Serge Lifar (417 results)

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 399pp. Red buckram boards. Good copy virtually unworn, spine is faded, text is clean, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Oversize paperback. Preface in French, commentary in back in French and English. The best thing I can say about the dust jacket is that it is still here, laid in, in pieces, brittle, and with a lot of chipping and edgewear. Book itself is in good condition, with fraying on top and bottom of spine, tiny chip on cover, closed tear across ffep, fold on title page, text pages are tanned and slightly brittle, photo pages are all very good, lightly tanned. Oversize book extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 332pp. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering to spiine. Spotting to upper portion of boards and top edges, book is otherwise clean and sound, inside and out, with no apparent wear, unclipped dust jacket is mildly worn and toned along top edge. Photo illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Oversize paperback. Text in French. The best thing I can say about the dust jacket is that it is still here, laid in, in pieces, brittle, and with a lot of chipping and edgewear. Staple-bound, with cover just barely hanging on around the staples. Chipping on spine, tanning, and small corner fold on cover, first few pages have tiny corner folds, curling, pages tanned, photo pages are very good. Oversize book extra shipping charges will apply, especially for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Text is in French. Has edge/corner wear and chipping at spine ends, age discoloration. Full of dramatic b&w photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NO DUST JACKET, CLEAN COPY.

Condition: Good. 1945. Reprint. 556 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water droplets to front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Small previous owners name and date on the front end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Repaired hinges. Cover wear. ; 328 pages.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 84pp texts and catalogue of the collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum; 7 colour, 175 b/w illus. From the library of Richard Buckle.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. voir photo.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. London: Sotheby's, May 1984. Softcover, fine condition, with prices realized and erratum slip laid in. With 228 works of art, manuscripts, and memorabilia catalogued, many illustrated in color and b&w, from the greatest period of Ballet in the twentieth century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In-12, broché, Bon Etat.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover12 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches, 54 pages. Text entirely in French. Handsome full page ads for luxury products. Covers have some edgewear. Light four by four inch dampstain on rear cover. Pages clean. Stamp of previous owner, Richard Warner, on initial ad. Article by Lifar "L'opera centre mondial la danse". No date of publication my guess about 1951.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ownership inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Burgundy boards with illust.unclipped jacket; Book is agetoned discoloured with light foxing on page edges, back hinge cracked. There is a fair bit of staining on back board and back endboards but text is unmarked; Jacket is intact some chips/tears but no big tears or missing pieces quite soiled; 556 pages with index, illust.by b/w photos throughout; A bio of one who is considered the father of the modern Russian Ballet, written by a dancer who came under his direction in the 1920's;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. A very good copy with some light sunfading to the spine and some light foxing without DJ. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #83.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 212 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, more notable to rear. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Condition: Good +. Location:260b 212 pp. + 35 plates dj torn 260b.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text is in French. Original publisher's brown cardstock wrappers with staple binding. Original black-and-white paper dust jacket included. Dust jacket is protected with a type of plastic or Mylar film (which is attached to the dust jacket with an adhesive). Front panel of dust jacket shows a black-and-white photographic illustration of dancer Irene Skorik and the following words: "Masques, Danse, No. 2, Imagier Bernand." Black lettering on white dust jacket spine. 9" x 12." Eighty-seven pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Five additional pages in back. Pages are very clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning, a former owner's bookplate tipped in on inside of front cover ("Ex Libris Ra Contu"), and a few bumps along bottom edges of last few pages. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight discoloration and slight tearing along staples (covers slightly torn from staples). Dust jacket is clean and intact overall but has a section measuring 3 1/2" x 2" at top that looks torn (piece is still attached). Dust jacket is clean and intact overall but has light age toning, some wrinkling on front, discoloration from the Mylar or plastic film's adhesive, and much rippling and wrinkling on back panel. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. This is a photo catalogue or viewbook paying tribute to French ballet and French ballet dancers. The booklet is principally composed of black-and-white photographic illustrations of French ballet dancers and production stills. The pages with the illustrations have no accompanying captions. Table des Images in back provides brief information for the illustrations. Preface by Serge Lifar. Text and Commentaries by Fernand Divoire. Some of the dancers shown in the illustrations: Irene Skorik, Michel Renault, Max Bozzoni, Roland Petit, Leslie Caron, Serge Lifar, and Yvette Chauvire. Some of the productions portrayed in the illustrations: Le Revenant, Jeux des Cartes, Le Prince Igor, Les Sylphides, Chevalier et la Damoiselle, Les Demoiselles de la Nuit, and Recontre.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (ballet, dance, dancing, biography) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Condition: Very Good. 1954. Hardcover. Clean copy in original cloth covers with gilt title to spine. Covers showing some light shelf wear. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition, 2nd reprint (1945). A very good book, in a fair DW; some repairs to rear and other slight nicks. Serge Diaghilev: His Life His Work His Legend: An Intimate Biography was written by the French dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar, who was the last star dancer and protégé of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The book was first published in 1940 and offers a unique, personal perspective on the legendary impresario.