Martha Graham: Portrait of the Lady as an Artist - First Edition Hardcover 1966 (Very Good Condition, No Dust Jacket) - Perfect for Dance Enthusiasts & Collectors

Leatherman, Leroy, and Martha Swope. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 9", 182 pp. 

Dark brown cloth over board, stamped copper gilt illustration of Martha Graham dancing to front panel, stamped gilt and silver lettering to spine, top edge painted brown, blind publisher's stamp to back panel, minor sunning and wear to spine, some soiling to fore edge of text block, blue pen previous owner inscription to first page, otherwise, clean, crisp, and tightly bound. 182 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs of dancers in motion by Martha Swope, text by Leroy Leatherman, eight sections: "Acrobats of God," "Embattled Garden," "Part Real--Part Dream," "Night Journey," "Clytemnestra," "Seraphic Dialogue," "Legend of Judith," and "The Witch of Endor," Appendix, and biographies on the author and photographer. From the text: "As a dancer;  as the inventor of a technique of dance which has irrevocably changed the art; as a teacher; as a choreographer; as an actress whom many actors and exacting critics consider the greatest of her time; and, finally and most important, as a dramatist, Martha [Graham] is unquestionably a genius. She is the first woman in the history of drama East and West to have contributed a huge and amazingly varied body of work to the theater."