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  1. ALFORD  VIOLET  and RODNEY GALLOP The  Traditional  Dance. Dances  of every European country described, together  with their historical and geographical background. Authors  were two  of  the  organisers of the  International  Folk  Dance Festival,  1935  held in London. illus. with frontis.  &  7 full  page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. Methuen  1935  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.204. v/good copy in the torn d/w.    Price: $35.00
     
  2. ALGERANOFF H. My Years With Pavlova  illus. with frontis. & numerous black and with photos, index pub. London William Heinemann Ltd., /Melbourne/Toronto, 1957 1st. ed. or. red cloth 8vo. pp.220. Algeranoff, born, Harcourt Algernon Leighton Essex , danced with Pavlova's company from 1921 to after her death. He toured the world with her company and worked in Australia for several years as a ballet master and dancer. Cloth slightly flecked else v/good.   Price: $40.00
     
  3. AMBROSE KAY Balletomane's Sketch Book. with e/paper illus. col.  frontis.  & profusely illus. with dwgs.  &  full  page plates  pub.  Lond. Adam & Charles Black 1942  or.cl.  d/w. cr.4to. pp.96. fine in the torn & chipped d/w.   Price:  $35.00
     
  4. ANDERSON JACK The Nutcracker Ballet. Covers the history of the  ballet  from Tchaikovsky's  composition.  illus.  with frontis.  24  full page coloured. plates & many b/w.  pub.  N.Y. Bison Books 1979 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.224.    Price: $45.00
     
  5. ANDREWS SHIRLEY Take Your Partners. Traditional Dancing in Australia.  illus.  with 12 full page  plates  t/out. bibliography, glossary and index of dances.  pub. Melb. Hyland House 1979 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.208. Comprehensive study of Australian dances. Includes detailed instructions for 68 dances plus variations, together with a complete glossary of the steps used. Fine.   Price: $40.00
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  6. ANTHONY   GORDON  (Photos).   Robert   Helpmann.   Studies. profusely  illus. with plates t/out. many full  page,  pub. Lond. Home & Van Thal Ltd. 1946 1st.ed. or.blk.cl. glt.ltg. to front bd. cr.4to. pp.unnumbered (76). fine.    Price: $35.00  
     
  7. AUSTRALIAN BALLET-The.  Artistic Director Peggy Van Praagh 1962-63 Season. Works include: Melbourne Cup, Just For Fun, One in Five, Swan Lake, Coppella, Don Quixote. Dancers include: Garth Welch, Kathleen Gorham, Marylin Jones, Caj Selling; with Guest Artist: Algeranoff; profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page, many portraits, and advts. Cover by Anne Church pub. Melbourne 1962 or. purple stiff card wrappers, 4to. pp.24. fine.     Price: $20.00
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  8. BARNES CLIVE Nureyev profusely illus. with 32 pages of full-colour photographs, 150 b/w. photographs - most published here for the first time - Nuryev's Russian & Western repertoire, his original choreography, production of the classics, and four-page Index; pub. NY Helene Obolensky Enterprises, 1982 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy4to. pp.240. Clive Barnes has followed the meteoric development of Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev's career over several continents from the very first days of his defection on June 17, 1961. Throughout his legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn, through ceaseless travels, and countless performances, his bold, innovative, artistic accomplishments, the dancer achieved worldwide fame and restored the male dancer to a new prominence. Presentation copy signed by Clive Barnes. Small tear to dustwrapper, slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.   Price: $75.00
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  9. BASIL W. de   Colonel W. de Basil’s Ballet Company. Australia New Zealand tour 1939-1940. Programme. "Le Lac des Cygnes, Francesca da Rimini and others. Artists include David Lichine Choreographer, Anatole Oboukhoff, Professeur de Danse, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanoya, Nina Verchinina, Tamara Gregorieva, David Lichine, Vera Nemtchinova, Anna Volkova, Roman Jasinsky, Paul Petroff, Yura Lazovsky and others. illus. with photo plates of the artists, advts, some full page, two col. advts. or. col. illus. wrappers, cr.4to. pp.46 inc. covers.  Slight silverfishing to cover else fine.  Price: $30.00
     
  10. BASIL W. de  Colonel W. de Basil’s Ballet Company. Australia New Zealand 1939-1940. Souvenir Programme. At His Majesty’s Theatre Gala Season commencing Thursday Evening March 14 1940. Repertoirre inc. Lac Des Cygnes, Presages, Slyphises, Choreartium, Petruchka, Carnaval and others. Artists include Choreographers, David Lichine Vasalav Nijinsky, Loenide Massine, Boronslava Nijinska, Georges Blanchine, Serge Lifer, and others. Artists: inc. Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova, Nina Verchinina, Tamara Gregorieva, Lubov Tchernicheva, David Lichine, Vera Nemtchinova, Anna Volkova, Roman Jasinsky, Paul Petroff, Yura Lazovsky and others. illus. with photo plates of the artists, in performance, designs, advts, some full page, or. sepia illus. wrappers, 4to. pp.54 inc. covers. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  11. BASIL W. de   Colonel W. de Basil’s Ballet Company. Australia New Zealand tour 1939-1940. Programme. "Graduation Ball, Le Coq d’Or" and others. Artists include David Lichine Choreographer, Anatole Oboukhoff, Professeur de Danse, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanoya, Nina Verchinina, Tamara Gregorieva, David Lichine, Vera Nemtchinova, Anna Volkova, Roman Jasinsky, Paul Petroff, Yura Lazovsky and others. illus. with photo plates of the artists, advts, some full page, two col. advts. or. col. illus. wrappers, cr.4to. pp.46 inc. covers. Signed   by David Lichine, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Anna Volkova, Yura Lazovsky. 5 artists. sl silverfished to top of rear wrapper, staples rusted, else very good copy, very clean.     Price: $250.00
     
