anthony gordon arnold haskell (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards. Marks on front end paper and title page. Crease on front end paper. Tears, with paper loss, creases, scuffing and dust spotting on jacket.

Zustand: Good. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, illusrated with full page tipp-in b/w plates, 4to.; Cover slightly worn; name on endpaper.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Anthony, Gordon (illustrator). First Edition. 1940 1st edition. 49pp + 63 plates. Blue cloth boards with minor rubbing/bumping to edges/spine. Contents clean and tight but for very minor soiling. Nice DW with some tears/tape repairs, minor loss, some chipping to edges, minor soiling/creasing. Beautiful B&W photo plates by Gordon Anthony. A photographic record of Sadler's Wells Ballet's 1939 production of Tchaikovsky's ''Sleeping Princess'' based on ''The Sleeping Beauty'', under the direction of Nicolas Segueeff and starring Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann. Includes 63 full page B&W plates. Also includes narrative on ''Tchaikovsky & the Ballet'', the decor & costumes of this production, and ''Aurora Truly Wedded'' concerning the various productions of the ballet. Scarce in DW. This is a heavy book that may attract additional postage costs - please contact me for details.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.

, 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:

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Anthony, Gordon (photographer) (illustrator). [32] p. 96 mounted pl. (incl. front., ports. ) 33 x 26 cm. Includes: Portraits, Plates. 0.0.

One of only 100 copies - not only signed by Anthony, but inscribed by Haskell too --- First edition of this lovely book - this copy from the limited edition of 100 copies (No. 42) signed by Gordon Anthony and inscribed "with all good wishes" by his co-author Arnold Haskell, a British dance critic and later director of the Royal Ballet School. "A record, a souvenir, and an eloquent tribute to the foremost dancers of our day" (Haskell, preface), containing nearly a hundred superb photographic studies of the 1930s ballet luminaries, some in rare roles and poses, including Leonide Massine, Tamara Toumanova, Anton Dolin, Alicia Markova, Ninette de ValoisAnthony's sister, a former dancer with Ballets Russes and a founder of The Royal Ballet. The plates are arranged by the dancers' companies: the De Basil Ballet, René Blum's company (the inheritors of the Diaghilev Ballet Russes), the Ballet Jooss, and the Vic Wells Ballet, each accompanied by notes on the history of these companies and brief biographies of the dancers portrayed. An attractive, fresh example of this extensive visual record of the Ballets Russes. Provenance: Physical description:Folio (32 x 26.5 cm). 241 pp. incl. half-title and title, with 96 black and white photographs tipped-in. Publisher's red calf spine over ivory buckram boards, spine with gilt lettering and blind-stamped fillets, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, publisher's red cloth slipcase. Condition:A few small scuffs and stains on spine, light staining on boards, slipcase a bit stained, scratched, and worn at edges; minimal soiling on title and bottom base of frontispiece. Bibliography: