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photograph was taken about 5 or six years ago, on one of my
busy days. 235 x 182 mm. With photographer's handstamp (Photo
Serge Lido... Paris) to verso. Photograph very slightly worn;
inscription slightly light; the word "with" smudged with some
loss; remnants of tape to verso. (20433) $115.
539. [BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Beaumont, Cyril, ed. A
Bibliography of the Dance Collection of Doris Niles & Serge
Leslie Annotated by Serge Leslie. London: C.W. Beaumont,
1966; 1968; 1974; 1981. 4 volumes. Part I A-K: vii, 279; Part II
L-Z: 289-594 + [i] Corrigenda to Part I; Part III A-Z Mainly 20thcentury
publications: 290; Part IV A-Z Mainly 20th-century
publications: 283 pp. With subject indices to each volume.
Corrigenda to Part II loosely inserted. (20030) $285.
Striking Photograph of Dolin by Seymour
546. DOLIN. Striking bust-length photograph signed in the
plate by Maurice Seymour. 252 x 202 mm. Inscribed Gunnar
from Pat March 1943. Several creases, not affecting image.
(20742) $225.
547. [DUNCAN, Isadora]. Genthe, Arnold. Isadora Duncan
Twenty Four Studies... With a foreword by Max Eastman. New
York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1929. Quarto. Full black
cloth with titling and device gilt to upper and titling gilt to spine.
6ff. + 24 photographic plates. Binding slightly worn; extremities
of spine and corners slightly frayed; ownership signature to front
free endpaper. (19145) $135.
Limited to 525 copies of which 500 were released for sale First Edition. Derra de Moroda 1066. Niles & Leslie I p. 194.
540. [BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Malkin, Mary Ann O'Brian.
Dancing by the Book: A Catalogue of Books 1531-1804 in the
collection of Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin. New York: Privately
Printed, 2003. Large octavo. Full cloth. xxii, 246 pp. Profusely
illustrated and with full bibliographic information for each book.
New. (5117.1) $100.
Limited to 400 copies. Malkin's collection is now at
Pennsylvania State University.
541. BLASIS, C[arlo] 1795-1878. Notes Upon Dancing,
Historical and Practical... Followed by a history of the Imperial
and Royal Academy of Dancing, at Milan, to which are added
Biographical Notices of the Blasis Family, interspersed with
various passages on Theatrical Art. Edited and Translated, from
the original French and Italian, by R. Barton. With engravings.
London: M. Delaporte, 1847. Octavo. Quarter dark brown leather
with cloth boards. 1f. (title), ii, 190 + [i] pp. + engraving of Blasis
opposite p. 86 + 1 folding leaf opposite p. 148 and an engraved
plate depicting a monument to Virginia Blasis opposite p. 187.
Binding worn, with crude titling and library call number in white
ink to spine. Browned; occasional pencilling; lacking pp. 21-24
(supplied in photocopy and loosely inserted); library stamps,
including perforations to title. With a frontispiece engraving of
Virginia Blasis. (16009) $100.
Derra de Moroda 387. Niles & Leslie I p. 51. Beaumont p. 17.
542. DANCE PERSPECTIVES. New York: Dance
Perspectives, 1959-1966. 56 issues dated from 1959 to 1976, nos.
1-66. Lacking nos. 17, 18, 40-44, 51-52, and 57. Together with
indexes to Vols. 1-11. (20028) $385.
A very substantial run of this important dance periodical.
543. DANCE PERSPECTIVES. Individual issues: Nos. 2,
3, 4, 20, 26, 42, 61, 62 and 66. (18068) $5 per issue
544. DOLIN, Anton 1904-1983. Photograph signed and
inscribed. 253 x 205 mm. Signed Bruno Hollywood NYC in the
plate in white ink. With small circular handstamp (Photo Repros
Senis Solomonoff... Chicago) to verso. Slightly worn and creased.
Magriel p. 37. The soft-focus photographic plates are all studies
of Duncan (with the exception of plate 24); the final plate is of a
group of female dancers surrounding Duncan, most probably the
"Duncan Dancers."
548. GAZZERA, Constanzo 1779-1859. Autograph letter
signed to a friend. 1 page of a bifolium. Quarto. Dated Turin,
January 29, 1850. In Italian. Gazzera writes on behalf of Gabrielli
Bezzi, a young student at the ballet school of the Teatro Grande
[in Turin] for the past three years. She is taking her final
examination and is one of the best students; Gazzera hopes that
his friend can arrange for one of the directors of the theatre to
give her a recommendation. Slightly worn and dusty at edges.
(20687) $75.
Gazzera was a noted 19th century historian and "man of letters."
549. [GRAHAM, Martha]. Morgan, Barbara. Martha
Graham Sixteen Dances in Photographs. New York: Duell, Sloan
and Pearce [1941]. Quarto. Original cloth. 160 pp. With a signed
ownership inscription to the free front endpaper. Binding soiled,
slightly stained and shaken. (15716) $50.
First Edition of this photographic study of one of the towering
figures of 20th century dance by the noted dance photographer
Barbara Morgan.
550. GUILLEM, Sylvie b. 1965. Signed colour photograph.
Three-quarter length, 294 x 202 mm., with photographer's
handstamp (Copyright by Petra Bober München) to verso.
(20746) $50.
Guillem, a French ballerina, danced with the Paris Opera Ballet
from 1984 to 1989 before becoming a principal guest artist with
the Royal Ballet in London. Ex-libris Cecil Hopkinson.
551. HASKELL, Arnold L. Some Studies in Ballet. South
Kensington [London]: Lamley and Co., [1928]. Folio. Original
publisher's heavy printed wrappers with photographic illustration
of Vera Trefilova laid down to upper. 198 pp. With attractive
photographic studies of Trefilova, Karsavina, Pavlova, Dollin,
Nemtchinova and Markova laid down. Binding slightly worn and
rubbed. (15721) $125.
(20436) $120. First Edition, limited to 375 copies. Derra de Moroda 1263.
"Anton Dolin" was the stage name of Sydney Francis Patrick
Healey-Kay.
545. DOLIN. Photograph signed and inscribed to John
Christopher, 193 x 153 mm. (20435) $75.
Niles & Leslie I p. 223. Magriel p. 17. Ex-libris the noted English
ballet historian and antiquarian Cecil Hopkinson, with his
distinctive bookplate designed by Alexandre Benois printed in
colour to verso of upper wrapper.
552. LA MERI 1899-1988. Postcard photograph signed,
137 x 87 mm. of La Meri in costume by Catherine Bell, London.