  12. BAKST LEON Bakst. illus. with text followed by 48 coloured plates, pub. London Academy Editions 1977 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. square pp.52. Fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  13. BEAUMONT  CYRIL W. Design For The Ballet. profusely  illus. with  plates t/out. 8 full page tipped-in col.  pub.  Lond. The  Studio The Special Winter Number 1937 or.blu.cl.  4to. pp.152. Collection of designs for settings and costumes for ballet affords a pictorial survey of the work accomplished 1922 - 1936 (designers include Corot, Beaton, Goncharova, Picasso and Olah). Cloth sl. marked else v/good.   Price: $125.00
     
  14. BEAUMONT CYRIL W.    Ballet Design   Past & Present London, England The Studio, Ltd. 1946 illus. with numerous  b/w. plates  t/out.  some full page and col., or. dark blue cl. boards 4to. pp.216  No-one knows more of his subject than Mr. Beaumont, enthusiast and historian of the ballet. An authoritative introduction tracing ballet design from the Italian Renaissance to the English masques with their settings and costumes by Inigo Jones, and so on through the centuries.  Very good copy.   Price: $75.00
     
  15. BEAUMONT  CYRIL W. The Diaghilev Ballet In London.  illus. with col. frontis. & 24 full page plates t/out. pub.  Lond. or.cl.  8vo.  pp.XX.356. sl. flecking  to  spine  effecting title otherwise v/good.      Price: $50.00
     
  16. BEAUMONT CYRIL W. Complete Book Of Ballets. A guide to the principal Ballets of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. illus.  with  frontis. & 184 full page plates  t/out.  pub. N.Y. Putnam 1951 reprint with additions. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XXIV.1106. Added: Supplement To Complete Book Of  Ballets. pub. Lond. Putnam 1952 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.210. Good copies in the chipped d/w. & shelf work d/w's. The two volumes:   Price: $95.00
     
  17. BELLEW PETER Ed. by Pioneering Ballet In Australia. illus. with  72 full page plates t/out. of which 12 are col.  pub. Syd. Craftsman Bookshop nd.1946 or. red cl. pp.102.  sunned to spine, sl. stained & sunned to boards. small tear to spine.   Price: $40.00
     
  18. BENOIS ALEXANDER Reminiscences Of The Russian Ballet. with e/paper  illus. frontis. & 30 full page plates t/out.  pub. Lond. Putnam 1947 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XV.414. Dustwrapper little chipped otherwise very good.   Price: $60.00
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  19. BLAND  ALEXANDER The Nureyev Image. profusely illus.  with b/w.  plates t/out. many full page pub. Lond. Studio  Vista 1977 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.288. Over 300 photographs of Nureyev as a young student in Russia, practicing, directing and dancing in London, Paris, Milan, Vienna and New York with ballerinas of many nationalities. Fine.   Price: $45.00
     
  20. BORODIN GEORGE This Thing Called Ballet illus. with frontispiece photograph of Galina Ulanova & 64 photographic plates pub. London Macdonald not dated circa 1945 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. Missing front free endpaper else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  21. BORODIN GEORGE    Invitation To Ballet. illus. with  frontis. &  8  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. 1950  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.256. very sl. foxing to edges of plates. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper else v/good. Price: $35.00
     
  22. BOROVANSKY BALLET 1951 Jubilee Season. Programme of season. illus. with many photo plates, advts., Constable working on scenery, pub. Melb. 1951 or. col. illus.wps. by Constable, puppets and mask. 4to. pp.34. Good TAA advert. fine.    Price: $40.00
     
  23. BRAHMS CARYL A Seat At The Ballet.  illus. with frontis.  & 16  full  page  plates t/out. pub. U.K.  Evans  Bros.  1952 or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.144. Behind the scenes, looking for perfection, how to identify it, allowing for greater discernment for the viewer.   d/w. sl. chipped, a v/good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  24. BRADLEY LIONEL   Ballet Rambert  Sixteen Years of Ballet Rambert. illus. with 74 photographs by Gilbert Adams, Gordon Anthony and many others. Decorations by Hugh Stevenson. Complete repertoire, index of choreographers, index of composers, index of designers, index of dancers pub. Lond. Hinrichsen Edition Limited. 1946 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.84 near fine in dustwrapper.  Price: $45.00    Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  25. BROWN IAN F. The Australian Ballet 1962-1965 A record of the company, its dancers and its ballets. illus. with colour plates, and many black-and-white photographs; indexed. pub. Melbourne Longmans 1967 1st. ed. or. black cl. 4to. pp.X.154. Very good copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  26. BRUNELLESCHI  ELSA Antonio and Spanish Dancing. profusely illus. with b/w photos, index. pub. London A & C Black 1958 1st. ed. 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.96. Added: 3 programmes of Spanish Dancing from Antonis Dance co. 1956. Very good condition.   Price: $45.00
     
  27. BUCKLE  RICHARD Nijinsky. with 48 full page plates  t/out. text  illus. pub. Lond. Weidenfeld & Nicolson  1974  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVIII.482.  Very good copy.   Price:  $40.00
     
  28. CARGHER  JOHN Opera And Ballet In Australia. with  illus. e/papers  & profusely illus. with plates t/out.  many  full page  &  col. pub. Melb. Cassell 1977 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 4to. pp.XIV.352. The first history of the major theatrical arts in Australia, is a fascinating chronicle of the behind the scene struggles, failures and successes. With a comprehensive index. Fine copy.   Price: $40.00
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  29. CHAPPELL WILLIAM Fonteyn.  Impressions Of A Ballerina. with e/paper  dwgs.  frontis. title page vign. &  40  full  page plates   photo   plates  t/out.  by  Cecil   Beaton, published for the first time.     text decorations  by  the author. pub. Lond. Rockliff  Pub.  co. 1951  1st.ed.  or.cl. pink & blk.  d/w.  8vo.  pp.VIII.136. fine.    Price:  $60.00
     
