W a Propert (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor wear/soiling to covers. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large hardback; no jacket; unmarked; no bent or torn pp.; boards, fine.

Hardcover. Brown cloth, gold lettering, no dj, well rubbed and spotted, cover a bit loose, pages lightly yellowed. Picture Book; 16648.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The book "The Russian Ballet 1921-1929" by W.A. Propert is a historical account of the Ballets Russes during the period from 1921 to 1929. It serves as a companion volume to the author's earlier work, ""The Russian Ballet In Western Europe, 1909-1920,"" and provides a detailed history of the company during its later years. The book includes a complete list of ballets performed by the Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1929, along with 48 photographic plates that capture scenes from various ballets, including a frontispiece portrait of Serge Diaghilev. The Ballets Russes, founded by Sergei Diaghilev, was an influential ballet company that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia, where the Revolution disrupted society, and after its initial Paris season, it had no formal ties there. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes is widely regarded as the most influential ballet company of the 20th century, promoting groundbreaking artistic collaborations among young choreographers, composers, designers, and dancers. This book is in good condition with just a few brown spots on a few of the pages, the cover is slightly worn, but for its age, it is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Over-sized hardback book (no dust jacket) titled THE RUSSIAN BALLET IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1909-1920 by W.A.Propert. With a chapter on the music by Eugene Goossens and sixty-three illustrations from original drawings. Originally published by John Lane in 1921 this is a reissue published by Benjamin Blom in 1972. Boards show moderate rubbing/scuffing - bookplate on front flyleaf with embossed mark on lower corner of half-title page. International shipping will require additional charge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-1-bottom-L) rareviewbooks Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 63 illustrations from original drawings (illustrator). 1st Edition. A 10-X-13-inch Folio, quarter-bound in ivory cloth over marbled boards, Top Edge gilt and with gilt titling to spine, hand-numbered 174 of the first edition of 450 copies for sale in the United States. 132 pp. including Index and a chapter on the music by Eugene Goossens, followed by 57 pp. of heavy gray stock to which have been loosely attached 63 illustrations, mostly of scene and costume design, mostly in color, including 2 by Matisse and nine by Picasso. Reduced from $1,295.

With an illustrated title page printed in red and black and decorations in the text by N. Gontcharova, five black and white portraits including frontispiece with tissue guards, and 66 illustrations tipped-in on 55 leaves of brown card, many in colour. Limited to Five Hundred Copies for sale in Great Britain, of which this is number 213. 4to. [333 x 265 x 43 mm]. [1], xv, [4], 132 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter white cloth with marbled paper sides, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, with plain endleaves. (Spine and corners worn, gilt faded). The occasional light spotting and small mark. Small holes to the early leaves. Illustrated title page with detached tissue guard, two tissue guards with small marginal tears. A good copy. Propert describes this work as the 'story of what the Ballet has done, and of the chain of happy accidents that led to its birth and even made it possible' (p.ix). In this highly illustrated volume, the plates represent the work of the main artists who contributed to the early days of the Ballets Russes: V. Serov, J. E. Blanche, Pablo Picasso, Glyn Philpot, A.R.A., Leon Bakst, A. Benois, A. Derain, I. Fedorovsky, A. Golovin, N. Gontcharova, M. Larionov, Henri Matisse, N. Roerich, J. M. Sert, and S. Soudeikine.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1400grams, ISBN:

