait illustrations (with brief biographical information) of Roland Petit, Renee Jeanmarie, Colette Marchand, Gordon Hamilton, Belinda Wright, Polajenko, and Serge Perrault; brief biographical information for some of the company's other dancers; and a few black-and-white stills from company productions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [New York]: [Hurok Attractions], 1954. [32] pp. 22 x 30 cm. Die cut paper wrappers in the shape of a fan, printed in gold and black. [1954], with schedule for 1954-1955 season on rear cover. Some rubbing and light soil to covers, with 4 x 10 mm green stain on front. Diagonal crease and torn upper corner to first/title page. Some light spots of foxing to inside of covers. Interiors otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound, with no signs of rusting to staples. Laid in are two theatre programs for The Azuma Kabuki Dancers and Musicians. One is from the Berkeley Concert Association and is dated April 4 and 5, 1956. The second program is from the Geary Theater in San Francisco, and is dated for May 17-29, 1954. Both are in excellent condition. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Hard Cover. First printing. FINE IN FINE, PRICE-CLIPPED DJ. NOT OFTEN SEEN THIS NICE.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; (14) pages; b&w illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (Musicians, Personal correspondence, Biography).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 16 pages, heavy gray paper wraps, string-bound at center fold.Program for her farewell tour for the United States. Many black-and-white photographic illustrations of Pavlova in various ballets. This brochure and Hurok's publicity uses the inconsistently transliterated Pavlowa rather than the usual Pavlova or German Pawlowa. Light soil to covers. Record # 408245.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, decorative wrappers, (38)pp. of text and photographs promoting Shankar's arrival in the West. This copy signed by Shankar beneath his portrait on p.(17). VG: mild external wear and soiling, binding solid, internals quite clean. A very presentable copy.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Owner's name stamped on endpapers and front pastedown. (impresarios, musicians, personal correspondence).

Stiff Illustrated Wrap. Condition: Good-. Marcel Vertès (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Folio. Unpaginated. Lavishly illustrated with photo reproductions and advertisements, of which four pages in color. Halftone color illustrated wrap, saddle stapled. Damp stains throughout, cupstains to the cover, edges rubbed and age toned, cover nearly split at the spine, date marked in ballpoint pen on the cover. Laid in loose leaf program for the 16 January 1943 performance at the Portland Public Auditorium: mellowed creases, date marked in ballpoint pen. Formed in New York in 1939 with Mikhail Mordkin's touring company and artists fleeing war in Europe, and renamed American Ballet Theatre in 1957. This tour presented by impresario Sol Hurok. On the Portland program: Anton Dolin and Peter Tchaikowsky's Princess Aurora, Pas de Quatre by Dolin and Cesare Pugni, Bluebeard by Michel Fokine and Jacques Offenbach, arranged and conducted by Antal Dorati, scenery and costumes by Marcel Vertès. Dancers include Irina Baronova, Anton Dolin, Miriam Golden, Antony Tudor, Borislav Runanine, and company co-founder Lucia Chase.The tour program includes artist portraits and biographies, advertisements, and color reproductions of Marc Chagall costume and set designs for Aleko Preserved in a clear archival pouch with acid-free backing.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Covers show rubbing, scuffing, creasing and fading. Edges show some chipping, scuffing, rubbing and creases. Spine shows some tearing. Pages are browned from age.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Description: 1 volume : 52 p. ; illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects: Leningradskif i gosudarstvennyf i akademicheskif i teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova. Ballet dancing. 1 Kg.

Flyer. Condition: Good. This handbill or window poster has much wear including a horizonatal crease, small tears and chips along with tape residue top and bottom. Overall G. This item is a small window poster or flyer for a performance by the great African-American singer, Marian Anderson. This flyer is not dated, but Anderson gave a concert in St. Cloud in 1942. Strong image of Anderson, whose career affected the Civil Rights Movement. ; B&W Photograph; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1 pages; ES fair.

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.