  30. CLARE TREVOR Ballet Art And Photography. profusely  illus. with plates, dwgs. by D. Darin Smith t/out some full page 3 col. pub. Adelaide The Advertiser nd.194-? or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.34. Dustwrapper slightly chipped else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  31. CLARKE  MARY and Clement Crisp.   The History Of Dance profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page, 53 colour plates; pub. NY Crown 1981 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.220.Embracing thousands of years of dance and crossing many cultural boundaries. Fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  32. COOK  MICHAEL Swan Lake. The Making of a  Ballet.  illus. with many plates t/out. col. & b/w. pub. Syd. Golden  Press 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to.obl. pp.114.   Featuring the Australian Ballet 1977 production of Swan Lake. Fine.   Price:  $35.00
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  33. CROWLE PIGEON Moira Shearer. Portrait of a Dancer illus. with frontispiece & 47 plates, index pub. London: Faber and Faber: October 1951 New Edition. or. grey cl. 4to. pp.96. Very good copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  34. DANCING  TIMES-The. Issues for Feb. 1938 to May 1940  lacks March 1938 May, June, Aug., July 1939, Sept. 1939 profusely illus.  with  plates  t/out.  some  full  page  pub.  Lond. illus.wps.  roy.8vo. pp.60 per vol. one issue has stain  to front wrapper otherwise fine run of this interesting  magazine, 21 issues.    Price: $125.00   
     
  35. DEGAS EDGAR     Ballet Dancers  illus. with frontis. & 69 reproduced paintings and sculptures, by Degas. Some col. and full page pub. Sydney Morgan Publications, 1961 Very good condition.    Price: $30.00
     
  36. De ZOETE BERYL  Dance And Drama In Bali Preface by Arthur Waley. illus. with 112 black and white photo plates by Walter Spies; index pub. London Faber 1938 1st. ed. or. beige cl. 4to. pp.XX.344. "Walter Spies and I planned this book during my first short visit to Bali in December 1934, while on a six months' journey of dance study in the countries. Shelf-edge rough-cut. Near fine.   Price: $150.00
     
  37. DOLIN ANTON  Autobiography   illus. with Portrait, and 32 plates pub. London Oldbourne 1960 1st ed. or. blue cloth w/silver lettering d/w. 8vo. pp.336. The autobiography of England's distinguished leading male dancer and choreographer, co-founder of London's Festival Ballet. Very fine copy.    Price: $95.00
     
  38. DUNCAN ISADORA  My Life illus. with 23 black & white photos by Edward Steichen, Genthe, Otto, others, pub. London VIctor Gollancz, 1928 1st. ed. or. dark orange cl. 8vo. pp.376. Isadora Duncan's autobiography, published posthumously on the basis of her handwritten text; Near fine copy.   Price: $150.00
     
  39. DUNCAN ISADORA Irma & Allan Ross Macdougall, Isadora Duncan's Russian Days & Her Last Years in France illus. with or. orange cloth covered boards 8vo. pp.384. Shelf wear else a very good copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  40. FISHER HUGH   The Sadlers Wells Theatre Ballet  illus. with 91 photos, some full page pub. London A & C Black 1956 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.82. Fine copy in sl. chipped d/w.     Price: $30.00
     
  41. FISHER HUGH The Story Of The Sadler's Wells Ballet. illus. with frontis. & many photographs pub. London Adam & Charles Black, Reprinted with corrections, 1956 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.64. Fine in the slightly closed torn d/w. Price: $35.00
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  42. FORMBY DAVID Australian Ballet And Modern Dance. profusely illus.  with  plates t/out. many full page &  col.  e/paper illus.  pub.  Syd. Lansdowne Press 1981  or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.168.  Price:  $35.00
     
  43. FRANKS A.H. Ed. by. Pavlova 1881-1931. A biography. illus. with  32 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Burke Pub.  Co. 1956 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.144. fine.  Price:  $45.00
     
  44. FONTEYN  MARGOT The Magic Of Dance.  profusely illus.  with plates  t/out.  some full page & col. pub.  Lond.  Fountain Productions 1980 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.326.  Price:  $40.00
     
  45. GARLING  JEAN Australian Notes On The Ballet. illus.  with col.  frontis.  & numerous plates t/out. some col.  &  full page  by Daryl Lindsay and William Constable pub. Syd.  The Legend  Press  nd.194-? 8vo.obl. pp.40. several  plates  at rear  have  been damp on edges and have adhered  &  parted, some  sl.  torn. However all are intact  except  last  page which  lacks  small piece stuck to former page,  does  not intrude into text or plates, good otherwise.   Price:  $30.00
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  46. GARLING JEAN - Australian Notes On The Ballet. illus. with col. frontis. & numerous plates t/out. some col. & full page by Daryl Lindsay and William Constable pub. Syd. The Legend Press nd.194-? or.cl. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.40.very good copy.   Price: $45.00      Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  47. GIBBON MONK The Red Shoes Ballet. A Critical Study illus. with profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. London The Saturn Press 1948 Third edition or. red cl. 4to. pp.96. Lacks f/free e/paper else v/good.   Price: $40.00
     
  48. GIBBON MONK The Tales Of Hoffmann. A Study of the Film. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. London Saturn Press 1951 1st. ed. or. blue cl. 4to. pp.96. Profiles of players, including Robert Helpmann Ann Ayers, Ludmilla Tcherina, Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert Rounsville with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the Roayl Philharmonic orchestra and the Sadler Well's Choir. The sets were by Hein Heckroth. Little rubbed to spine, otherwise good copy.   Price: $40.00
     
  49. GOPAL RAM Rhythm In The Heavens. An Autobiography illus. with frontis. & 24 b/w. photo plates; pub. London, Secker And Warburg 1957 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.212. The author was born in Bangalore, India in 1912 and made his western solo debut in New York in 1938. Among other places he danced in the Opera House in Warsaw and in the Aldwych Theatre. Near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
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  50. GOODE GERALD Ed.   The Book Of Ballets. Classical and Modern. illus. with . 31 colored illustrations by Matisse, Picasso, Berard etc., 200 halftone illustrations. pub. New York: Crown Publishers, 1939 or. blue cl. cr.4to. pp.246. Concise history of the ballets, Contains the stories, musical themes, descriptions of choreography, scenes and costumes for 81 most important productions of all major companies appearing in pre-World War II US. Glossary of ballet terms, detailed bibliography. Name on f/free e/paper else very good copy.   Price: $50.00
     
