My Life in Ballet. Edited By Phyllis Hartnoll and Robert Rubens. With a Catalogue of Ballets By Phyllis Hartnoll

London: Macmillan, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The jacket, now protected, has been slightly crushed by the original library sleeving. The book suffers from the usual library stamps, including a library pocket on the back paste down and a remnant date due slip on the back end paper. Internally the book is squeaky clean and the binding solid, indeed it appears to have been rarely borrowed. If you don't mind the aesthetics of an ex libray book, it is a very good copy in like jacket. "Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (9 August [O.S. 28 July] 1896 - 15 March 1979), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. Massine created the world's first symphonic ballet, Les Présages, and many others in the same vein. Besides his "symphonic ballets," Massine choreographed many other popular works during his long career, some of which were serious and dramatic, and others lighthearted and romantic.[1] He created some of his most famous roles in his own comic works, among them the Can-Can Dancer in La Boutique fantasque (1919), the Hussar in Le Beau Danube (1924), and, perhaps best known of all, the Peruvian in Gaîté Parisienne (1938) (Wikipedia)