Ballet Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony Haskell Arnold (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Two tone cloth, G+. 241pp, tipped in b/w frontis, 9+5 tipped in b/w plates, cloth stained to the upper board by a water splash ( the red cloth having run into the cream cloth ), slight foxing to the text pages, in the b/w plates in fine order. Photographic studies of 51 ballet stars from 5 ballet companies ( The De Basil Ballet, René Blum's Company, The Ballet Jooss, The Vic Wells Ballet & Alicia Markova & Anton Dolin's Company ). With Anthony's photography superbly capturing the larger than life atmosphere & presence of pre war Ballet. Dancers include Margot Fonteyn, Frederick Ashton, Anatole Vilzak, Leonide Massine, Lubov Tchernicheva etc etc. 3000 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gordon Anthony (illustrator). 1st Edition. Folio, vi + pp20 complete with the 96 tipped-in b/w photographic portraits of the dancers mounted on brown card. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers binding of cream cloth spine, with gilt titles, over royal blue cloth boards in good condition with a little shelf wear to top & tail of spine and tips of boards and a little marking to spine and boards. Inside except for some toning to endpapers all text pages and plates in very good clean and bright condition. Gordon Anthony was a British photographer, known particularly for his photographs of ballet and theatre in Britain becoming the portrait photographer to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford in 1933 with his photographs helping to make the Royal Ballet known across the world in the 1930s. This is a heavy book and may cost more postage overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Over-sized hardback book (no dust jacket titled BALLET: Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction and Notes by Arnold Haskell. First published in 1937 by Geoffrey Bles. Beautifully illustrated with 96 vintage black and white tipped-in photographs. Bound in buckram boards with maroon color leather spine. Boards show moderate scuffing/rubbing with light soiling - slightly cocked. International shipping will require additional charge. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-14-bottom-R) rareviewbooks Language: eng.

, 241 pages, 96 black and white tipped in photographs of ballet performers First Edition , rebacked, corners and edges rubbed, a couple of library stamps, pages and plates clean, binding firm, good condition , morocco spine with gilt titles, red and white cloth with gilt stamp to front , large quarto, 32cm x 26 cm Hardback ISBN:

Condition: Collectible; Good. [FIRST EDITION] London: Geoffrey Bles, 1937. Large hardcover in publisherâs quarter gilt-titled white cloth spine and red buckram. 4to, 242 pages with 96 b/w plates tipped onto backing sheets, text on cream paper with deckled edges. Introduction and Notes by Arnold Haskell. Minor soiing to covers, owner bookplate on front paste-down, light scattered foxing, else very good overall condition; no owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (lr).

Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Fading, scuffs, marks and knocks to cover with tanning to spine. Rough cut pages with tanning and foxing to edges and end pages. Contents very good.