Modern Ballet and Dance - Golden Legend · Diaghilev. Ballets Russes. Souvenir program for Le Coq d’or and Pétrouchka. . Diaghilev. Souvenir program for Le Coq d’or and Pétrouchka

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Table of Contents~Delete3Estampida: a lyric for dancing

~Delete4Aragon, Louis, La Naissance de la Paix par Rene Descarte~Delete5Balanchine, George, Early Balanchine Programs

~Delete5Blow, John, Venus and Adonis~Delete6Chagall, Paris / l'Opera Romeo and Juliet

~Delete7Cocteau, Jean, Poster, Ballets Russes de Diaghilew Paris: 1939~Delete8Diaghilev Ballets, Scarce Ballets Russes Ephemera 1910-1940

~Delete8Diaghilev. Ballets, The Sleeping Princess. Souvenir program~Delete9Diaghilev. Ballets, Souvenir program for Le Coq d’or and Pétrouchka

~Delete10Diaghilev. Ballets, Le Triomphe de Neptune~Delete11Duncan, Isadora, Soixante-Douze Planches par Jose Clara avec Une…

~Delete11Fuller, Loïe, Autographed letter, signed “Loïe”. Paris, 1908~Delete12Hoffman, Gertrude, Album Souvenir de “La Saison Russe” NY:1911

~Delete13Johann Salvator, Die Assassinen~Delete14Johnson, A.E, The Russian Ballet with Illustrations by Rene Bull

~Delete14Lifar, Serge, Pensees sur la Danse~Delete15Lissim, Simon, Simon Lissim

~Delete15Marceau, Marcel, Marceau at the Kaye, April 25-30, 1995~Delete16Shanh, Ben, Martha Graham poster

~Delete16Shawn, Ted, Ruth St. Denis: Pioneer and Prophet. Being a…~Delete17Taglioni, Marie, Rare paper doll set with costume and box

~Delete17Taglioni, Marie, ALS in French to Monsier Séguin English opera…~Delete18Yeats, W, Two plays for dancers, by W. B. Yeats

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Estampida: a lyric for dancing. Estampida: a lyric fordancing translated from the Provençal of Raimbault deVaqueiras by Richard Haly. Berkeley, CA: EditionsPetrouchka, 1982. 1 of only 40 copies printed onHammer & Anvil Paper by Wesley B. Tanner & signedby the translator.

Quarto. Printed wrappers, glassine. Provençal poetry onone side of the paper, English on the other. (20pp).Wesley B. Tanner had a life-long career as a printer. Heprinted dozens of fine, limited-edition books by some ofthe most important poets of our time, including LawrenceFerlinghetti, Michael McClure, HD, Joanne Kyger, andAnne Waldman.

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(Aragon, Louis 1897-1982). La Naissance de la Paixpar Rene Descarte. ballet danse au chateau royalde Stockholm le jour de la naissance de SaMajeste (1649).But published: Paris: BibliothequeFrancaise pour les amis de l'auteur, J. Dumoulin, (1946).#280 of 300 copies signed by Aragon on the colophon.

When Rene Descartes was 54, he went to Stockholm atthe invitation of Queen Christina. It is said that becauseDescartes refused to dance at a court ball, QueenChristina charged him with writing the verses for a courtballet, La Naissance de la Paix. The ballet was composedfor performance on 8 December 1649, the 23rd birthdayof the Queen. It celebrates the Peace of Westphalia at theend of the Thirty Years’ war, which was more or lesswon by Sweden.

According to a recent study by Richard Watson, "theevidence of Descartes' authorship is virtuallynonexistent... Almost certainly the ballet was written byHelie Poirier, a professional writer of French verse."References: Watson, Richard A,. Descartes’s Ballet(2007)

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Balanchine, George . Early Balanchine Programs .Programs from the two early Balancine companies: LesBallets 1933 and The American Ballet. These reflect thebeginning of Mr.B’s career as a choreographer after theDiaghilev years. Descriptions below.

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Blow, John (Marie Laurencin, designer). . Venusand Adonis. Venus and Adonis by John

Blow (English composer 1649-1708). (Paris:

L'Oiseau Lyre chez. Louise B.M. Dyer, 1939) #57 of

350. Three items consisting of musical score (95p);

(2) musical 5 parts for ensemble of instruments; (3)

Album of prints in color of costumes by Marie

Laurencin.

Quarto. 10 ½ x 12 ½". The original 1682 work by

Blow was called a masque for the entertainment of

the king, but the music follows the form on an opera

based on the French style of Lully consisting here of

an overture, a prologue and three acts. The libretto is

anonymous or the author’s name is lost. The music

comes from B.M. Add. Mss 22100

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Chagall. Paris / l'Opera [Romeo and Juliet.]. Chagall,Marc. . Paris / l'Opera [Romeo and Juliet.][Lithographic poster printed in colors] by MourlotGallery. Paris: Mourlot, 1965. On paper, 24x38”610x965 mm, sheet.

