Ballet Rambert by Rambert, Marie:

9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Professionally laid-down on light card. The inscription re-inked having faded. Provenance Anello & Davide. [Since 1922, Anello & Davide, of London, have been the premier brand in dance and theatrical footwear, with a reputation for specialised, handcrafted shoes]. NB Postage will be reduced to actual cost when the order is processed.

London: British-Continental Press/ The Artists of the Dance, 1930. Hardback. Good+. FIRST EDITION, with TLS & SIGNED POSTCARD by RAMBERT laid-in. 8vo, pp. 44, [6 catalogue] + 7 b/w plates. Quarter red cloth, buff paper boards, lettered in black. Top and fore-edged untrimmed. Tanned, edgewear, corners bruised, patch of rubbing to bottom board. Front hinge starting, Brian Hill's attractive monochrome ex libris, featuring a windmill and designed by "SLR," to front pastedown. One-page TLS from Rambert on blue Mercury Theatre/ The Rambert Ballet-headed paper (04.09.1950) addressed to Mr. Hill, plus a later Ballet Rambert sepia postcard, featuring "Marie Rambert, Warsaw, 1897" and signed in blue ink on reverse by Rambert, laid-in. Else, clean. Good+. A pleasing copy of Haskell's tribute to Rambert & her dancers, unusual with signed ephemera laid in. The Polish-born ballet dancer and teacher Marie Rambert (1888�1982, DBE) studied in Paris and London, before creating her own company, Ballet Club, in 1926.… Read More