Isadora Duncan in Her Dances
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1945. Very Good. Item #41380
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1945. First Edition. Quarto (28.7cm); bound in three-quarter leather and marbled paper boards with leather title card by Starr Bookworks; original blue-green paper wraps retained; 12pp+[20]pp illus. Boards sturdy, clean, and square. Fading and toning along edges of original wraps. Scattered foxing to title page. Light, flattened creasing to some interior pages. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
Title page continues: "Included Are Dance Sequence Drawings of Ballet, Agna Enters, Martha Graham, a Group of Pupils of Isador, And Drawings Against War and Fascism by Walkowitz, With an Introduction by Konrad Bercovici." Additional introductions by Maria-Theresa, Carl Van Vechten, Mary Fanton Roberts, Shaemas O'Sheel and Arnold Genthe. Small collection of Walkowitz's drawings of the pioneer of modern contemporary dance (he would go on to draw over 5000).
Baker p. 398.
Price: $125.00