Search Results: Dance from Old Saratoga Books

NY: A. S. Barnes Company. Good with no dust jacket; Shaken, boards worn, front hinge cracked, . bookstore label on front free endpaper.. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with black and white photo of woman dancing mounted to front boards. Gilt titles on front boards and spine. Many black and white photos of women in bloomers and tights demonstrating dance steps. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages .

San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Very Good; Dance poem and gift inscription inscribed on inside front cover.. 1998. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0811821552 . Softcover with French Flaps. Preface by William A. Ewing. Critical commentary by William A. Ewing and Daniel Girardin. 79 duotone photographs. As much a dazzling photography book as it is a showcase of spectacular modern dance artistry. Lois Greenfield is the world's preeminent dance photographer and this book features dancers from Ballet Tech, Pilobolus, Demetrius Klein Dance Company, The Parsons Dance Company, Elisa Monte Dance, and others. ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall .

NY: Rinehart & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Photos, illustrations. Blindstamped black cloth. Index, list of Humphrey's choreographed works. The influential modern dancer outlines her theories and techniques of choreography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, spine cocked.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394505395 . Burgundy cloth binding. Many photos. A detailed autobiography by the late storied prima ballerina who started out as a eight-year-old dancer with St. Petersburg's Maryinsky School, danced with George Balanchine and Diaghilev in Paris and Monte Carlo at the Ballets Russe and directed her own touring company before teaching with the School of American Ballet. Winner of the 1986 de la Torre Bueno Prize for the best book in the Field of Dance Studies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages .

San Diego: Gulliver Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0152004289 . The classic ballet about the life-sized doll is retold by the legendary Dame Margot Fonteyn and richly illustrated with paintings by husband and wife illustrator team Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards faintly worn.. 1985. Hardcover. 0382092414 . Pictorial white boards. The story of the classic ballet with color illustrations by Krystyna Turska. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Guilford, VT: The Countryman Press. Good with no dust jacket; Rear hinge cracked, boards sunned.. 1937. Hardcover. Blue plaid cloth binding. A lively illustrated history of square dancing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner address label on front free . endpaper, jacket toned and shelfworn.. 1946. Second Edition. Hardcover. More illustrations and photos. A compilation of memories about such dancers as Nijinsky, DeMille, Balanchine, Graham, Pavlova, Duncan, etc. Unpaginated. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Shaftsbury, VT: West Mountain Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Tear at bottom edge of front jacket . panel.. 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. 0990867900 . Signed by Holland and Pendleton on the title page. Dark gray cloth. viii, 88 pages. Foreword, color photographs, and photo credits. Momix (Artistic Director Moses Pendleton) playbill laid in. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

NY: The John Church Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, last song (a Geisha Dance Song . for Japan) has penciled notations, and pages are semi-detached. Vintage . bookseller's ticket on front pastedown endpaper (Werner's of NYC) .. 1908. Hardcover. A compilation of songs and dance steps for America, England, Germany, Poland, France, Italy, Spain, Bohemia, Hungary and Japan. Words by Margaret E. Lacey, musical scores by Eduardo Marzo and dancing directions by Oscar Duryea. Each country has a color illustration of a man and woman in national dress. Burgundy buckram binding with gilt lettering stamped on front boards. ; Large Octavo; 102 pages .

NY: Tudor Publishing Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered.. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed by the author, then Dance Critic for the New York Times, to renowned dance photographer Barbara Morgan, on the front free endpaper. Illustrated blue cloth binding. Many photos of dancers, including Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Mary Wigman, Ted Shawn, Nijinsky, Doris Humphrey and many others. Kamin Dance Bookshop label on front free endpaper. Index. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages .

NY: Crown Publishers, Inc.. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly tattered, "book sale" . stamped on page tops.. 1967. Hardcover. Red cloth binding with silver lettering on spine and front boards. Index, 650 photos. "The most comprehensive pictorial and statistical record of the 1966-67 dance season in the United States." Includes ballet, ethnic dance and modern dance troupes. Includes short biographies of many choreographers and dancers. Library of Congress number 66-26820. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 224 pages .

NY: E. P. Dutton. Good in Good dust jacket; Foxing to edges and preliminary leaves.. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525243259 . Signed by dance photographer Barbara Morgan on the title page. Many photos. A companion book to the PBS television series outling the history of American dance and its many forms. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages .

Ghent, Belgium: Imschoot Uitgevers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edges rubbed, corners bumped.. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9072191218 . One of 2000 copies. Illustrated boards. Black and white and color photographs, illustrations, text in English and French. A focused study of avant-garde theater and opera highlighted with photography and commentary. Photographs by Helmut Newton. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 95 pages .

Brooklyn, NY: Dance Horizons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn and soiled.. 1975. Facsimile. Hardcover. 087127065X . Cloth-backed illustrated boards. Facsimile reprint of The Director, a magazine published by Melvin Ballou Gilbert of Portland, Maine from December 1897 through November 1898. Introduction notes that this was the first magazine published in America devoted to dance. The magazine also featured articles about physical culture, etiquette, deportment, and aesthetics. Includes reproductions of illustrations and vintage ads. Index. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 306 pages .

West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Co, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. 0132415054 . Blue cloth. Acknowledgements, black and white photos and illustrations, and index. A complete handbook of easy to teach dance exercises, movements, styles, finished compositions, music and creative ideas which can be adapted to any grade level or physical education program. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages .

NY: Kamin Dance Gallery. Good with no dust jacket; Underlining and notes, pages toned, owner name . and gift inscription on front flyleaf.. 1944. Hardcover. Translated by Mary Stewart Evans. Red cloth binding titled in gilt on spine. Illustrations. Reprint of the ballet dancer and instructor's 1820 dance treatise. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 59 pages .

NY: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Quarter-sized area of liftoff on rear . jacket panel, jacket price-clipped.. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670297712 . Signed by the author on the title page. xii, 252pp, photos, index, bibliography, appendix. A profile of the life and art of the late Danish ballet dancer Erik Bruhn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Random House. Good with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn, some smudged pages.. 1952. Hardcover. Many black and white photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages .

NY: Limelight Editions. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Foxing to page tops, jacket lightly . worn.. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0879100869 . Warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Many black and white photos. Index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages .