Description: Condition Continued: There is a blending strip of reinforcing tape at the juncture between the blank verso of the half-title page and the blank verso of the frontispiece. Most of the junctures between the pages in the large section of illustrations at the rear of the book have the same blending reinforcement strip. The pages are quite heavy. I saw two instances of a thin space between facing pages in the section of illustrations. In both instances the pages are tightly bound from top to bottom. Both covers are solidly bound. The pages are exceptionally clean. I saw only one instance of a small spot at the margin of two facing pages. Three of the illustration pages have some toning off their bottom edges, not close to the illustrations which are all in very nice condition. Greenberg: Publisher, New York, 1932. Hardcover. Written by W. A. Propert. Preface by Jacques Emile Blanche. First American Edition (NAP; Greenberg= NAP). 'In memory of Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghileff and in fulfillment of a promise made to him in 1929 this brief record of an uncompleted decade has been written.' I checked to make sure that all of the illustrations are present. They are. There are four illustrations in the first section, the frontispiece photograph of Serge Diaghileff, a drawing of Serge Prokofieff by Natalia Gontcharova, a reproduction of Serge Lifar from a painting by P. Tchelitchev, and a reproduction of two costume designs also by Tchelitchev titled Ode. After page 103 the fifth Plate begins a section of Plates that ends at Plate XLVIII which is a photograph titled Njinsky Revisits The Ballet (June, 1929). In the picture: Njinsky, Grigorieff, Diaghileff, Benois, and Karsavina are identified. Besides being very clean, the pages are in excellent condition. I didn't see any creasing. There is one little minor crinkle at the white margin off the top edge of some of the pages in the final section. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. Off the top edge of the blank front end paper is penned 'Thomas J. F. Kelly, Ithaca College Phi mu Alpha' and off the bottom edge of the same page he has also written 'April 25th 1933.' There's no other writing to be found anywhere in the book.
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Publication Year: 1932
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: The Russian Ballet
Ex Libris: No
Author: W. A. Propert; Preface by Jacques Emile Blanche
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Illustrated
Topic: Russian Ballet
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Edition: First Edition