  51. GRAHAM MARTHA Blood Memory illus. with Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, many from Martha Graham's own collection Contains her views on dance as well as recollections of numerous artists & innovators with whom she worked, From her birth in 1894 to her death in 1991 she collaborated or taught: Charlie Chaplin, Louise Brooks, Helen Keller, Aaron Copland, Isamu Noguchi, Indira Gandhi, Isamu Noguchi, Halston, Louis Horst, Margot Fonteyn, Woody Allen, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli, Madonna, etc. pub. London Macmillian 1992 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.186 fine.   Price $45.00
     
  52. HALL HUGH P. Ballet In Australia. From Pavlova to Rambert. profusely illus. with photo plates t/out. mostly full page, by  author. pub.  Melb.  Georgian  House   1948   1st.ed. or.blu.cl.  4to.obl. pp.212. sl. mark to f/board  otherwise fine.    Price: $150.00
     
  53. HASKELL  ARNOLD  L. Diaghileff. His  Artistic  And  Private Life.  illus. with title page vign. & 22 full-page  plates t/out.  pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1935 or. moss  grn.  cl. 8vo. pp.382. sl. rubbed else fine.  Price: $35.00
     
  54. HASKELL  ARNOLD  L. The Balletomane's Scrap-Book profusely illus. with photo plates t/out. mostly full page, pub. pub. London A. & C. Black: 1936 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. (pp. unpaginated approx.80) Slightly foxed to e/papers, d/w. little chipped and worn else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  55. HASKELL ARNOLD L.    Balletomane's Album  illus. with full page plates t/out. (incl. ports.) Map and facsimile autographs on e/papers. pub. London A. & C. Black: 1939 Commissioning organisation: by Arnold L. Haskell or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.88 Good clean copy in sl. torn d/w. Australian tour 1938-39.    Price: $40.00
     
  56. HASKELL  ARNOLD  L. Ballet Since 1939 illus. with colour frontispiece b/w. plates pub. London: Longmans Green, 1948 revised edition second title in the series The Arts in Britain. or. wrappers, 8vo. pp.56. Fine. Price: $25.00
     
  57. HASKELL ARNOLD L. Miracle In The Gorbals illus. with many full page b/w. photographs portraits, plates, facsimiles. pub. Edinburgh The Albyn Press, 1946 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.32. A discussion of Robert Helpmann's choreography, Michael Benthall's scenario, and Arthur Bliss' music for the ballet of the same name. Minor chips at spine otherwise v/good.   Price: $30.00
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  58. HASKELL  ARNOLD  L. The National Ballet. A history  and  a Manifesto.  illus. with col. frontis. & 8 full page  plates t/out.  pub. Lond. Adam & Charles Black  1947  or. cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.96. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else v/good.   Price: $35.00
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  59. HASKELL  ARNOLD  L. Baron Encore.  profusely  illus.  with  Margot Fonteyn in 'Swan Lake' as colour frontis. & 4 colour plates and numerous b/w photos pub. Lond. 1953 or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.222. Best of Baron's work in London, Paris and Copenhagen during the few years prior to publication, d/w. lacks piece to rear otherwise very good.   Price: $45.00
     
  60. HASKELL ARNOLD L. Baron At The Ballet. profusely illus. with 8 coloured plates and numerous b/w photos t/out. pub. Lond. Collins 1951 or. red buckram with gilt titles on the spine. d/w. 4to. pp.222. A comprehensive collection of photographs taken between 1935 and 1950 which illustrate, describe and assess the work of many famous ballet companies. Dustwrapper is little chipped & edge worn otherwise very good copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  61. HASKELL  ARNOLD  L. (Commentary  &  Introduction)   Baron's Ballet  Finale.  profusely illus. with b/w.  plates  t/out. many  full  page pub. Lond. Collins 1958 or.cl.  d/w.  4to. pp.192.  Final monument to Baron, the pre-eminent ballet and dance photographer, covering all aspects of the ballet, dancers, choreographers, designers. in over two hundred beautiful photographs, 4 of which are full colour plates. Near fine copy.   Price: $60.00
     
  62. HELPMAN  MARY The Helpman Family Story  1796-1964.  illus. with  16  full  page plates t/out. pub.  Adel.  Rigby  1967 1st.ed. or.blu.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.138.  v/good copy.    Price: $40.00
     
  63. HOROSKO MARIAN Martha Graham:    The Evolution of Her Dance Theory and Training. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub. Chicago, IL, USA Cappella Books/Chicago Review Press 1991 (paperback) red and black card covers, 8vo pp.186 fine.    Price $30.00
     
  64. HUROK S. with Ruth Goode. Impresario illus. with frontis. & 40 b/w. photos pub. London Macdonald & Co. 1947 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.272. Solomon Isaievich Hurok (1888-1974) was one of the world's foremost impresarios who, through his persistent efforts to bring distinguished foreign performers & ensembles to American audiences, did much to inspire interest in classic music, opera and, particularly, in ballet. Here are his reminiscences of Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Marian Anderson, Arthur Rubinstein, Salvador Dali, Katherine Dunham and Isaac Stern. Short closed tear to d/w. previous owner's name to past down e/paper, else Fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  65. HUROK S. Presents.  The story of a great Impresario's Adventures in the world of Ballet. illus. with 32 full page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Invincible Press 1954 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.336. The story of a great impresario's adventures in the dance world. Mr. Hurok remembers Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, v/good copy in lightly chipped d/w.   Price: $35.00 
     
  66. KAHN  ALBERT    Days With Ulanova.  profusely  illus.  with plates t/out. many full page & col. pub. Lond. Collins 1962 or.cl. d/w. showing Galina Ulanova in pensive pose, roy.4to. pp.236. An intimate portrait of the Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet. Has the reputation of the greatest Soviet ballerina. Her flat in Moscow is designated a national museum, and there are monuments to her in Saint Petersburg .chipped d/w. else fine.    Price: $50.00
     
