Anthony Gordon and Arnold Haskell (2 results)

Hardcover. Red cloth boards, cream cloth spine with gilt lettering; bw laid-in frontispiece; 241 pp; profusely illustrated with bw mounted plates, mounted portraits. Includes bookplate inside front cover from well-known dance author and biographer, Richard Buckle. Camera studies by Gordon Anthony with an introductory and notes by Arnold Haskell. Includes a list of illustrations (pages 11-15). Good (soiling and overall rubbing and wear to boards, bookplate inside front cover, light foxing to page edges).…

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.…