Karsavina foreword (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition, first impression. 212pp, plus 36pp of black and white plate illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed and pushed at spine ends. Upper text block edge dull. A hint of spotting on endpapers. In its original dust wrapper, toned all over and heavily on spine, rubbed, chipped and rubbed at edges, with minor loss at crumbling spine ends. Serge Lifar was the leading proponent of classical ballet in the mid-20th century; and in this volume he writes for practitioners, talking through step by step his conception of a ballet dancer's training, while analysing classical positions and movements. Lancelot, Monique (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tight binding, solid black boards with gilt ballet shoe, bright gilt lettering to spine strip, light foxing early and late, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Condizione: Very Good. New impression. Hardback. Original cloth with wear and rubbing to extremities, rebacked retaining the original backstrip, otherwise about very good. No jacket.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Wonderful ballet and theatrical memoir. She knew everybody. 2nd imp. pp.xv.331. Illus. Frontis. Fore edge foxed.