Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first revised hardcover edition, first printing of Balanchine’s Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, Revised and Enlarged by George Balanchine and Francis Mason. First Edition unstated, 1977 Doubleday. First Printing with no subsequent printing. Illustrated with over 75 black and white rehearsal and performance
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with light spots on the first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with heavy edge wear, chips gaps and tears. First state jacket with $15.00 price on the front flap and look great in archival wraps.
A short history of the ballet and a review of Balanchine’s own career as ballet master and choreographer accompany the stories of more than four hundred ballets
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