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Belshazzar's Feast vocal score

Price:  £8.00

Walton, William
VG p120
OUP

Birth of a Ballet

Price:  £5.00

Austin, Richard
Following a Ballet Rambert production (Black Angels) from conception to opening night. VG in VG DJ, slightly edge-worn. p151
Vision

Braunsweg's Ballet Scandals

Price:  £5.00

Braunsweg, Julian
The life of an impresario and the story of Festival Ballet. An errata slip is loosely laid in. VG in VG dj p295
reader's union

Dancing and Ballet

Price:  £5.00

Ordish, Olive
The evolution of dance, for children. VG in slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ p70
Routledge & Kegan Paul

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1963

Price:  £5.00

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Cover design by Dennis Lennon Cover deges rather rubbed, internally VG p0
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1965

Price:  £5.00

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Cover by Lorenzo Ghiglia Cover very slightly worn round the edges, internally VG p93
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1968

Price:  £5.00

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Cover by Pier Luigi Pizzi Very slight stain to cover, VG p96
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1969

Price:  £5.00

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Cover by Osbert Lancaster VG, cover protected by cellophane, internally VG p84
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1970

Price:  £5.00

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Cover by Charles Bravery Cover edges slightly worn, internally VG, name on title page p92
Glyndebourne Productions Ltd

Impresario

Price:  £5.00

Hurok, S and Goode, Ruth
VG in price-clipped, marked, slightly edge-worn and torn, but generally good DJ p272
MacDonald

Performances . . . Dynamics of a Dance Group

Price:  £8.00

Cope, Edith
A study in group dynamics VG in VG DJ p212
Lepus Books

Performer and Audience - a psychological study of nervousness and stage fright

Price:  £5.00

Ching, James
A Freudian study, especially for pianists Illustrative cover worn and sunned, internally good p96
Keith Prowse

Producing The Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian

Price:  £15.00

Muller-van Santen, Julia J G
A dissertation on the play The Prophetess by Fletcher and Massinger that became the 'semi-opera' Dioclesian with music by Purcell. Contains the full libretto with variant texts. VG p509
Universiteit Te Amsterdam

Shadowplay, the Life of Antony Tudor

Price:  £9.00

Perlmutter, Donna
Biography of the leading choreographer and dancer with Ballet Rambert and the American Ballet Theatre. Illus. VG+ (some marks on top edge from mis-gluing by publisher) in VG+ dj p419
Viking Penguin

The Ballet Designs of Leslie Hurry

Price:  £8.00

Beaumont, Cyril W
Spine worn to top, boards a little warped, very slight foosty smell, generally VG p72
Ariel/Faber and Faber

The Modern Dance

Price:  £5.00

Martin, John
The text of four lectures given in the early '30's, and first published in 1933; republished in '65, this being the fifth impression. One of the first attempts to analyse the American modern dance. Cover a little marked and worn, page edges a trifle grubby, occasional pencil annotation, generally VG p123
Dance Horizons

The Nature of Ballet - a critic's reflections

Price:  £5.00

Monahan, James
Music, choreography, dancing and décor - all the elements of ballet. VG in VG DJ. p122
Pitman

The Sadler's Wells Opera, A Pictorial Record

Price:  £7.00

Stapleton, Michael
95 b & w production photos from opera staged by Sadler's Wells between 1931 and 1946, with production list for the period and notes on some of the operas. Good (inscribed by prev. owner, sunned to base of spine) in Poor DJ (chipped, worn, torn). p66
A and C Black

Worzel Gummidge - a musical

Price:  £8.00

Waterhouse, Keith, and Hall, Willis; Music by Denis King
Based on characters created by Barbara Euphan Todd VG p77
Samuel French
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