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
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: 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: 1921. With illustrations by László Kandel. Only edition. In original paper. 79 p. 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
(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
(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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[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
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
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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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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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