1958 Baron's Ballet Finale

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. Illustrated with four colour plates and numerous black-and-white photographs. Collated complete. The third and last of Baron's great books on the ballet, exploring the photographer's intensely personal appreciation of dancing in its many forms. With sections on the French ballet, American ballet, musicals, festival ballet, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Royal Danish Ballet, and more. With an introduction and commentary from Baron's collaborator Arnold Lionel David Haskell, a British dance critic who founded the Camargo Society in 1930. With Ninette de Valois, he was influential in the development of the Royal Ballet School, later becoming the school's headmaster.