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. No date, presumed First Edition. Cover: dark green cloth on boards with gilt titles; moderate soiling. Spine: slightly faded; wear and pieces missing to head & foot of spine, 2cm piece missing to frontside of spine edge, couple of surface splits. Small bumping and light tiny wear to boards fore corner tips. Edges: browning, old foxing. Eps: age discolouring and touch old foxing. Frontis: b/w photograph of Diaghilev. Most pages very margins with thin old , now browned, foxing/ discolouring. 103p plus large following section on b/w photographs. Binding is VG. Dj: only the front jacket and flap. Edges with many small tears and chips. Light dusting of soiling and rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition (NAP; Greenberg= NAP). 'In memory of Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghileff and in fulfillment of a promise made to him in 1929 this brief record of an uncompleted decade has been written.' You can see the covers in the photos. There is one light spot off the bottom edge of the front cover, also a thin white line off the middle edge of the front cover. There's a little color fading off the top edges of the front and rear, adjacent to the spine. The gilt lettering on the front is nicely bright, on the spine it has lost a little bit of its luster but still looks fine. There is a wrinkle off the top edge of the spine. The bottom edge of the spine has a pinprick-sized tear. The cover edges are in very good shape, the rear bottom one has one little dent. The corners are in solid shape as well, the rear bottom one has one tiny spot of rub-through. The top page edge looks as if it may have once had a dark topstain. It has somewhat faded now. The middle and bottom page edges are deckled or rough-cut. They did a good job. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is solid throughout. There is a blending strip of reinforcing tape at the juncture between the blank verso of the half-title page and the blank verso of the frontispiece. Most of the junctures between the pages in the large section of illustrations at the rear of the book have the same blending reinforcement strip. The pages are quite heavy. I saw two instances of a thin space between facing pages in the section of illustrations. In both instances the pages are tightly bound from top to bottom. Both covers are solidly bound. The pages are exceptionally clean. I saw only one instance of a small spot at the margin of two facing pages. Three of the illustration pages have some toning off their bottom edges, not close to the illustrations which are all in very nice condition. I checked to make sure that all of the illustrations are present. They are. There are four illustrations in the first section, the frontispiece photograph of Serge Diaghileff, a drawing of Serge Prokofieff by Natalia Gontcharova, a reproduction of Serge Lifar from a painting by P. Tchelitchev, and a reproduction of two costume designs also by Tchelitchev titled Ode. After page 103 the fifth Plate begins a section of Plates that ends at Plate XLVIII which is a photograph titled Njinsky Revisits The Ballet (June, 1929). In the picture: Njinsky, Grigorieff, Diaghileff, Benois, and Karsavina are identified. Besides being very clean, the pages are in excellent condition. I didn't see any creasing. There is one little minor crinkle at the white margin off the top edge of some of the pages in the final section. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. Off the top edge of the blank front end paper is penned 'Thomas J. F. Kelly, Ithaca College Phi mu Alpha' and off the bottom edge of the same page he has also written 'April 25th 1933.' There's no other writing to be found anywhere in the book.

HB BLACK CLOTH SCATTERED FOXING NEAR FINE UNPAGINATED DW MISSING PIECES AT CROWN OF SPINE EDGES CHIPPED ABOUT VERY GOOD QTO 48 reproductions.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Original black cloth with some rubbing and chipping at spine ends and corners, otherwise very good with contents in fine condition. No dust jacket.

Origi.Leinenband, 4°, 72 Seiten Text und mit 48 Tafeln. Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz, Rücken bestossen, Einband etwas berieben, Innendeckel und Vorsätze leimschattig, Schnitt unregelmäßig sonst guter Zustand.

4°(28x23cm), xvii, 103 S., Leinen mit schwarzem Kopfschnitt - Mit 48 Abbildungen - Einband kaum berieben und bestoßen, Papier teilweise unterhalb beschnitten, Schnitt und Papier braunfleckig.

Hardcover in brown boards with gilt titles; without dustjacket, 104 pages and 48 illustrations; very good condition, light edgewear to boards and light foxing to outer page edges and inside rear cover; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

4to. pp. xvii, 103. 48 photographic plates (incl frontis. portrait of Serge Diaghilev & 47 scenes from various ballets). cloth, top edge black, others untrimmed (lower corners frayed). cloth clamshell box. from the library of encyclopedia publisher Leon Bram. First Edition. A companion volume to the author's previously published The Russian Ballet In Western Europe, 1909-1920 (1921), bringing the history of the company to a close. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes disbanded soon after his death in 1929. A complete list of ballets performed, 1909-1929, is given at the end. Bellingham p. 158. Magriel p. 128.

