Ballet

[Cecil Beaton]

Beaton's personal account of his love affair with ballet. The book covers Beaton's lifelong interest in ballet, from watching The Palace Girls when young, through the Ballets Russes and Sadler's Wells, to designing productions for The Royal Ballet. His reminiscences and artistic comments are accompanied by his photographs and drawings of the great stars and choreographers of ballet from the first half of the 20th century - Lydia Lopokova, Leonide Massine, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Kyra Nijinska, Margot Fonteyn, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Christian Berard and Lord Berners.



Cecil Beaton. Allan Wingate. London. 1951. First edition. Hardback, octavo; purple cloth-bound boards with silver titles, lacking dust jacket, purple top edge. 86 pages. 64 b&w hors-texte plates, numerous b&w text illustrations, colour illustrated title-page. English. 230 x 155mm. 0.5kg. . Fair; lacking dust jacket, light wear and marks to boards, discolouration to spine, some browning to endpapers, previous owner's name to front endpaper; from our Imperfect Shelves and thus sold at a reduced price, with no frills but reliable packaging.