  67. KARPELES M. and L Blake. Dances Of England And Wales illus. with 4 colour plates and one map pub. London Max Parrish 1950 1st. ed. (Handbooks of European National Dances) Published Under the Auspices of the Royal Academy of Dancing and the Ling Physical Education Association: No. 13 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.40. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  68. KARSAVINA TAMARA  Ballet Technique Foreword by Dame Margot Fonteyn. profusely illus. with b/w. plates t/out. some full page pub. London A & C Black 1956 1st. ed. or. black cl. 4to. pp.48. Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
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  69. KENNEDY DOUGLAS  England's Dances: Folk-Dancing To-Day And Yesterday. illus. with 19 b/w. plates 2 maps. pub. London or.cl. d/w. (photo of Morris Dancers on front) 12mo. pp.158. previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  70. KIMMINS C. W. (Founder of The Guild of Play) Peasant Dances and Songs of Many Lands with many musical scores b/w. photographs and illustrations plus instructions on how to do the dance. pub. London Evans Brothers Limited, 1919 or. Thick illustrated card covers with cloth spine, roy.4to. pp.74. Slight shelf wear, otherwise very good.   Price: $75.00
     
  71. KIRSOVA  HELENE Kirsova Australian Ballet. illus. with  10 tipped-in  re-production dwgs. by Trevor Clare. pub.  Melb. nd.194-?  or.illus.wps.  roy.4to. pp.22.  lacks  one  plate otherwise fine.   Price: $20.00
     
  72. KITCHER BARRY From Gaolbird To Lyrebird. A Life in Australian Ballet. foreword by Marilyn Jones in text, b/w. halftone plate illustrations throughout; pub. Melbourne South Yarra, Front Page Productions 2001 or. pictorially-illustrated card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.368. A Life in Australian Ballet, by a principal, Kitcher - first with the Ballet Rambert and 20 years a soloist with Borovansky. Boyhood in the bush to international status and a pivotal role creating Helpmann's 1964 triumph, the Display. Signed by the author Fine.   Price: $35.00
     
  73. KOCHNO  BORIS Diaghilev And The Ballets Russes.  Translated from the French by Adrienne Foulke. profusely illus.  with 312 black-and-white plates t/out. many full page 70 in colour  pub. N.Y. Harper & Row 1970 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.294. Account of the 60 great ballets of Diaghilev's career, the dancers, the costumes, the settings. Fine in the d/w., which has a chip to the rear.   Price: $125.00
     
  74. LAWRENCE GERTRUDE A Star Danced Foreword by Charles B. Cochran. illus. with b/w. plates t/out. pub. Sydney Invincible Press 1945 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.248. When a glamorous and superlative star lets down her lustrous hair and writes about her romances, her marriages, her personal friends on and of the stage, and winds up with excerpts from her exciting war diary.  Chips top/bottom spine & edges of d/w. else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  75. LEE-ELLIOTT  THEYRE  Paintings Of The Ballet.  illus.  with frontis. & 41 full page plates t/out. by author of which 15 are   col.   pub.  Collins  1947  or.   beige   cl.   4to. pp.unnumbered (88).   Price: $45.00
     
  76. LIFAR  SERGE  Ballet Traditional To Modern.  Translated  by Cyril  W.  Beaumont. illus. with frontis. &  38  full  page plates  t/out. pub. Lond. Putnam 1938 1st.ed. or.  red  cl. 8vo. pp.302. ifar was one of the great dancers of the last century, also a distinguished choreographer, whose ballets have caused discussion on account of their modernist conception and composition. light shelf rubbing to extremities, page edges a little foxed lacks f/free  e/paper, else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  77. LIFAR SERGE  Lifar On Classical Ballet. Translated from the French by D.M. Dinwiddie. illus. with 36 full page  plates t/out. & many text dwgs. by  Monique  Lancelot pub. Lond. 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.212. Some hundred of Beaton's photographs are included, portraits of ;star' dancers, close-ups, scenes of ballet in action and scenes behind the scenes. In addition, the text is decorated with many drawings from his sketchbooks, large and small." previous owner's name to f/free e/paper, Dustwrapper little chipped piece lacking, otherwise very good.   Price: $45.00
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  78. LIGHTFOOT LOUISE    Shivaram Dance Recitals. illus. with numerous  b/w. plates, diagrams  t/out.   pub. Melbourne Premier Printing; nd. c. 1946 or. cream/green illus. stiff wrappers, 4to. pp.8. Explaines Dancer’s Salutation,Hindu Natya, Dancing in India today, Kathakali, & Press reviews of Miss Lightfoot’s productions. Slightly browned to edges else fine copy.     Price: $35.00
     
  79. LISNER CHARLES My Journey Through Dance. illus. with  many plates  t/out. some full page in. 3 in col. pub. Qld.  Uni. of Qld. Press 1979 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XII.192. Fine.   Price:  $35.00
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  80. LIEVEN PRINCE PETER Translated by L. Zarine. The Birth  Of The Ballets-Russes. illus. with col. frontis. & title  page vign.,  34 full page b/w. plates t/out. pub. Lond. Allen  & Unwin   1936 1st. ed.  or.  grn. &  beige  pict.  cl.   8vo. pp.378,2.advts.  Neat ownership inscription from 1937 o/w fine.   Price: $75.00
     
  81. MacGEORGE  NORMAN Borovansky Ballet In Australia  and  New Zealand. with col. frontis. & many b/w. plates t/out.  some full  page  pub. Melb. Cheshire 1947 3rd.ed.  or. beige  cl. 4to. pp.100. Near fine in the slightly shelf worn d/w.   Price:  $60.00
     
  82. MASSINE LEONIDE Massine On Choreography. Theory and Exercises in Composition illus. with diagrams and illustrations in the text index, pub. London: Faber, 1976 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.220. Culmination of Leonide Massine's researches into choreography is concerned with the acquisition of knowledge of the movements of the body and the principles and rules which govern their elaboration in every form and style. Fine in the very slightly shelf worn d/w.   Price: $95.00
     
