Results for: Ballet and Dance


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Let's Dance
BARRETT, Victor
London Frederick Muller, (1955). Illustrations posed with Doreen Freeman. Photos by Jack Blake. 12mo. Boards. 70 p . 1st ed. Bumped at top edge of front cover; else about fine in lightly worn d.w. with a bit of edgewear & two tiny chips.

Price: $12.50

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Discothèque Dances
BLAKE, Dick
Cleveland & New York: World Publishing Company, (1965). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. 110 p . 1st ed. Fine.

Price: $15.00

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Antonio and Spanish Dancing
BRUNELLESCHI, Elsa
New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, (1958). Illus. with photos. Small 4to. Yellow boards, stamped in red. 96 p . 1st American ed. Fine in near fine d.w. with a tiny tear at top edge of rear panel.

Price: $22.50

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Advanced Ballroom Dancing: The Revised Theory and Technique
BRYANT, Carl
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., (1953). Illus. with photos & diagrams. Small 8vo. Boards. 336 p . 1st ed. Very good.

Price: $22.50

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Skips and Rhythmical Activities For Kindergarten's and Schools
BUCKINGHAM, Dora I
Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1923. 4to. Wraps. 27 p . Very good.

Price: $10.00

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George Balanchine, Ballet Master: A Biography
BUCKLE, Richard, in collaboration with John Taras
New York: Random House, (1988). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Cloth. 409 p . 1st American ed. Fine in d.w.

Price: $12.50

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How to Tap Dance
CASTLE, Nick
Hollywood: Nick Castle Dances, (1948). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Wraps. 18 p . Fine.

Price: $22.50

Contains directions for the "Bill Robinson Step," the "Ann Miller Step," the George Murphy Step (Soft Shoe Style)," the "Nicholas Brothers Step," the "Shirley Temple Step (Waltz Clog)" & the "Carmen Miranda Step (Samba Boogie Tap)"

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Folk Dances of the Southwest
CONLEY, Florence, transcribed & arranged for piano by
Pleasant Hill, Calif.: Conley Music Studio, 1967. 4to. Wraps. 16 p . About fine.

Price: $25.00

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A History of the Folk Dance Movement in California: With Emphasis on the Early Years
GETCHELL, Larry
No place: Folk Dance Federation of California, Inc., 1995. Small 4to. Wraps. 123 p . About fine.

Price: $25.00

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Penelope Spencer and Other Studies
HASKELL, Arnold L
London: British-Continental Press, 1931. Foreword by Gustav Holst. Illus. with photos. Small 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. 39 p. + ads . Artists of the Dance V. 2nd ed. About fine.

Price: $22.50

Also contains"Hommage à Florence Mills," in which Haskell ranks the African American dancer "on a par with any of the admittedly great artists of the dance" and traces her influence on Penelope Spencer, "Alicia Markova and the Classical Tradition" and "Tilly Losch"

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Oakland Ballet: The First 25 Years 1965-1990
HUCK, William
San Francisco: San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, (1990). Foreword by Ronn Guidi. Illus. with photos. Oblong 8vo. Wraps. 80 p . San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum Journal, No. 3. Name stamp on title page; else fine.

Price: $25.00

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Harbor Rhythms: Songs and Accompaniments about Boats and the Harbor for Elementary Schools
JAMES, Phoebe
Pacific Palisades, Calif.: Self-published, 1948. Small 4to., spiralbound. Wraps. xiii, 61 p . Some staining along spine; else very good.

Price: $15.00

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Learn to Mambo
JOE PIRO DANCE STUDIOS, "KILLER JOE"
New York: Mambo Productions, (1955). Illus. with photos. Small 4to. Wraps. 31 p . Fine.

Price: $30.00

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Dance Beat: Selected Views and Reviews 1967-1976
JOWITT, Deborah
New York & Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., (1977). 8vo. Wraps. xi, 211 p. With errata slip laid in . 1st ed. Very good.

Price: $12.50

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Classical Ballet: The Flow of Movement
KARSAVINA, Tamara
New York: Theatre Arts Books, (1978). Intro. by A. H. Franks. Illus. with photos & line drawings. Small 4to. Boards, 94 p . Fine in d. w.

Price: $12.50

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Blast at Ballet: A Corrective for the American Audience
KIRSTEIN, Lincoln
New York: Self-published, 1938. 8vo. Wraps. 128 p . 1st ed. Cover wear & soiling, beginning to separate at top & base of spine, first & last leaves darkening (as in probably all copies). A good copy.

