Studies Ballet by Haskell (9 results)

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Over-sized hardback book (no dust jacket titled BALLET: Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction and Notes by Arnold Haskell. First published in 1937 by Geoffrey Bles. Beautifully illustrated with 96 vintage black and white tipped-in photographs. Bound in buckram boards with maroon color leather spine. Boards show moderate scuffing/rubbing with light soiling - slightly cocked. International shipping will require additional charge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-14-bottom-R) rareviewbooks Language: eng.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Black and White photographs tipped in throughout. Red cloth boards with ivory cloth spine. Very Good (Interior clean and tight; boards faded at edges). Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra.

, 241 pages, 96 black and white tipped in photographs of ballet performers First Edition , rebacked, corners and edges rubbed, a couple of library stamps, pages and plates clean, binding firm, good condition , morocco spine with gilt titles, red and white cloth with gilt stamp to front , large quarto, 32cm x 26 cm Hardback ISBN:

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Good clean unmarked copy. In original wraps. #66 of 375. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Ex Libris Merriel Abbott Lewin and Ann Barzel, #135 of 375. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

One of only 100 copies - not only signed by Anthony, but inscribed by Haskell too --- First edition of this lovely book - this copy from the limited edition of 100 copies (No. 42) signed by Gordon Anthony and inscribed "with all good wishes" by his co-author Arnold Haskell, a British dance critic and later director of the Royal Ballet School. "A record, a souvenir, and an eloquent tribute to the foremost dancers of our day" (Haskell, preface), containing nearly a hundred superb photographic studies of the 1930s ballet luminaries, some in rare roles and poses, including Leonide Massine, Tamara Toumanova, Anton Dolin, Alicia Markova, Ninette de ValoisAnthony's sister, a former dancer with Ballets Russes and a founder of The Royal Ballet. The plates are arranged by the dancers' companies: the De Basil Ballet, René Blum's company (the inheritors of the Diaghilev Ballet Russes), the Ballet Jooss, and the Vic Wells Ballet, each accompanied by notes on the history of these companies and brief biographies of the dancers portrayed. An attractive, fresh example of this extensive visual record of the Ballets Russes. Provenance: Physical description:Folio (32 x 26.5 cm). 241 pp. incl. half-title and title, with 96 black and white photographs tipped-in. Publisher's red calf spine over ivory buckram boards, spine with gilt lettering and blind-stamped fillets, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, publisher's red cloth slipcase. Condition:A few small scuffs and stains on spine, light staining on boards, slipcase a bit stained, scratched, and worn at edges; minimal soiling on title and bottom base of frontispiece. Bibliography:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. 12 3/4'' X 10 1/2''. 241pp. This edition of '' BALLET'' is limited to ONE HUNDRED SIGNED copies. This is number 43. Half leather over buckram boards. Leather spine is worn, white boards are soiled. A couple of spots to fly-leaf, some toning to pages. A scarce book.

Condition: Collectible; Good. [FIRST EDITION] London: Geoffrey Bles, 1937. Large hardcover in publisherâs quarter gilt-titled white cloth spine and red buckram. 4to, 242 pages with 96 b/w plates tipped onto backing sheets, text on cream paper with deckled edges. Introduction and Notes by Arnold Haskell. Minor soiing to covers, owner bookplate on front paste-down, light scattered foxing, else very good overall condition; no owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (lr).