[Ballet] Stravinsky, Igor. (1882–1971), Robbins, Jerome. (1918–1998), Bolm, Danilova, Markova, Nijinska, Tudor, Franklin, Zorich, Kaye etc.. "Complete Book of Ballets: A Guide to the Principal Ballets of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries " - Signed by Stravinsky, Robbins, Nijinska etc. . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1938. First U.S. edition. A remarkable copy of this famous dance book, signed on the inner front board and endpages and on many of the photograph pages within by leading dancers, choreographers and composers of the period. 900 pp. 185 b/w illus. Hardcover, red cloth boards. Light soiling to edges, a few image clippings tipped to rear endpages, otherwise fine.


Signed on their photographs by: Igor Stravinsky [on dance scene of Petrouchka, also signed by Leonide Massine], Alicia Markova, Alexandra Danilova, Bronislava Nijinska, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, Irina Baronova and Hugh Laing. And signed on the first endpages by: Jerome Robbins, Adolph Bolm, David Lichine, Alexandra Danilova, Alicia Markova, Anthony Tudor, George Zoritch, Frederic Franklin, Nora Kaye, Nicolas Vasilieff, Rosella Hightower, Andre Eglevsky, Bronislava Nijinska, Mia Slavenska, Igor Youskevitch, Lubov Rostova, Harold Lang, Lucia Chase, Nathalia Krassovska, Leon Danileian, Marina Svetlova, John Kriza, Anna Istomina, Donald Sadeler, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief, Milada Mladova, Richard Reed, Roland Guerard, Sonia Wojakowska and others.


A superb collection of signatures from many of the most important figures in the world of 20th century dance.