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COMPLETE BOOK OF BALLETS : A Guide to the Principal Ballets of Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by CYRIL W. BEAUMONT
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: PUTNAM, 1937 Full aquamarine grained morocco leather boards with 5 raised bands and gilt blocked titles to spine. 220 x 145 mm approx. Hand sewn two colour head and tail bands, top edge gilt, xxvi + 1100 pp. Frontis + 184 other b/w photo illustrations all as called for. First Edition 1937 in a signed fine binding by Best and Co. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Book- fading to leather and insect damage - probably wood lice (Pill Bugs) to bottom edges mainly to rear board. Browning bands to free end papers from leather turn ins and ink previous owner name and source to front free end paper. No other notable defects, board covers are darker - image lightens). A heavy tome and an additional charge will need be made for overseas shipping.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133548
- Title
- COMPLETE BOOK OF BALLETS : A Guide to the Principal Ballets of Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Author
- CYRIL W. BEAUMONT
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- PUTNAM
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Complete Book of Ballets, Cyril W Beaumont, Fine Leather bindings, Performing Arts, Dance,
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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