Paris: 1923. In original paper. 26 p. Very rare special issue of the review published on the occasion of the ball organized by the Union of Russian Artists for the benefit of the artists' relief fund. Illustrations by Lebedeff, Lhote, Gontcharova, Fujita, Larionov, Survage, Braque, Metzinger, Picasso, Delaunay, Pascin, Zadkine..... More
Prague: Around 1930. Original leaflet pasted on hard cardboard. Ervin Kupferová (1899- 1977) was the wife of František Drtikol, More
![Item #3807 Guide du cotillon et les danses de salon. [bound with:] Les danses de salon. P. Bail,...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[Paris]; Paris: [Maison Bail et Stilb]; chez l’auteur, [n.d. (ca. 1890s)]; 1895. First editions. Two works bound in one volume. Contemporary half leather over marbled paper boards; smooth spine ruled in gilt and lettered, signed Duchemin. Detailed French manuals of cotillon and salon dances, with diagrams and figures, inscribed to..... More
Barcelona: Lib. de Sauri y Comp. C, de Escudellers, 1832. Illustrated with several choreographic diagrams. First edition. With a printed copyright statement on the verso of the title-page, declaring that only copies bearing the author’s signature are authorized; this copy signed by the author as issued. In later marbled paper..... More
Madrid: Imprenta de Repullés, plazuela del Ángel, 1820. With one full-page allegorical engraving and two pages of choreographic diagrams. First edition. Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label; marbled endpapers. [2] III–XVI, 222 [2 (blank)] p., [1] engraved leaf. A scarce Spanish dance manual containing..... More
Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs (Breitkopf & Härtel), 1903. First edition of Duncan’s first book. Text in German and English. In original, illustrated hard paper. 46, (2) p.; portrait frontispiece and a single double-sided plate. A printed version of Isadora Duncan’s first public lecture that became the manifesto of modern dance. A...... More
Budapest: Grill, (1935). First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. In publisher’s wrappers, with illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Fenyves. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. An account of the life of Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (1889–1950), the famous Russian ballet dancer by her wife, the Hungarian countess..... More
Budapest: Grill, (1935). First edition. Signed by Romola Nijinsky on half title. Limited up to 150, numbered in ink. The numbered copies printed on hand made paper, and bound into leather with gilt figural ornament on front panel and gilt title on spine. 223, (1) p. and 8 plates. The..... More
Budapest: Stamp on the back, Around. 1920. Vintage print. 8 x 11 cm. József Pécsi (1889–1956) was a Hungarian photographer, known for his influential book “Photo und Publizität” (Photography and Publicity; 1930) wherein, by his own advertisement designs, promoted the blending of typography, design, and photography in avant-garde advertising. More
Budapest: Amicus (Globus R.-T.), 1927. Woodcut illustrated half title and 14 woodcut text illustrations. Cover and illustrations by László Reiter. First edition. Inscribed by the illustrator. In original lithographic, coloured wrappers. (5), 10–57, (3) p. 15 art-deco woodcut illustrations by László Reiter (1894–1945), the Hungarian graphic artist, book designer and..... More
Budapest: Láng Miklós (Ritter Jenő könyvnyomdája). 1932. First edition. In original paper, designed by István Váradi. 28, (4) p. An early book of methodology of choreography. The author worked in Émile Jacque-Dalcroze’s (the developer of eurhythmics) school in Hellerau. He was the founder and editor of the first Hungarian review..... More
A Paris: Par Robert Ballard, seul Imprimeur du Roy pour la Musique, M. DC. LXV [1665]. First edition. Later green half morocco over marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. 52 [2] p. Scarce first edition of the libretto of Lully’s Naissance de Vénus, a key work in the development..... More
![Item #1974 [Photo Album] The Visit of the Hungarian National Ballet and Folk Ensemble to the...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1974.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1610468258)
[China?]: 1952. Elegant hardcover photo album, covered with red Chinese brocade, containing 29 black and white photographs in different sizes (portraits: ca. 120 × 167 mm; other images: 100–110 × 65–95 mm; and a small ID picture). 22 album card leaves; 29 b/w photographs. A unique collection of photographs including..... More
A Paris: Chez Rene’ Guignard, rüe Saint Jacques, au grand saint Basile, M. DC. LXXXII [1683]. First edition. In contemporary calf. Spine with raised bands, gilt title, and compartments. Woodcut device on the title page. Woodcut diagrams. Nicolas Yemeniz’s bookplate on front pastedown, with bibliographical notes in ink, probably by..... More
Budapest: Cserépfalvi, 1940. Photographs and typography by Lajos Lengyel. First edition. In original half cloth. With the rare photographically illustrated dust jacket. 60, (6) p., 9 plates (16 photographs). Contains four essays and two poems about the recently died dancer and three theoretical writings of her. Etel Nagy (1907–1939)..... More
![Item #1193 Nizinsky. / Nižinský. [Nijinsky.]. Nijinsky, Nizinska Romola](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1193.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500292415)
Praga [Prague]: Sfinx Bohumil Janda, 1936. Illustrated with four photographic plates and text illustrations. First Czech edition. Uncut. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 298, (6) p. 4 photographic plates. The famous Russian ballet dancer, Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky’s wife’s book on her husband, in Czech translation. More
![Item #1305 [Dance Performance Program.] Korb Flóra táncmatinéja. József Pécsi](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1305.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1505225826)
Budapest: May-nyomda, 1928. With photographically illustrated title page. First edition. (4) p. Pécsi-illustrated dance performance program leaflet. With a reproduction of József Pécsi’s full-length photo of Flóra Korb, a Hungarian modern ballet dancer. József Pécsi (1889–1956) was a Hungarian photographer, known for his influential book “Photo und Publizität”..... More
Budapest: Általános Nyomda, Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt. 1928. First edition. In original paper with photographic label on front cover. 100, (4) p., 28 plates of photographies. Olga Szentpál (1895–1968) was a Hungarian pioneer of modern dance, choreographer, teacher and theoretician of dance. After her studies at the Hungarian Academy of..... More