LONDON: WERNER LAURIE. First published in 1949, this is the 5th impression(1953). Ex-Library book. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. Protective clear cover over DJ. Not price clipped. Library coding label on DJ spine. Slight Peeling on edges of plastic cover/edge of DJ. DJ has a paper backing. Light blue boards. Issuing form with library card on front free endpaper. Library sticker on front pastedown. NB: Library stamps in a few places throughout the book(slightly affecting text). Pages are tanned and have slight soiling/foxing on page edges. Overall clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Robust copy. The stories that inspired Ballets. Illustration on DJ features Monica Inglesby(Odette) and Jack Spurgeon(Prince Siegfried) in a scene from Swan Lake(Le Lac Des Cygnes). Colour frontispiece(as on DJ) and black and white plate illustration(photographs). Location: GRA1Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Good. Hardcover. 5TH IMPRESSION.. 1953.

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Seller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 017199
Title: STORIES OF THE BALLETS
Author: GLADYS DAVISON
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 5TH IMPRESSION.
Publisher: WERNER LAURIE
Place of Publication: LONDON
Date Published: 1953
Bookseller catalogs: Ballet BOOKS;

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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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...