Cloth and paper over boards. Condition: Good. First edition. Hardcover original 1/4 white cloth over marbled paper over boards. 4to. xv, [3], 132 pp + plates. Illustrated with 63 tipped in plates (58 colour, 5 b/w). Number 348 out of a limited print run of 500 copies. Includes the artwork ofÂA. Benois, A. Derain, I. Fedorovsky, A. Golovin, N. Gontcharova, M. Larionov, H. Matisse, P. Picasso, N. Roerich, V. Serov, J.M. Sert and S. Soudeikine. Gilt title stamped on spine. Gilt head. Rubricated title page. Deckled edges. Light foxing to prelims. Pages bright and clean. Plates vibrant. Binding strong and square. Spine and boards shelf worn, bumped, and slightly scuffed. White cloth slightly soiled. Overall good condition.

First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. 4to (33.5 x 27 cm). xv, [4] list of illustrations, 132 pp., 66 tipped-in, mostly colour, illustrations after various artists, 5 portrait plates, full-page red and black lithograph and smaller illustrations after Goncharova in text; original quarter cloth over marbled paper boards, title in gilt to spine, spine yellowed, a good copy. The plates represent the work of the main artists who contributed to the early days of the Ballets Russes - actually all main Parisian painters of the time: Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Sert and, on the Russian side, Bakst, Goncharova, Benois, Fedorovskiy, Golovin, Larionov, Roerich, Serov and Sudeykin.

First Edition. The Russian Ballet -In Western Europe 1909-1920 With a Chapter on the Music by Eugene Goossens, John Lane Bodley Head, London, 1921, first edition, t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt, light wear to the inner hinges, else a tight near fine copy in the publishers original marbled boards and cloth spine binding and near vg scarce original slipcase with some wear and separation to the top panel. #91/450 copies with all illustrations and tipped in plates present and in fine condition featuring the work of: Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Bakst, Goncharova, Benois, Fedorovskiy, et.al.

Hardcover. Color marbled paper over boards; White cloth at spine; 131 pp. plus plates; 5 bw plates; 58 color plates, tipped in. The story of the Diaghilev Ballet in Western Europe between the years of 1909 and 1920; Beautifully illustrated, including works by Pablo Picasso, Leon Bakst, Henri Matisse, and others; Extensive text. This is an earlier version of this book that does NOT contain a Picasso lithograph. VG- (Some wear to extremities of boards; Hinges loose) Limited to 500 copies for sale in Great Britain.

. Illustrateur : BLANCHE, GONTCHAROVA, MAN RAY. (illustrator). Text with a preface by Jacques-Émile Blanche and forty-eight illustrations. New-York, Greenberg Publisher, 1931, demi-toile écrue, 103 pages, XLVIII pl. De nombreuses photos et illustrations illustrent l'aventure fantastique de ces Ballets Russes qui mobilisèrent les plus grands artistes de l'époque dont Jacques-Émile Blanche, Man Ray et Gontcharova. Petites usures. Livre.

London 1921. 4to. Orig. qtr. cloth (middle spine crease) with wash col. papered boards (corners rubbed). T.e.g. other edges uncut. (xx, 132pp.). With an additional illust. title-page, frontisp. portr., 65 tipped-in plates of which 36 col, 8 by L. Bakst, 4 by A. Benois, 5 by A. Derain, 4 by I. Fedorovsky, 2 by A. Golovin, 9 by N. Gontcharova, 5 by M. Larionov, 2 by H. Matisse, 9 by P. Picasso, 2 by N. Roerich, 1 by V. Serov, 7 by J.M. Sert and 4 by S. Soudeikine. Ed. lim. to 500 numbered copies, this being No. 337. Foxing on end-papers, otherwise fine. NOTE: Eugene Goossens was closely assoc. with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during the 1960s.