The decoration for the ceiling of the Paris Opera byChagall was commissioned by Andre Malraux, then theCabinet Minister in charge of Cultural Affairs. Thisinterpretive rendering of lithograph executed by CharlesSorlier, from a detail of the preliminary sketch of theceiling of the Paris Opera. This fragment is a tribute toBerlioz for Romeo and Juliet; it also includes pictures ofthe Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe Ref:Sorlier, Chagall's Posters, A Catalogue Raisonne, 96;Weill page 358.

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Cocteau, Jean. [Poster], Ballets Russes deDiaghilew Paris: 1939. . [Poster], Ballets

Russes de Diaghilew Paris: 1939. Advertising

poster for the 1939 exhibition

BALLETS RUSSES DE DIAGHILEW 1909 A

1929 Musee des Art Decoratifs. Palais Du

Louvre. Pavillon de Marsan. Exposition organisee

par Serge Lifar. Mars a Juin 1939.

Lithographic poster on paper, printed in color with

lettering and full margins. Signed "Jean

Cocteau" in the stone, lower right. Sheet size: 61" x

34"; mounted on silk, rolled. Fine copy.

Our 1939 poster was restruck from the original

lithograph of 1911 to advertise this, the first major

exhibition concerning Diaghilev and the Ballets

Russes.

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Diaghilev Ballets Russes . Scarce Ballets RussesEphemera 1910-1940. A list is a the link below.

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Diaghilev. Ballets Russe. The SleepingPrincess. Souvenir [program].

Diaghilev. The Sleeping Princess. Souvenir

[program]. Alhambra Theater. (London: Diaghlev)

1921. Quarto. 9 ½” x 12". 28p, plus covers in gold

and silver, dust soiled, with original silk ties. The

deluxe program for the first performance of Sleeping

Princess/la belle au bois dormant. Ballet in five

scenes, music by P. Tchaikovsky, with prelude and

Aurora’s Variation in scene II by Igor Stravinsky.

Choreography by Marius Petipa.

With page borders red and green. Story of the ballet

and of “Tchaikovsky at the Rusian Ballet” by Leon

Bakst. Color reproduction of the characters and

their costumes and double page centerfold of the

sets for the castel [sic] in the forest. Cast list for

each of the five scenes. Ads.

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Diaghilev. Ballets Russes. Souvenir program forLe Coq d’or and Pétrouchka. . Diaghilev.

Souvenir program for Le Coq d’or and

Pétrouchka. Neuvième Saison Russe. Mai-Juin

1914 dix représentations de Ballets Russes de M.

Serge de Diaghlew. Paris: Ballets Russes, 1914.

Quarto 9 ½" x 12". Original wrappers 48p plus

inserts. FINE COPY with original silk ties. Rare

in this condition.

Includes “Agrument du Coq d’Or and Petrouchka.

General program for Mai-Juin 1914. Photo of

Karsavina in Petrouchka, Costumes in color, full

page photos of Fokina, Fokine, Karsavina, Bolm,

ads inserted for Brunhoff’s periodical Comoedia

Illustre and Valentine Gross’ Mouvements de Danse,

centerpiece of scenes from Papillons, another two

page spread in gold for Benois’ costumes for

Rossignol; sheaf of adverts at end including one for

Sizaire-Berwick auto (Sizaire-Berwick was an

Anglo-French automobile manufacturer active

between 1913 and 1927) and the Lorraine-Diétrich

(Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and

aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935)

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Diaghilev. Ballets Russes . Le Triomphe deNeptune. Diaghilev. [ Program]. For 28 Mai

Le Triomphe de Neptune, music by Berners, book

by Sitwell, decors and costume after the brothers

Cruikshank, Tofts, Honigold and Wells.

Choreography by Georges Balanchine. Cast list

includes Danilova, Lifar, Tchernicheva, Idzikovsky

and others.

Quarto. 9 ½ x 12" lightly soiled and worn at corners,

a few stains back cover. Front cover in color based

on 19th century children’s illustrations. General title

page 10 Galas des Ballets Russes. Théâtre Sarah-

Bernhardt. Xxe Saison de Serge de Diaghilew.

1927. Programs schedules for 17 Mai through 9

Juin 1927 are included. Nice photos of Olg Spessiva,

Leonide Massine, Lydia Sokolova, as well as

Danilova, Balanchine, ads.

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Duncan, Isadora. Soixante-Douze Planches par JoseClara avec Une Presentation de Georges-A. Denis.Paris: Reider, 1928. Limited ed. of 474 copies, of whichthis in no. 466. Folio. 72 Loose plates, as issued in folderwith 10pp. of text. Soixante-Douze Planches is abeautiful collection of 72 collotypereproductions of Clara's drawings, gouaches,and pen sketches of Isadora.

