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Croce, Arlene.

New York: Knopf, 1977. Black cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. First edition, Croce's first collection of dance criticism. ... more info

Price: $15.00

Dans Theater.

Elsken, Ed Van der and Eddy Posthuma de Boer.

Utrecht: A.W. Bruna, [1960]. Black pictorial wrappers, little wear at the top of the spine; text foxed. Very good. ... more info

Price: $30.00

Tánc. M Mozgásmuvészet Könyve. Angelo, Jugo Erfurth (Dresden) és Máte Olga Felvételeivel. [Dance. The Book of the Art of Motion. With Photographs by Angelo, Hugo Erfurth and Olga Máté].

Szentpál, Olga and Rabinovszky, Márius.

Budapest: Altalános Nyomda, 1928. Original blue cloth, faded. 100 (4) pp. 28 plates of photographs. One of 30 numbered copies. Inscribed by the author to the photographer Pál Funk Angelo. Olga Szentpál (1895-1968) was a Hungarian pioneer of modern dance, choreographer, teacher, and theoretician. After her studies at the Hungarian Academy of Music she gained her diploma at Emile Jacques-Delcroze's school in Hellerau. She opened her own school in 1919 and in 1926 established the Szentpál Dance Group. Her husband Marius Rábinovsky was an art historian, and teacher at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. The photographer Pál Funk Angelo was trained... more info

Price: $1,750.00

The Dance of Death. By William Herman. Author's Copy.

(Bierce, Ambrose).

[n.p., San Francisco]: (1877). A famous literary hoax, "The Dance of Death" is an attack on the waltz, which is characterized as "an open and shameless gratification of sexual desire and a cooler of burning lust." Bierce's collaborator Harcourt had been an editor on the Overland Monthly, and was employed in H.H. Bancroft's literary factory, Franklin Walker calls him "a brilliant but erratic scion of British nobility who had gone to school in Germany, had adventured in India, and was in California looking for excitement" (San Francisco's Literary Frontier). His father-in-law was the prominent photographer William Herman Rulofson whose loathing for the waltz induced... more info

Price: $2,750.00

The New York City Ballet. Photographs by Martha Swope and George Platt Lynes.

Kirstein, Lincoln.

New York: Knopf, 1973. Large quarto, cloth, fine copy in lightly used dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $50.00