Josephine Baker’s inscribed Photo Postcard.
France: late 1920s. Inscribed by Baker in black ink. 140 × 90 mm. A Josephine Baker autographed real photo postcard. More
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Der Tanz der Zukunft. (The Dance of the Future.) Eine Vorlesung. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Karl Federn.
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
Harc Istenért. Nizsinszkij naplója. Paul Claudel utóhangjával. [Battle for God. Nijinsky’s Diary. Afterword by Paul Claudel.]
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
Harc Istenért. Nizsinszkij naplója. Paul Claudel utóhangjával. (Battle for God. Nijinsky’s Diary. Afterword by Paul Claudel.)
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
A szinpad erkölcse. Reiter László rajzaival. [The Moral of the Stage. Illustrated by László Reiter.]
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
Tánc-írás mozdulat-müvészek, régi és új gimnasztikával, valamint általában testkultúrával és tánccal foglalkozók számára. Célja: az emberi test pozitúráinak, mozdulatsorozatának és táncainak lerögzítése. Írta és szerkesztette: -- mérnök a Schule Hellerau-Laxenburg v. tagja. (Dance-notation [Choreography] for artists of Motion, professors of old and new gymnastics, body culture and dance. With the purpose: to record the positions, motions and dances of human body. Written and compiled by --, engineer, elected member of Schule Hellerau-Laxenburg.)
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 tánc psychologiája. Négy képpel. (Zenetudományi Könyvtár 11.) [The Psychology of Dance. With Four Images. (Library of Musicology 11.)]
(Budapest): Rusznák és Türk, (1912). With four full page illustrations. First edition. In original wrappers. 39, (1) p. An early essay about the theoretical aspects of modern dance. After the overview of the origins of the modern dance, analyses and compares the art of Isadora Duncan, Ruth Saint Denis and..... More
Photograph of the Szentpál Dance Group.
(Budapest): ca. 1930. Original, vintage, black and white photograph. With the photographer’s vignette at lower right corner. 228 × 168 mm. A scene from a dance play of the Szentpál Dance Group, played by three young girls. Erzsébet Leichtner was a Hungarian woman photographer, mostly known for her..... More
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[Photo Album] The Visit of the Hungarian National Ballet and Folk Ensemble to the People's Republic of China, in 1952.
[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
Des Ballets anciens et modernes selon les regles du theatre.
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
Arte de dançar a’ franceza, Que ensina o modo de fazer todos os differentes passos de minuete, com todas as suas regras, e a cada hum delles o modo de conduzir os braços: Obra muito conveniente, naõ só à mocidade, principalmente civil, que quer aprender a bem dançar; mas ainda a quem ensina as regras para bem andar, saudar, e fazer as cortezias, que convém a qualquer classe de pessoas: Traduzida de Idioma Francez em Portuguez por Joseph Thomas Cabreira.
Lisboa: MDCCLX [1760]. First edition. Illustrated throughout, with 19 woodcut and 2 typographic illustrations. In later Marroquin binding. Gilt title on spine. [8] 22 [2] p. An extremely scarce, richly illustrated 18th-century dance book, the Portuguese translation of Pablo Minguet e Yrol’s Arte de danzar a la francesa. This..... More
Egy magyar táncosnö. Nagy Etel emléke. / Egy magyar táncosnő. Nagy Etel emléke. [A Hungarian Dancer. Memory of Etel Nagy.]
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
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Nizinsky. / Nižinský. [Nijinsky.]
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
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[Dance Performance Program.] Korb Flóra táncmatinéja.
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
Tánc. A Mozgásmüvészet könyve. / Tánc. A Mozgásművészet könyve. Angelo, Hugo Erfurth (Dresden) és Máté Olga felvételeivel. (Dance. The Book of Art of Motion. With photographs by Angelo, Hugo Erfurth and Olga Máté.)
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
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