Published by The Viking Press, New York., 1973
Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition Signed
US$ 380.33
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Presentation from the author "For Nigel & Maude with friendly greetings. Steinberg NY Apr 1973". Loosely inserted article on Steinberg. The book is entirely illustrations. Cloth boards and text pages fine. Illustrated dj is near fine. 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.". Inscribed by Author(s).