Dance Books at Dial a Book Sydney

Shadowplay. The Life of Antony Tudor.
Perlmutter, Donna
Book Number: 67987
ISBN: 067083937x
Publisher: Viking Press, New York, 1991.
8vo. hardcover. 420pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, light foxing to outer edge of text-block. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Your Isadora, the love story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig
Steegmuller, Francis
Book Number: 67976
ISBN: 0394486986
Publisher: Random House, New York 1974.
8vo. hardcover. 399pp. b/w plates. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00

Love For Ballet.
Spencer, Sybil.
Book Number: 67979
ISBN: 094647429x
Publisher: Triplegate, England, 1985.
8vo. hardcover. 223pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

But First a School : The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet
Dunning, Jennifer
Book Number: 67991
ISBN: 067080407x
Publisher: Viking Press, New York, 1985.
8vo. hardcover. 242pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w. Signed by author.
Price: $75.00

Prodigal Son: Dancing for Ballanchine in a World of Pain and Magic
Villella, Edward
Book Number: 67980
ISBN: 0671723707
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992.
8vo. hardcover. 317pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Markova Remembers
Markova, Alicia Dame
Book Number: 67981
ISBN: 0241119537
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton. London 1986.
8vo. hardcover. 192pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Dance Writings
Denby, Edwin
Book Number: 67983
ISBN: 0394749847
Publisher: Knopf, New York 1986
8vo. softcover. 608pp. index. Very good, tiny scuff on front cover.
Price: $12.00

The King's Ballet Master: A Biography of Denmark's August Bournonville
Terry, Walter
Book Number: 67984
ISBN: 0396077226
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York 1979.
8vo. hardcover. 173pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine. / Good d/w.
Price: $45.00

Technique for the Ballet Artiste
Spessivtzeva, Olga
Book Number: 67968
ISBN:
Publisher: Frederick Muller, London 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 95pp. b/w plates. Very good. / Poor torn d/w.
Price: $65.00

Ballet in camera
Davis, Mike
Book Number: 67966
ISBN:
Publisher: Oldbourne Book Co., London, 1959
Large 8vo. hardcover. b/w illus. Very good, foxing, mainly to endpapers. / Fair, torn d/w.
Price: $15.00

100 Lessons in Classical Ballet
Kostrovitskaya, Vera S.; Briansky, Oleg (trans.)
Book Number: 67961
ISBN: 0385133731
Publisher: Doubleday & Co., New York 1981.
8vo. hardcover. 400pp. b/w illus. Very good, large owner's inscription on fep. / Good+, chipped d/w.
Price: $25.00

Ballet In Australia: The Second Act 1940-1980
Pask, Edward H.
Book Number: 67965
ISBN: 0195542940
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1982.
8vo. hardcover. 317pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w rubbed at top of spine.
Price: $18.00

The Ballerinas:From the Court of Louis XIV to Pavlova
Migel, Parmenia
Book Number: 67962
ISBN:
Publisher: Macmillan, New York, 1972.
8vo. hardcover. 304pp. index, b/w plates. Very good. / Good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Far from Denmark
Martins, Peter; Cornfield, Robert
Book Number: 67963
ISBN: 0316548553
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1982.
8vo. hardcover. 241pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Good+ d/w.
Price: $15.00

Stravinsky and Balanchine : A Journey of Invention
Joseph, Charles M.
Book Number: 66972
ISBN: 0300087128
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002.
8vo. hardcover. 439pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, small mark on fep & front pastedown. / Very good d/w creased on top edge.
Price: $35.00

Sight Lines
Croce, Arlene
Book Number: 66580
ISBN: 0394561643
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987.
8vo. hardcover. 364pp. index. Very good, light foxing to endpapers & outer edge of text block. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

My Journey through Dance
Lisner, Charles
Book Number: 66347
ISBN: 0702214299
Publisher: University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1979
8vo. hardcover. 191pp. index, b/w illus. Good, page edges toned. Good, faded d/w.
Price: $15.00