  83. MILLER  TATLOCK  (col. and arranged by) An Exhibition Of   Art For The Theatre And Ballet. Under the auspices of the British Council London profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page. No publisher stated but printed at The Harbour Press. 1940 A catalogue for the exhibition including two essays by Cyril Beaumont and James Laver. Includes the separately published 4 page Loudon Sainthill exhibition at the Myer Gallery addenda with price list. Small chips to the covers as they protrude over the page edges. A very good copy of a scarce item.   Price: $125.00
     
  84. MILLER H. TATLOCK (col. & arranged by) An Exhibition Of Art For The Theatre And Ballet. Under the auspices of The British Council, London. profusely illus. with plates throughout, some full page No publisher stated but printed at The Harbour Press. 1940 or. dark pink and blue wrappers cr.4to. pp.60 A catalogue for the exhibition including two essays by Cyril Beaumont and James Laver. Loudon Sainthill exhibition catalogue not present. Lacks corner, to front wrapper and rear wrapper else good.   Price: $45.00
     
  85. MILLER  TATLOCK  Ed.  by.   Ballet  Rambert    The  Tour  of Australia and New Zealand 1947-48. illus. with 20 full page photo plates by Alec Murray, Decorated by Loudon Sainthill, and one design by Kenneth Rowell pub.  Syd.  1947  or.  col. illus.wps.  roy.4to.  pp.unnumbered (52). Some sl. staining to lower spine else very good.   Price: $35.00
     
  86. MONEY KEITH    The Art Of The Royal Ballet profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. London George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1964 or. red cl. 4to. pp.272. Historical record of the time when Sir Frederick Ashton succeeded Dame Ninette de Valois as Director and also creating his ballet Marguerite and Armand. Christopher Gable features as the central princely figure, and with Lynn Seymour in Macmillan's Romeo and Juliet. Author's photographs, spanning exactly twelve months in time, from Margeurite and Armand in 1963 to Dream in 1964. Images from the Royal Ballet - rehearsal room, action shots from performances and other pictures selected from a variety of notable ballets, chosen to show the technical skill, talent and labour that go into a production.  Dustwrapper at spine sl. chipped else fine.  Price: $40.00
     
  87. MONEY  KEITH Anna Pavlova. Her Life and Art.  illus.  with frontis.  & profusely illus. with photo plates t/out.  pub. Lond.  Collins  1982  1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w.  super  roy.4to. pp.424. Life and art of the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881-1931). The most complete record of her life yet recorded, Pavlova is considered to be the greatest ballerina of all time. Very good in the sl. torn d/w. (lacks piece at lower spine).   Price: $100.00
     
  88. MONEY  KEITH Fonteyn. (1919-1991) The Making of a  Legend.  profusely illus. with plates t/out. many full page. nearly 800 in all. pub. Lond. Collins 1973 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.4to. pp.322. A biography in photographs of the great English ballerina most remembered now for her partnership with Nureyev, but earlier with Robert Helpmann and Michael Somes. Fine.   Price: $75.00
     
  89. MOORE ALEX  Ballroom Dancing illus. with 100 diagrams and photos of the quickstep, waltz, foxtrot, tango, etc. pub. London Pitman & Sons, Ltd 1971 7th Edition or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.324. previous owner's neat name to f/free e/paper, else very fine.   Price: $25.00
     
  90. MORGAN   BARBARA  Martha   Graham   Sixteen   Dances   in Photographs. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many  full page, pub. N.Y. Morgan & Morgan 1980 (facsimile of the 1941 ed.) or.cl. d/w. 4to.obl. pp.166. fine.   Price: $55.00
     
  91. MORLEY IRIS  Soviet Ballet. illus. with frontis. & 46  full page  plates  t/out. pub. Lond. Collins  1945  or.cl.  4to. pp.72.  Iris Morley, who lived and worked in the USSR for several years describes how Russian Ballet survived under the Soviet system. V/good in the chipped d/w.   Price: $35.00
     
  92. MORRIS Ring-The  The Morris And Sword Dances Of England. illus. with colour frontis and b/w photographs in text; pub. Hive Printers, for The Morris Ring nd. Seventh Edition c.1960's or. stapled booklet 8vo. pp.12. A brief history of modern Morris dancing, List of squires and bagmen of the Morris Ring 1934 – 1966. "The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time. It survives today as a form of folk dance performed in the open air in villages in rural England. " Fine.   Price: $20.00
     
  93. NICOLAEVA-LEGAT NADINE     Ballet Education   With a Poem by John Masefield. Preface by Sir Paul Dukes, KBE. illus. with frontis. (portrait) & line drawings of positions, pub. London: Bles: 1947 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w.cr.4to. pp.XXIV,164. Small splash stain to lower d/w. else very good copy.     Price: $40.00
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  94. NIJINSKA  BRONISLAVA  Early Memoirs. translated and Ed.  by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson illus. with 64 full  page plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. Faber 1982 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. 8vo. pp.XXVI.546. Memoirs of Russian Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky revealed by his sister Bronislava Nijinska. Translated from the Russian by Irina Nijinska and Jean Rawlinson. Fine copy.     Price: $40.00
     
  95. NIJINSKY VASLAV Ed by   Paul Magriel Nijinsky An Illustrated monograph illus. with 65 photo plates; pub. London Adam and Charles Black, 1948 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.82. Slight damp stain to edge of first few pages, sl. insect marked d/w. else v/good.   Price: $40.00
     
  96. NIJINSKY  ROMOLA The Last Years Of Nijinsky.  illus.  with frontis.  pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1952 or.cl. d/w.  8vo. pp.160. sl. spotting to edges, d/w. sl. chipped, Gift inscription to f/free e/paper, else v/good.   Price: $45.00
     
  97. NUREYEV RUDOLF Nureyev. An Autobiography with Pictures illus. with 65 b/w photos; pub. Lond. Hodder and Stoughton 1962. 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.128 Tells the story of his early years in a remote and poverty stricken village. He became aware of a tremendous urge to dance at a very early stage. Fine copy, price clipped.   Price: $45.00
     
