Colonel Basil (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised. 144 page hardcover grammar, a revised edition of the 1881 original. Full cloth exterior with title on front cover in black, and faint on spine. Interior has prior owner name on front free end paper, otherwise unmarked, tight and clean.

Pamphlet. This is not a book. The schedule of dances for the Ballet Russe at the 51st Street Theatre, NYC, December 12, 1940 - January 8, 1941. The Ballet Russe performed for 15 weeks on Broadway between November 3, 1940 and January 12, 1941, following their fabled 1939-1940 Australia tour and before their 1941 Havana tour. This program, from the New York tour, featured such dances as Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides, Le Coq d'Or, Paganini, Prince Igor, Carnaval, Petrushka, Sheherazade, and Le Spectre de la Rose as well as David Lichine's Graduation Ball, which premiered during this Broadway run. Staple-bound, self-wrappers; 8 pages; b&w illustrations and photos; 4 x 5.5 inches. Condition: Very Good pamphlet with light soiling and light rubbing to the corners. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ex Library with just a few markings. Brown Cloth World bound, 286 pages.

10'' x 7½'' original stapled illustrated souvenir theatre programme. 4 printed pages with Savoy Grill advertisement across the front cover. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

10'' x 7½'' original stapled illustrated souvenir theatre programme. 4 printed pages with Savoy Grill advertisement across the front cover. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

10'' x 7½'' original stapled illustrated souvenir theatre programme. 4 printed pages with Savoy Grill advertisement across the front cover. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Paperback quarto, stapled pamphlet, very good condition, black & white text-photos & drawings (colour covers both sides), adverts, minor edgewear. 42 pp. Souvenir program for this ballet contains magnificent cover art by Normal Lindsay, from an original painting in the possession of Mr E. J. Tait, a managing director of J. C. Williamson Ltd. Produced by J. C. Williamson Ltd at His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne. Contains full-page portraits of Colonel W. de Basil, Leon Woizikowsky, Valentina Blinova, Helena Kirsova, George Gee, Valerie Hay, Donald Burr. (Estimated date, 1936 or 1937. Text mentions 1935, and an event scheduled later for 1938. Loosely inserted: Receipt for previous sale of this item.).

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 286pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Light bumping to the corners of the boards, light spotting of the preliminary pages; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (some chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. ROD0118365: 1912. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. XXI+280 pages. Frontispice en noir et blanc sous serpente. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.