Search Results: the book of the dance by arnold genthe

Paperback / softback. New.

Golden Press. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. New.

Boston, Massachusetts: International Publishiers, 1920. Hardcover. Fair boards with good interior ( Ex-Library from Visual Studies Workshop with sticker on lower spine and on rear pastdown; boards are heavily worn and inner hinges is cracked; textblock edges are lightly toned and edgeworn; interior is clean with light toning and occasional smudging.). Black boards with gilt lettering and design; xvii, [20]-227 pp.; richly illustrated.

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New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cloth covers with light fading. Internally clean. Mild gutter crack. Black and white photographs throughout. Record # 368854

Mitchell Kennerley. Used - Very Good. 1916. Hardcover. dj., octavo, illus. Clear plastic dj. Some shelf-wear. Faded gold in-lay on cloth cover. Some browning to inside front and back covers. Torn top corner to first two pages immedietly inside front cover. Very Good. (Subject: Dance).

Boston, Massachusetts: International Publishers, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. 26 x 17.5 cm. xvii, 21-228pp. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and design. Color frontispiece. Consists of the forward followed by full page photographs of dancers. Fading to the cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. Book. Good (Book Condition). Hardcover. First Edition. Good only. Both hinges started, wear and fading to covers and one page loose. Of particular interest is the ownership signature of the Canadian Photographer Sam Tata. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

Mitchell Kennerly, New York, 1916. Very good. 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, xvii,227 pages, cloth, some fading and soiling.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. First edition. Hard Cover. vg. Quarto. Brown buckram cloth with gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. 227pp Some fading to spine as well as fading to top of back cover. Over 100 plates illustrating all schools of the Dance. Front inner joint lightly cracked.

Boston: International Publishers, 1920. Hardcover. G- (Some nicks in binding, with several small portions missing along top front edge; flyleaves are heavily tanned, which pages less so as you work your way in; illus. are clean.). Brown cloth, gilt letters and decoration on front cover, 228 pp., BW & color illus. German-born American photographer Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) shares here photographs he has taken of dancers. "My object was not to make a book of personalities," he says. "I merely wanted to show some of the phases of modern dance tendencies that could be recorded in a pictorially interesting manner. This, therefore, is meant to be just a picture book, permanently recording something of the fugitive charm of rhythmic motion, significant gesture and brilliant color which the dance has once more brought into our lives." Nearly all are of individual women. Why not depict ballroom dancing couples? "That will have to wait until women can have dancing partners attired in other costumes than the… Read More

Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Rebound with leather spine. Original front cover sewn in with cardstock backing. Bookplate of dancer/professor Joanna Gertz Harris on first blacnk page.