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London, UK: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. First Edition. 1st Printing.. Hardcover. Good-/No Jacket. 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.1. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good-. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Geoffrey Bles, London, UK 1939. First Edition. 1st Printing. xxvi + 96 pages. 96 wonderful full length photos. Moderate general wear. Top of spine missing. Binding soiled. 2 pages in back damaged by flowers. Size: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.1. Media/Performing Arts::Dance 6187L 6187L

Geoffrey Bles, 2 Manchester Square, 1937. 1st edition.. Hardback. 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.

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1937 Hardcover, large folio, first edition. 241 pages. A massive book of 96 Camera portraits of Ballet Dancers taken by Gordon Anthony including all the greats of Ballet. A Very Good Book without inscription. Quarter buckram? with Red boards. No dustjacket. Ocaissional foxing, not affecting plates. Pictures available

Hardcover. Good. [FIRST EDITION] London: Geoffrey Bles, 1937. Large hardcover in publisher’s 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)

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, presented in an attractive new leather binding. A series of photographic studies of the stars of both Russian ballet companies at the time, including a portrait of the choreographer Michael Fokine, young Serge Lifar, Irina Baronova, Anton Dolin, Alexandra Danilova, Frederick Franklin, Tamara Grigorieva, David Lichine, Alicia Markova, Marc Platoff, Leonide Massine, Mia Slavenska and others. Gordon Anthony was born James Gordon Dawson Stannus in Wicklow, Ireland on 23 December 1902. He started working in photography in 1926, making images of the students at his sister's ballet school in London. In… Read More