IREK MUKHAMEDOV, the Authorised Biography,
Taylor, Jeffery
Book Number: 66356
ISBN: 185702074x
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London, 1994.
8vo. hardcover. 237pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, page edges toned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

I, Maya Plisetskaya
Plisetskaya, Maya
Book Number: 66261
ISBN: 0300088574
Publisher: Yale University Press 2001.
8vo. hardcover. 356pp. b/w illus. Very good, owner's details on prelim. / Very good d/w. with crease on top edge.
Price: $45.00

Letters on Dancing and Ballets
Noverre, Jean Georges
Book Number: 66227
ISBN:
Publisher: Beaumont, London, 1951.
8vo. hardcover. 169pp., b/w illus. Good+, foxing to endpapers & page edges, owner's signature on fep. / Fair, torn & stained d/w.
Price: $18.00

Enter the Colonies, Dancing: A History of Dance in Australia 1835-1949
Pask, Edward H.
Book Number: 65230
ISBN: 0195505891
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Australia, 1979.
Small 4to. hardcover. 188pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, some tipped-in typed notes inserted by previous owner. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Ballets Russes
Shead, Richard
Book Number: 65185
ISBN: 186460154X
Publisher: Sandstone Books 1998
4to. hardcover. 192pp. index, colour illus. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $35.00

American Tap Dancing.
Raye, Zelia
Book Number: 20010
ISBN:
Publisher: Dancing Times, Hull, UK. 1938
black cloth, 8vo, d/w with shelf wear tears and chips, foxing and rubbed, end pages foxed, copy is clean and unmarked, rough cut page ends, b&w frontis of Raye, signed on fep. ., with inscription by author 'I hope you will find this book helpful. All the best Zelia Raye sydney 1945.' Illustrated chapter titles, Illus. throughout with diags, tables, explantations, and line drawings. Exam Syllubus. 50pp.
Price: $20.00

Nijinsky
Buckle, Richard
Book Number: 63983
ISBN: 0671211692
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1971.
8vo. hardcover. 482pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, remainder mark on bottom edge near spine. / Good+, creased d/w with small tear at botom of spine.
Price: $15.00

De Basil's Ballets Russes
Walker, Kathrine Sorley
Book Number: 63984
ISBN: 0091475104
Publisher: Hutchinson, London, 1982.
8vo. hardcover. 315pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good toned d/w.
Price: $30.00

Soviet Choreographers in the 1920s
Souritz, Elizabeth
Book Number: 63990
ISBN: 0822309521
Publisher: Duke University Press, 1990.
8vo. hardcover. 355pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

101 Scottish Country Dances - Including 23 Hitherto Unpublished
Jean C. Milligan Illustrated by Irene B. Stewart
Book Number: 35470
ISBN:
Publisher: Paterson's Publications 1957 reprint
12mo. Blue vinyl covers. Gilt title to spine and front board, with picture of couples dancing. 159pp. Covers rubbed otherwise good. PO Name in pen on ffl. Contents include The Steps, Progression, Formations, General Hints, Programme List, Dances Specially suitable for children, Reels, Jigs, Strathspeys, Medleys, Quadrilles, Waltz, A-Z index.
Price: $15.00

Serpent of the Nile - Women and Dance in the Arab World.
Buonaventura, Wendy
Book Number: 45767
ISBN: 0863566723
Publisher: Saqi Books November 16, 1989
4to Red cloth hardcover in d/w with light shelf wear along top edge, otherwise fine copy. Po name on half title. 208pp. A study of the history of the Middle Eastern solo woman's dance. Lavishly illustrated. "Serpent of the Nile" traces the origins of this ancient art, which survived in the face of commercialism, religious disapproval and changing times. Wendy Buonaventura demonstrates how Arabic dance came to be influenced by Western ideas about art and entertainment. But the influence was two-way. In the heyday of Orientalism, Arabic dance captured the imagination of writers and artists such as Flaubert, David Roberts and Jean-Leon Gerome, and imitators Colette and Mata Hari. Often based on common fantasies about Middle-Eastern women, this obsession produced evocative images and inspired fashion, theatre and popular entertainment. Scarce first edition hardcover.
Price: $125.00