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Out of Print and Second Hand Titles
The following out of print and second hand titles are currently available at Dance Books. The list changes regularly so please come back, or contact us if you are looking for a specific title.
Adeline Genee, a lifetime of ballet under six reigns. Second hand or out of print title Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 1958 The biography of one of Edwardian London's favourite dancers, later first president of the Royal Academy of Dancing,... [full description] | Hardback [4049-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Anton Dolin, autobiography. Second hand or out of print title Author: Dolin, Anton Published: 1960 A very good copy in dustwrapper with slightly worn and faded spine. | Hardback [5390-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
Ballet & modern dance. A concise history. Second hand or out of print title Author: Anderson, Jack Published: 1986 A well used paperback with creased front cover. Internally some text has been highlighted. A reading copy only. | Paperback [5365-PB] £ 2.00 Add to order |
 Ballet in England, a bibliography and survey, c. 1700 - June 1966.
Second hand or out of print title Author: Forrester, F.S. Published: 1968 A very good copy, in similar dustwrapper, of an invaluable bibliography, covering both books and major journal articles. | Hardback [4275-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
Ballet in Leicester Square. Second hand or out of print title Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 1992 The story of how ballet flourished in two of London's most famous music halls, the Alhambra and the Empire. A very good... [full description] | Hardback [5392-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Balletmaster - a dancer's view of George Balanchine. Second hand or out of print title Author: Shearer, Moira Published: 1986 A very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. | Hardback [5391-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Ballroom dancing, the romance, rhythm, and style. Second hand or out of print title Author: Reynolds, John Lawrence Published: 1998 A lavishly illustrated, large-format book offering a fascinating glimpse into the world of ballroom dancing, covering... [full description] | Hardback [0783-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Bibliographic guide to dance. Second hand or out of print title Published: The annual update volumes to the New York Public Library's invaluable Dictionary Catalogue of the Dance Collection, for... [full description] | Hardback [4027-HB] £ 1,000.00 Add to order |
Choreography, the art of the body. Second hand or out of print title Author: Winearls, Jane Published: 1990 The author wrote: 'My aims in this book are four-fold: [1] To examine the roots of anatomical and physiological action... [full description] | Paperback [2007-PB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Dance and drama in Bali. Second hand or out of print title Author: Spies, Walter & Beryl de Zoete Published: 1938 Internally a nice copy (front edges hand cut, as issued, a few worm holes to the first and last few pages), lacking... [full description] | Hardback [4126-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
A dance autobiography. Second hand or out of print title Author: Makarova, Natalia Published: 1980 The first English edition of a large format, heavily illustrated (over 300 black-and-white photographs) autobiography.... [full description] | Hardback [4190-HB] £ 40.00 Add to order |
The Dancer's image. Second hand or out of print title Author: Sorell, Walter Published: 1971 Collected criticism and writings of the veteran Austro-American dance critic, a summing up of his lifetime's experience... [full description] | Hardback [4912-HB] £ 18.00 Add to order |
The first score, an account of the foundation of The Beaumont Press. Second hand or out of print title Author: Beaumont, Cyril W. Published: 1980 Not strictly a dance book, but a fascinating pendant to the life and work of the great British dance writer, critic,... [full description] | Hardback [2739-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Fonteyn, impressions of a ballerina. Second hand or out of print title Author: Chappell, William Published: 1951 A good clean copy in similar dust wrapper. Price cut from dust wrapper and light foxing to front fore-edges. | Hardback [5358-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Fonteyn, the making of a legend. Second hand or out of print title Author: Money, Keith Published: 1973 A very large (310 x 250 mm, over 300 pages) pictorial biography of Margot Fonteyn, containing photographs of virtually... [full description] | Hardback [5082-HB] £ 30.00 Add to order |
Footnotes to the ballet. Second hand or out of print title Author: & Caryl Brahms Published: 1936,1943 A collection of essays on ballet, mostly in the early to mid 20th century by various specialists in the field. A good... [full description] | Hardback [5375-HB] £ 6.00 Add to order |
In his true centre. Second hand or out of print title Author: Haskell, Arnold L Published: 1951 An interim autobiography of the dance critic and first director of Sadler's Wells Ballet School. A good copy, but with... [full description] | Hardback [5377-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Kinesiology. Second hand or out of print title Author: Cooper, John M & Ruth B Glassow Published: 1963,1968,1972 The 3rd edition of a standard text on human movement. A good copy with grubby cover and dollar price stamped on front... [full description] | Hardback [5368-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 Labanotation typing manual.
Second hand or out of print title Author: Floyd, Jo Published: 1974 An instruction manual for use with the Labanotation-IBM Selectric typewriter element. Now out of print - this is a... [full description] | Spiral bound [3957-SP] £ 7.50 Add to order |
Letters on dancing and ballets. Second hand or out of print title Author: Noverre, Jean-Georges Published: 1930 The first edition of Cyril Beaumont's translation, published by Beaumont in 1930. The binding is firm, but externally... [full description] | Hardback [4039-HB] £ 75.00 Add to order |
Marie Taglioni. Second hand or out of print title Author: Levinson, Andre Published: 1930 A very good copy of the first edition of Cyril W Beaumont's translation, no. 66 of 425 copies. Lacks dust-wrapper,... [full description] | Hardback [4016-HB] £ 75.00 Add to order |
Moira Shearer. Second hand or out of print title Author: Crowle, Pigeon Published: 1949 A study of the dancer. Light foxing to fore-edge and end-papers. Dust wrapper is worn and torn and price has been... [full description] | Hardback [5384-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Movement & metaphor. Four centuries of ballet. Second hand or out of print title Author: Kirstein, Lincoln Published: 1970 The history of ballet seen through fifty seminal works, from Le Ballet des Polonais of 1573 to the 1968... [full description] | Hardback [5378-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
Nureyev Gala Tribute programme. Second hand or out of print title Published: The souvenir programme of the gala tribute to Rudolf Nureyev, held at the London Coliseum, on Sunday March 13 1994. 124... [full description] | Paperback [4026-PB] £ 50.00 Add to order |
Observer of the dance 1958-1982. Second hand or out of print title Author: Bland, Alexander Published: 1985 Dance criticisms from the 1950s to the 1980s, by the pseudonymous critic Alexander Bland, actually the husband and wife... [full description] | Hardback [3903-HB] £ 10.00 Add to order |
 The one and only, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Second hand or out of print title Author: Anderson, Jack Published: 1981 The story of one of America's most important yet neglected ballet companies, whose stars included Danilova, Markova,... [full description] | Hardback [2738-HB] £ 15.00 Add to order |
Perspektiv pa Bournonville. Second hand or out of print title Published: 1980 A collection of essays on Bournonville and his ballets by Danish writers and critics. Text in Danish only. | Hardback [5367-HB] £ 12.00 Add to order |
Religious dances. Second hand or out of print title Author: Backman, E Louis Published: 1952 An account of the origins and history of religious dances. A very good copy in similar dust wrapper, some browning to... [full description] | Hardback [5357-HB] £ 20.00 Add to order |
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