How to Become a Good Dancer, New Revised Edition
Arthur Murray
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Add to basketSold by Andersons Asimov Books, Lake Oswego, OR, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 2 July 2025
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketArthur Murray, How to Become a good Dancer, Simon and Schuster, NY 1947 Revised Edition, Twentieth printing. Very good, unclipped, price $2.75, dust jacket. Fine hardcover in blue cloth boards with black and red lettering on the spine. The front cover features a dance couple in red with black titling. All 191 pages tightly bound and no marks of any kind. 7 3/4 x 11 weight 1.08 lbs.
Revised edition illustrated throughout with instructional photos and diagrams of dance steps. Generally fine in the original dust jacket, tattered but repaired. A classic WWII-era guide to dancing by Americas famed dance instructor, Arthur Murray, Murray (born Moses Teichman, 1895-1991) was born in Austria-Hungary but was brought to America by his family when he was but two years. At age 19, he went to New York and became a dance instructor at the Battery Park Hotel. With the outbreak of WWI, he changed his German sounding name to Murray. He produced dance-instruction records for the Columbia Gramophone Company. He studied business and founded his company with the name "Arthur Murray Studios". His television show "The Arthur Murray Party" in which he starred with his wife, ran on CBS for 11 seasons 1950-1960. His name became synonymous with dance lessons and at its peak there were over 3500 Arthur Murray Dance Studios.
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