THE SWAN PRINCE, STARRING MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV

Anastos, Peter

ISBN 10: 0553052187 / ISBN 13: 9780553052183

Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1987

About this Item

Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped. Gift dedication to fEP. A campy and amiable photographic fairy tale for adults, originally produced for the Christmas 1986 issue of the Paris Vogue w/proceeds of this volume donated to the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR). . Baryshnikov is a feckless bachelor prince with a swan fetish - a reverse Leda complex? --- who is being pressed by his queen mother to marry and produce an heir. All manner of gorgeous, but unfeathered, women are presented to him, and all are refused until one day . Some 76 unpaginated pages. Black & white photographs with captions (back cover, a young Baryshnikov in a 'bubble bath' of feathers). A delightful parody of a classic ballet.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SWAN PRINCE, STARRING MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
• Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553052187
• ISBN 13: 9780553052183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Arthur Elgort (Photographer)
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humor/Wit
  • Performing Arts/Drama/Plays/Opera/Dance/Music

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Synopsis

Once upon a time there was a prince who was obsessively preoccupied with swans. Thus begins The Swan Prince, an affectionate, humorous takeoff of the classical ballet conceived by none other than classical ballet's greatest living dancer.