Price: $30.00

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Ein Leben für den Tanz: Erinnerungen
LABAN, Rudolf von
Dresden: Karl Reißner Verlag, 1935. With illus. by the author. 8vo. Orange cloth, stamped in black. 226 p . 1st ed. A tiny bit of foxing on cover; else fine.

Price: $45.00

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Peppermint Lounge Twist Favorites
LANE, John, arranged by
New York: Robbins Music Corporation, 1962. Small 4to. Wraps. 24 p . Fine.

Price: $25.00

Contains such old favorites as Mama Loves Papa Twist, In a Little Spanish Town Twist, Ruby-Duby-Du, Gonna Do the Fish, I'm a Ding Dong Daddy Twist, etc

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Petrouchka by Igor Stravinsky
LAWRENCE, Robert, as told by
New York: Random House, (1940). B/w & color illus. by Alexandre Serebriakoff. Pictorial endpapers in red and black. Small 4to. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. 39 p . Authorized edition of the Ballet Russe. Light wear at corners; else near Fine in price-clipped d/j which is lightly worn at extremities & has 1" chips at top & base of spine.

Price: $35.00

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Puti Baletmeistera
LOPUKHOV, Fedor
Berlin: Petropolis, 1925. Risynki P. Goncharova. 8vo. Wraps. 173 p . 1st ed. A bit bumped at top & base of spine; else very good.

Price: $100.00

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Advanced Square Dance Figures of the West and Southwest
OWENS, Lee and Viola Ruth
Palo Alto,CA: Pacific Books. 1950. lst.. Music arraigned by Viola Ruth. 8vo. 143 p. Grey boards . Name stamp front/rear endpapers and edges, else VG+ in lightly worn d/j.

Price: $18.50

29 dance calls, with description and music, plus ten advanced or exhibition "trimmings"

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The Art of Flamenco
POHREN, D. E
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain: Editorial Jerez Industrial, (1962). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Green cloth, stamped in gilt. 204 p . 1st ed. Note with instructions on how to order the book from the author stapled to the endpaper, spine lightly sunned; else fine in fine d.w. with a short tear at top of front fold.

Price: $30.00

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Feelings Are Facts: A Life
RAINER, Yvonne
Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, (2006). Illus. with photos. 8vo. Cloth. xvi, 473 p . 1st ed. Fine in near fine d.w.

Price: $22.50

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Bare Feet
RATHER, Lois
Oakland: Rather Press Addenda, 1992. With tipped-in photo. 8vo. Wraps. 21 p . 1st ed. One of 28 copies. SIGNED "Lois." Fine.

Price: $45.00

Memoir of Rather's time with the Betty Horst Dance Group in the early 1930s

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Dancing Days
RATHER, Lois
Oakland: Rather Press Addenda, 1993. With two tipped-in photos. 8vo. Wraps. 31 p . 1st ed. One of 28 copies. SIGNED "Lois." A little wear around edges; else fine.

Price: $37.50

Account of the author and her husband's involvement with the folk dance movement in the Bay Area

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School Rhythms for the Kindergarten and Lower Primary Grades
ROBINSON, Ethel M
Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1923. 4to. Wraps. 48 p . Very good.

Price: $12.50

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The Dancer's Quest: Essays on the Aesthetic of the Contemporary Dance
SELDEN, Elizabeth
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1935. Illus. with photos. Small 4to. Orange cloth, stamped in gilt. xv, 215 p. +32 plates . 1st ed. Name on endpaper, light cover soiling; else very good.

Price: $30.00

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Let's Dance - Country Style: A Handbook of Simple, Traditional Dances
SMEDLEY, Ronald and John Tether
London: Paul Elek Books Limited, (1972). Illus. by Rowland Howls. Technical drawings by John Barber. 12mo. Boards. 128 p . Life and Leisure Series. 1st ed. Fine in fine d.w.

Price: $15.00

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Some Classic Dances of Japan: Being the Text of the Lecture-Demonstration Given by Him before the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London, 10th December, 1933
UMEMOTO, Rikuhei
London: Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, 1934. Trans. by Yutuka Ishizawa. Ed. by Cyril W. Beaumont. Illus. with photos. 8vo. Boards, paper labels. 67 p . 1st ed. About fine in original glassine wrapper (somewhat chipped).

Price: $37.50

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