  98. PARKER  DEREK  & JULIA The Natural History Of  The Chorus Girl. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page  & col.  pub. Melb. Lansdowne Press 1975 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. roy.4to. pp.192. Chorus girls from the 1800's to the 1970's. From the stage of the Empire, Leicester Square and the foyer of the Paris Opera, to Busby Berkeley, via the boards of the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere. Fine.   Price: $40.00
     
  99. PASK  EDWARD H. - Enter The Colonies Dancing. A  History  of Dance  in  Australia.  with e/paper illus.  &  many  plates t/out.  some  full page pub. Melb. Oxford Uni.  Press  1979 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.X.188. Very fine.     Price: $40.00
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  100. PASK EDWARD H. -  Ballet In Australia. The Second Act 1940-1980. illus. with & many plates t/out. some full page & col. pub. Melb. Oxford Uni. Press 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.X.318. presentation copy signed by author.      Price: $45.00      Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  101. PAVLOVA  An  Illustrated Monograph. Ed.  by  Paul  Magriel illus.  with  frontis. & numerous plates t/out.  some  full page  pub. Lond. Adam & Charles Black 1948  or. black cl.  4to. pp.78. Very good copy. Price: $40.00
     
  102. PRAAGH  VAN PEGGY  How I Became A Ballet Dancer illus. with seven photographs including the frontispiece; pub. London Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. 1959 Juniors series. or. card wrappers, (paperback), 12mo. pp.98. Little foxing throughout else good copy.  Price: $15.00
     
  103. PRAAGH  VAN  and Peter Brinson  The Choreographic  Art.  An Outline  of  its Principles & Craft. illus. with  73  photo plates  &  12 dwgs. pub. Lond. Adam &  Charles  Black  1963 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XXIV.388.  All aspects of the art of ballet choreography, including a history of the craft, an outline of contemporary choreography, and sections on themes, dance vocabulary, casting, rehearsals, individual versus ensemble dancers, and the choreographer's interactions with artistic directors, composers, and designers. Fine.   Price: $145.00
     
  104. PRINCESS THEATRE Melbourne.  National Theatre Arts Festival. Centenary Of Victoria. Jubilee of the Commonwealth Celebrations. The National Arts Festival Committee. The National Theatre Ballet Company. Ballet Season. programme. Under Direction of Joyce Graeme, Assit. Director Rex Reid with Victorian Symphony Orchestra. "Le Lac Des Cygnes" illus. with advts. photo plates (portraits) (TAA, The Age and others) Featuring Leon Kellaway, Henry Danton, Rex Reid, Joyce Graeme, Ronald Reay, R. Trickett and others. pub. Melbourne 1951 or. blue/purple dec. wrappers, cr.4to. (pp. unpaginated approx.20). fine.     Price: $20.00
     
  105. REY JAN The World Of Dance. Folk Dance and Ballet in Czechoslovakia. illus. with many of photos and information on ballet and folk dance, some full page & col. pub. London Spring Books nd. c. 1950's or. beige cl. with black illustration on front and lettering on spine roy.4to. pp.200. Very good copy.   Price: $55.00
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  106. ROYAL BALLET The Film of  The Royal Ballet  Margot Fonteyn. Ballet programme profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & mostly col. pub. Sydney, Alexander Industries nd. 1960's or. illus. red wrappers, 4to. pp.16. Very good copy.   Price: $15.00
     
  107. RUSKIN  PAMELA  Invitation To The Dance. The story  of  the Australian  Ballet School. illus. with b/w.  plates  t/out. some  full page pub. Syd. Collins 1989 1st.ed. or.cl.  d/w. cr.4to. pp.XVI.200.   The Australian Ballet School has produced many fine dancers in the first twenty-five years of existence, but even when students have graduated there is no guarantee they will find a position in the Australian Ballet. Here is the story of the School, its history, its objectives, its triumphs and the work done by Dame Margaret Scott. Fine copy.   Price: $45.00
     
  108. RUSSIAN BALLET   Monte Carlo Russian Ballet  Colonel W. De Basil’s. Artists include, Valentina Blinova, Helene Kirsova, Nina Raievska and others. Programme of season. "Les Cent Baisers" (The Hundred Kisses) plus "L’Oiseau de Feu, Le Beau Danube" illus. with full page photo plates, advts, (2 col.) advt. For Kings Theatre and coming productions. Nice Mutual Store advt. Catanach’s rings, etc. Features col. painting of Norman Lindsay’s reproduced on front cover; pub. Melbourne 1937 or. illus. wrappers, cr.4to. pp.44, inc. covers. Fine copy.     Price: $35.00
     
  109. SALTER ELIZABETH Text. Helpman. The authorized biography of Sir  Robert  Helpman,  CBE With a foreword by Katherine Hepburn illus. with 86  full  page  b/w. plates  t/out.  pub. Syd. Angus &  Robertson  1978  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.248. Dustwrapper featuring the portrait of Sir Robert Helpmann by Judy Cassab, by permission of the Sydney Opera House Trust. Born in South Australia in 1909, encouraged by his ally, his indomitable mother, he overcame early opposition and humiliation to achieve outstanding theatrical success.   Price: $35.00
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  110. SCHWEZOFF IGOR Borzoi. illus. with full page plates t/out. &  2 full page plates t/out. and dec. in the text by  David Grey pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1935 or.cl. 8vo. pp.442.  Autobiography of Russian dancer, Igor Schwezoff. Schwezoff was born and trained in the Soviet Union and defected to the West in pursuit of artistic freedom. The decorative designs and endpapers are from drawings by David Grey. The author won £1000 with this book on account of royalties offered by the publisher in 1934 for an autobiography written in the English language. His manuscript was one of nearly 500 submitted. Shelf wear else a very good copy .  Price:  $40.00
     
  111. SEARLE HUMPHREY Ballet Music. An introduction. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. bibliography, discography, index;  pub. Lond. Cassell 1958  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.230. Fine in the sl. torn d/w.   Price: $35.00
     
