Grandier Lydia Landon (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 124pp. Red buckram cloth, black lettering. Fading mainly to spine, litght soil to cover, bit of foxing to endpapers, contents mildly age-toned. Active performance photographs from the 1940s.

Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto, one name in pencil, very good in cloth.

hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: NONE. 124 clean, unmarked, tight pages with moderate tanning; cover is clean and sturdy with a little edge and corner wear and some sunning on spine and back; NO DUST JACKET.

Condition: some sunfading to cloth binding; else in very good condition. Illustrated by B&W photos. 1st edition. Binding is cloth.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Foreword by Anton Dolin. Text and arrangement by Lydia Landon Grandier. Includes over 140 black and white photographs by Constantin. A tight near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some edge tears, small chips, some slight foxing, and a few small tape repairs to the verso. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. Foreword by Anton Dolin. Over 140 b/w photographs by Constantine. Dust jacket (unclipped; few short tears). Original black board slipcase (rubbed). Very good. 124 pages. Photographs of over 100 different dancers, including Agnes de Mille, Nora Kaye, Alicia Markova, Jerome Robbins, Tamara Toumanova, James Starbuck, Zorina, et.al. Extra shipping for Canada and non US orders.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Constantine - Photographer (illustrator). First Edition. Signed & Inscribed & Dated By Photographer Constantine (Constantine Hassalevris). Signed & Inscribed & Dated By Photographer.

First edition of this photographic compilation showcasing the artistry of ballet. Imperial octavo, original publisher's cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs by Constantine Hassalevris. Signed by the author and the photographer on the half-title page. Presentation copy, inscribed by Raymond Chandler to Sybil, the daughter of Jean Fracasse, "For my Sybi With all my love Ray La Jolla Feb 6th 1958 - The man on page 70 is me, but I wear pants nowadays R." Raymond Chandler was a groundbreaking American writer, best known for his creation of the hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe and his influential contributions to the noir genre. Jean Fracasse, later Vounder-Davis, was Chandler's secretary. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities and light toning. Souvenir de Ballet (1947), compiled by Lydia Landon Grandier with photography by Constantine Hassalevris, is a visually rich tribute to the artistry of ballet. Featuring over 140 black-and-white photographs, the book captures the movement and expression of more than 100 dancers, including renowned figures such as Agnes de Mille, Alicia Markova, and Jerome Robbins. With a foreword by Anton Dolin, the work contextualizes the significance of ballet as both a performance art and a cultural tradition. Grandierās curation, paired with Hassalevrisās dynamic imagery, preserves the ephemeral beauty of dance, making Souvenir de Ballet a valuable historical and artistic document within the field of dance studies.