Lifar Serge (411 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wear and tear to the edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Oversize paperback. Preface in French, commentary in back in French and English. The best thing I can say about the dust jacket is that it is still here, laid in, in pieces, brittle, and with a lot of chipping and edgewear. Book itself is in good condition, with fraying on top and bottom of spine, tiny chip on cover, closed tear across ffep, fold on title page, text pages are tanned and slightly brittle, photo pages are all very good, lightly tanned. Oversize book extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Allan Wingate, 1951. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Oversize paperback. Text in French. The best thing I can say about the dust jacket is that it is still here, laid in, in pieces, brittle, and with a lot of chipping and edgewear. Staple-bound, with cover just barely hanging on around the staples. Chipping on spine, tanning, and small corner fold on cover, first few pages have tiny corner folds, curling, pages tanned, photo pages are very good. Oversize book extra shipping charges will apply, especially for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope. …

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 399pp. Red buckram boards. Good copy virtually unworn, spine is faded, text is clean, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. None. Text is in French. Has edge/corner wear and chipping at spine ends, age discoloration. Full of dramatic b&w photographs fmc2%262D.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 332pp. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering to spiine. Spotting to upper portion of boards and top edges, book is otherwise clean and sound, inside and out, with no apparent wear, unclipped dust jacket is mildly worn and toned along top edge. Photo illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NO DUST JACKET, CLEAN COPY.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Repaired hinges. Cover wear. ; 328 pages.

Condition: New.

Condition: Very good. - Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & bumped. 64 pages. Profuse black-and-white & color illustrations. Very good. Among the contents of this performing arts magazine are interviews with the director and designer of the Liquid Theatre, and with Bulle Ogier; a piece on Kubrick's "The Clockwork Orange" by Bertrand Tavernier; and articles on Andy Warhol, Liliana Caviani and Jean-Pierre Mocky, and on erotic dance. The nude cover illustration is of Donan Jordan and Jane Forth in Andy Warhol's "Golddiggers 1971". The text is in French.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear. Content clean and bright , pen fep, front gutter cracked, 399pp with B&W illustrations. No DJ.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 84pp texts and catalogue of the collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum; 7 colour, 175 b/w illus. From the library of Richard Buckle.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. London: Sotheby's, May 1984. Softcover, fine condition, with prices realized and erratum slip laid in. With 228 works of art, manuscripts, and memorabilia catalogued, many illustrated in color and b&w, from the greatest period of Ballet in the twentieth century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover12 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches, 54 pages. Text entirely in French. Handsome full page ads for luxury products. Covers have some edgewear. Light four by four inch dampstain on rear cover. Pages clean. Stamp of previous owner, Richard Warner, on initial ad. Article by Lifar "L'opera centre mondial la danse". No date of publication my guess about 1951.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Burgundy boards with illust.unclipped jacket; Book is agetoned discoloured with light foxing on page edges, back hinge cracked. There is a fair bit of staining on back board and back endboards but text is unmarked; Jacket is intact some chips/tears but no big tears or missing pieces quite soiled; 556 pages with index, illust.by b/w photos throughout; A bio of one who is considered the father of the modern Russian Ballet, written by a dancer who came under his direction in the 1920's.…

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (ballet, dance, dancing, biography) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In-12, broché, Bon Etat.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition, 2nd reprint (1945). A very good book, in a fair DW; some repairs to rear and other slight nicks. Serge Diaghilev: His Life His Work His Legend: An Intimate Biography was written by the French dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar, who was the last star dancer and protégé of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The book was first published in 1940 and offers a unique, personal perspective on the legendary impresario.…

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 212 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, more notable to rear. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text is in French. Original publisher's brown cardstock wrappers with staple binding. Original black-and-white paper dust jacket included. Dust jacket is protected with a type of plastic or Mylar film (which is attached to the dust jacket with an adhesive). Front panel of dust jacket shows a black-and-white photographic illustration of dancer Irene Skorik and the following words: "Masques, Danse, No. 2, Imagier Bernand." Black lettering on white dust jacket spine. 9" x 12." Eighty-seven pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Five additional pages in back. Pages are very clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning, a former owner's bookplate tipped in on inside of front cover ("Ex Libris Ra Contu"), and a few bumps along bottom edges of last few pages. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight discoloration and slight tearing along staples (covers slightly torn from staples). Dust jacket is clean and intact overall but has a section measuring 3 1/2" x 2" at top that looks torn (piece is still attached). Dust jacket is clean and intact overall but has light age toning, some wrinkling on front, discoloration from the Mylar or plastic film's adhesive, and much rippling and wrinkling on back panel. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. This is a photo catalogue or viewbook paying tribute to French ballet and French ballet dancers. The booklet is principally composed of black-and-white photographic illustrations of French ballet dancers and production stills. The pages with the illustrations have no accompanying captions. Table des Images in back provides brief information for the illustrations. Preface by Serge Lifar. Text and Commentaries by Fernand Divoire. Some of the dancers shown in the illustrations: Irene Skorik, Michel Renault, Max Bozzoni, Roland Petit, Leslie Caron, Serge Lifar, and Yvette Chauvire. Some of the productions portrayed in the illustrations: Le Revenant, Jeux des Cartes, Le Prince Igor, Les Sylphides, Chevalier et la Damoiselle, Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, and Recontre.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Small previous owners name and date on the front end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, first impression. 212pp, plus 36pp of black and white plate illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed and pushed at spine ends. Upper text block edge dull. A hint of spotting on endpapers. In its original dust wrapper, toned all over and heavily on spine, rubbed, chipped and rubbed at edges, with minor loss at crumbling spine ends. Serge Lifar was the leading proponent of classical ballet in the mid-20th century; and in this volume he writes for practitioners, talking through step by step his conception of a ballet dancer's training, while analysing classical positions and movements. Lancelot, Monique (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 1954. Hardcover. Clean copy in original cloth covers with gilt title to spine. Covers showing some light shelf wear. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.