Author: AUSTIN, RICHARD
Title: The Ballerina
Description: London, Vision. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 01854781439). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket which is plastic protected. The author was for many years the critic for the journal Ballet Today and his book is a study of the dance and the classical ballerinas, seen in terms of aesthetics rather than technique. It serves to place the ballerina within the historical development of her art and in relation to a far wider cultural background than is usual in works of this nature. Full page photographs of Anna Pavlova, Olga Spessivtzeva, Margot Fonteyn and Natalia Makarova. NOT EX LIB C3A. Fine/Fine.

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