New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover [duodecimo] in printed dust jacket. Purple cloth paneled in blind with black lettering stamped to front and spine. xv, 163 pp. Very Good in a square binding with sharp corners. Wear and toning around edges, one small paint stain to crown of spine, light soiling to text block, former bookstore sticker to rear paste down. Soiled, rubbed, and spine sunned jacket has neatly separated at all folds save spine to rear flap, but is otherwise complete save some chipping around edges and corners.. Early text on the "New Dance", scarce in First Edition.

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Bookseller: Better Read Than Dead (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1923
Title: Elements of the Free Dance
Author: Elizabeth Selden
Format/Binding: Hardcover [duodecimo] in printed dust jacket. Purple cloth paneled in blind with black lettering stamped to front and spine. xv,
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in a square binding with sharp corners. Wear and toning around edges, one small paint stain to crown of spine, light s
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1930

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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