Ballet: First Steps to First Night. A Three-Dimensional Book

Dodd, Craig and Soar, Shirley

ISBN 10: 0671699024 / ISBN 13: 9780671699024

Published by Simon & Schuster, London, 1988

About this Item

Four double-page spreads with pop-ups plus three double-page spreads about ballet training and history, one ballerina is wearing three costumes in layers (repaired). Illustrated laminated boards. 'From ballet school and first steps to Swan Lake and beyond the footlights, see the world of ballet in three dimensions. The book tells how it all began, and presents the stories of famous ballets and how they were created.' Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 017043

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ballet: First Steps to First Night. A Three-Dimensional Book
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671699024
• ISBN 13: 9780671699024
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Soar, Shirley
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Childrens Books

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Synopsis

A pop-up book about ballet that takes the reader, with pop-up figures and text, from ballet school and training, to ballet's beginning and the history of costume, and then to brief summaries of some of the great ballets - Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Apollo, La Fille Mal Gardee, and The Nutcracker.