Descharnes Robert Clovis Prévost Preface (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Revised edition. Large quarto volume in dust jacket. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ spine slightly sun-faded; DJ shows light shelf-wear; else fine in near fine DJ. 252 pages.

Bound in cloth, with dust jacket. 31x26 cm. Many (full-page) ills in colour. 251 p. -good.-(Some shelf wear, but otherwise the book is in good condition.). ISBN 1851703195.

Hard. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First edition thus. Revised edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1982, first printing. 4to., 10 1/4" x 12", 251pp., lavishly illustrated with over 300 b/w and color plates. Preface by Salvador Dali. Orange cloth with gilt titles. Mild foxing to endpapers, else fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and a stain on the rear panel.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Tear to jacket crown at corner of front panel, with a few related weak creases. Rubbing to jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The less common Stephens edition in English. Illustrations throughout - some tipped in. Cloth boards, gilt tiling, fine. Dj is sunned more so around spine and top of rear panel, minor marks, near fine. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".