  112. SEROFF VICTOR   The Real Isadora illus. with script decorated end papers, 29 b/w. plates  t/out.   Bibliography, index, pub. New York Dial Press 1971 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.442. Biography of the great dancer, Isadora Duncan [1878-1927]. Authoritative, birth-to-death account of an eternal heroine has been written by the musician who was her intimate friend at the close of her life. Chipped d/w. else fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  113. SEVERN MERLYN   Sadler's Wells Ballet At Covent Garden A Book Of Photographs, illus. with each page as a photograph from a ballet. (80 photographs). pub. London, Bodley Head 1947 or. black cloth, gilt stamped title cr.4to. (oblong), pp.80. Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn. Showing signs of shelfwear else very good copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  114. SEXTON  CHRISTOPHER  Peggy Van Praagh. A Dance  Of  Life. Foreword by Dame Ninette de Valois, introduction by Peter Brinson illus.   with  20  full  page  plates  t/out.  pub.   Melb. Macmillian  1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.226. Biography of Australian dancer, teacher, producer and artistic director.  d/w. faded to spine otherwise fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  115. SEXTON  CHRISTOPHER  Peggy Van Praagh. A Dance  Of  Life. Foreword by Dame Ninette de Valois, introduction by Peter Brinson illus.   with  20  full  page  plates  t/out.  pub.   Melb. Macmillian  1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.226. Biography of Australian dancer, teacher, producer and artistic director. Signed presentation copy.  d/w. little faded to spine otherwise fine.   Price: $50.00
     
  116. SHEARER  MOIRA Ballet Master. A Dancer's view  of  George Balanchine.  illus.  with 12 full page plates  t/out.  pub. Lond.  Sidgwick  & Jackson 1986 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.XII.180. George Balanchine, who died in 1983, was a father of modern ballet and one of the greatest choreographers of all time. Moira Shearer was one of the leading ballerinas of her generation and as a young dancer she danced for Balanchine in London. Born in Russia and trained as a dancer in the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Balanchine fled first to Europe and then to the United States where, after many tribulations and difficulties, he founded the New York City Ballet. Fine copy.   Price: $50.00
     
  117. SILVESTER VICTOR    Modern Ballroom Dancing illus. with numerous diagrams showing steps of various dance; pub. London Barrie & Jenkins 1974 or.cl. d/w. 12mo. pp.250. sl. chipped d/w. else fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  118. SOKOLOVA LYDIA Dancing For Diaghilev. The memoirs of Lydia Sokolova. ed. by Richard Buckle. illus. with frontis. &  14 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. John Murray 1960  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XI.288.   Price:  $60.00
     
  119. SORELL WALTER The Dance Through The Ages. A vivid,  richly illus. chronicle of ancient, oriental, folk, ballet, modern and experimental dance. profusely illus. with plates t/out. many  full  page  & col. pub. Lond. Thames  &  Hudson  1967 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.304.  "With a rare combination of discrimination, enthusiasm, and long experience as a critic, Walter Sorell traces the history of the dance from primitive rites to the dancers now exploring the frontiers of the art." Near fine copy.   Price:  $45.00
     
  120. SPARGER CELIA Anatomy And Ballet. A Handbook for Teachers of Ballet illus. with 37 x-rays and other photographs and 42 drawings. pub. London Adam and Charles Black, 1949 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp78. Very good in the chipped torn/d/w.   Price: $40.00
     
  121. SPENCER  CHARLES  &  PHILLIP  DYER  The  World  Of  Serge Diaghilev. profusely illus. with plates t/out. of which  14 are full page & col. pub. Lond. Paul Elek 1974 or.cl.  d/w. cr.4to. pp.174.    Price:  $35.00
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  122. TURNER W.J. The English Ballet. with 8 full page plates in col.  4  b/w. photo plates & 18 illus. in b/w.  pub.  Lond. Collins  1946  (Britain in Pictures Series).  or.dec.  bds. d/w. cr.4to. pp.48. fine.    Price:  $20.00
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  123. WILEY  ROLAND  JOHN  Tchaikovsky's  Ballets.  Swan   Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker. illus. with 8 full page plates t/out. pub. U.K. Oxford at The Clarendon Press 1986  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XVI.430.  Fine copy.   Price:  $125.00     Convert Currency  Parcel Costs
     
  124. WILSON G.B.L.    A Dictionary Of Ballet illus. with 31 plates, and line drawings pub. London, Cassell & Co. 1961 revised ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.314 d/w. creased, torn, inscription f/free e/paper, else good condition    Price: $35.00
     
  125. WILLIAMSON   AUDREY  Contemporary  Ballet.  illus.   with frontis.  & 60 full-page plates t/out. by outstanding ballet photographers illustrate the work of leading dancers and choreographers. pub. Lond.  Rockliff 1946  or. red cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.184. 3 sections: " General Aspects, " "The English Scene, " and " Ballet and the Future." The post-war ballet scene. sl. chipped d/w. else v/good.   Price: $35.00
     
  126. WOOLLIAMS ANNE  Ballet Studio.   An Inside View. with  e/paper illus. & b/w. photo plates t/out.  by outstanding ballet photographers illustrate the work of leading dancers and choreographers. pub. Lond.  Rockliff 1946  or. red cl. 8vo. pp.XII.184. Very good copy.   Price: $35.00
     
  127. ZEGLOVSKY VALENTIN Valentin Zeglovsky's Ballet Crusade Translated from the Russian. illus. with /w frontis photo and fifteen other b/w photos, plates tipped in; pub. Melbourne 1943 1st. ed. Printed on green, pink and blue paper or. quarter cloth pictorial boards cr.8vo. square pp.144. Boards little foxed. Short closed tear to lower spine else v/good.   Price: $45.00
     
  128. ZEGLOVSKY VALENTIN Valentin Zeglovsky's Ballet Crusade Translated from the Russian. illus. with /w frontis photo and fifteen other b/w photos, plates tipped in; pub. Melbourne 1945 reprint Printed on green, & plain paper or. quarter cloth pictorial boards cr.8vo. square d/ew. pp.132. Short closed tear d/w. else near fine   Price: $40.00
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