Introduction by Arnold Haskell (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Marks on front end paper and title page. Crease on front end paper. Tears, with paper loss, creases, scuffing and dust spotting on jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8 pp text with XCI illustrations in colour and b/w, gray cloth, gilt title. Cloth rubbed and marked, spine ends and corners scuffed, inscription to half title - sound study copy.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/FR. Black & White/Color Plates (illustrator). London, UK: Collins St. James Place. G/FR. (1947). . Cloth w/DJ. 91 plates . Sm 4to., unpaginated, DJ rubbed, chipped, frayed, toned, brittle, cover edges toned, fraying, writing on ffe, page toning .

Condition: Good. Sovraccoperta mancante. Evidenti segni del tempo alla copertina. Pagine brunite. **Per foto ed ulteriori informazioni contattateci** . Buono (Good). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gordon Anthony (illustrator). 1st Edition. Folio, vi + pp20 complete with the 96 tipped-in b/w photographic portraits of the dancers mounted on brown card. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers binding of cream cloth spine, with gilt titles, over royal blue cloth boards in good condition with a little shelf wear to top & tail of spine and tips of boards and a little marking to spine and boards. Inside except for some toning to endpapers all text pages and plates in very good clean and bright condition. Gordon Anthony was a British photographer, known particularly for his photographs of ballet and theatre in Britain becoming the portrait photographer to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford in 1933 with his photographs helping to make the Royal Ballet known across the world in the 1930s. This is a heavy book and may cost more postage overseas.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original full deep navy morocco binding with gilt title lettering to the spine, both boards with gilt ruled border, top edge gilt. 4to 11¼'' x 9''. Contains 222 printed pages of text with 8 colour plates and a collection of over 270 monochrome images by Baron Sterling Nahum, the official photographer for Sadler's Wells Ballet, London, and court photographer to the British Royal Family. Fox spotting to the end leaves, minor rubbing to the corners and in Very Good condition. Hand written in black ink opposite the half-title page 'This volume is number 18 of an edition limited to 50 copies specially bound for the author' and SIGNED 'Baron'. The Limited Edition of 150 copies is normally available within the trade, however, this specially bound copy rarely comes onto the open market, having been produced solely for family members and close friends of the author. Member of the P.B.F.A. BALLET & BALLERINAS.