Signed Maurice Seymour Ballet Portraits Hardcover Book 1952 - Vintage Dance Photography Collectible for Ballet Enthusiasts & Art Lovers

Seymour, Maurice. New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1952.

English, Very Good, HC, 4to, 12 1/4" x 9", [14] 165 pp.  

Blue cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to front panel and spine, sunning to edges and spine, slightly shaken spine, minor wear, some soiling, ex libris sticker and previous owner name in pen to first free endpaper, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and intact. Signed in blue pen by Margot Fonteyn, Frederick Ashton, Michael Somes, Alexander Grant, Greta Hamby, and Mary Drage. [14] 165 pp. Replete with stunning high-contrast 101 black-and-white portraits of Sadler's Wells Ballet dancers such as Margot Fonteyn, Beryl Grey, Moira Shearer, and Violetta Elvin, Preface, photographs, and text by Maurice Seymour, Foreword, short biographies on dancers, and Index of dancers. From the Preface: "In this second collection of dance photography my brother and I offer studies of new stars in the firmament and of familiar and steadfast ones with fixed places...We have tried to choose those pictures which as such were both interesting dance photographs and significant because of the artist's interpretation."