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Fuller, Loïe (1862-1928). American dancer.Autographed letter, signed “Loïe”. [Paris, 1908]. Tall8vo, 5 pages on three sheets, folded. In English. A dense,five-page letter to Mme Jules Clarétie, the wife of theimportant critic and writer Jules Clarétie, briefing herfriend on wealthy guests who are coming to a soirée atthe Clarétie home. Fuller writes with obvious affectionfor her friend, in language evocative of her verycreativity, but with no love for the wealthy guests.

Written at an important period in Fuller’s lifewhen she began work on her autobiography,encouraged by Jules Clarétie. At this time, shewas also staging her ballet-pantomime LaTragédie de Salomé (1907).

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Hoffman, Gertrude. . Album Souvenir de “LaSaison Russe” NY:1911. Hoffman, Gertrude.

Album Souvenir de “La Saison Russe” NY:1911.

Quarto: Orig wrappers, 9 1/2x 12" String tied.

Covers detached, frayed and soiled. 20 p covers.

Internally clean. Souvenir program for the 1911

American tour which was the first performance of

the Ballets Russes repertory in America.. Color

printed with black and white photos.

Program features excerpts of Cléopâtre,

Shéhéradeze, Les Sylphides. Cast list has Lydia

Lopoukowa, Maria Baldina, Alexander Volinine,

Theordore Kosloff, Ivan Tarasow. Photos of

Lopoukowa, Baldina,, Kosloff, Volinine and others .

Morris Gest and F. Ray Comstock, managing

directors

Gertrude Hoffman (Hoffmann) developed and

performed in the first U.S. productions of the Ballets

Russes repertoire (1911–15). Three ballets by

Mikhail Fokine, staged by Theodore Kosloff without

permission, made up the serious part of the evening.

This was the first Ballets Russes seen in America.

Hoffman is also credited with infusing American

vaudeville with Ballet Russes material. She

presented “cut-rate renditions of Russian ballets to

one-horse town across the Nation” (Laurence

Senelick, his article on Vaudeville. VI, pp 318-19,

International Encyclopedia Dance. Selma Jeanne

Cohen, ed (1998). Scarce!!

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Johann Salvator (1852–1911?). Archduke and Prince

of Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and

Tuscany. Die Assassinen. Die Assassinen: Ballet

in drei acten, in scene gesetszt von Carl Telle, Musik

von D. J. Forster.

Wien: Wallishausser, 1883. 12mo. Original green

wrappers (chipped). Libretto for ballet in three acts

set in Jerusalem in 1197, probably taken from the

legend of the Sultan Saladin* in his military

campaign against the Assassins and their leader,

Hassan Scheich el Djebel (“the old man of the

mountain”).

Act II of the ballet has an early and fascinating use

of electric lighting. At the premiere, Milli Stubel

appeared on stage illuminated from head to foot by

Edison’s new light bulbs.

The author is Johann Salvator (1852–1911?), a

member of the Tuscan branch of the House of

Habsburg-Lorraine. He was Archduke and Prince of

Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and

Tuscany. After renouncing those titles, he was

known as Johann (John) Orth. He disappeared

while sailing with his wife Milli in July 1890 and is

believed to have died when his ship

encountered a storm near Cape Horn. He was

declared dead in absentia in 1911.

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Johnson, A.E. The Russian Ballet with Illustrations byRene Bull. London: Constable, 1913. First edition.Quarto. Wrappers. Spine rebacked somewhat crudely.Frontis creased. 240pp. including 12 tipped-in colorplates and numerous black and white drawings. N/L I, p.241. This book features 17 important Ballets from theearly years of Diaghilev, including Scheherazade,Narcisse, Cleopatre, & others. A beautifully designed andillustrated book in the English fine press tradition. The 12fine color illustrations are based on the sets and costumesfrom the Ballets but also show the influence of theoriental art motifs introduced into English bookillustration by Dulac and Rackham.

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Lifar, Serge. Pensees sur la Danse. Paris: Bordas, 1946.One of 350 copies on Rives signed by publisher (entireedition of 700). Folio. Original wrappers. 61pp., with 7lithographs after Maillol. Spine worn, otherwise quitefine. with original glassine. O Foreword by Paul Valery."An attractive edition." Leslie II, p.326. Bordas is knownfor its fine publications. The reproduction of the Maillollithograph was done by Daniel Jacomet.

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Lissim, Simon. Simon Lissim. Preface de M. Paul Leon,Membre de l'institut, Professeur au College de France.Paris: Aux Editions Du Cygne, 1933. Original Whitewrappers. Tear to back wrapper, else fine, with originalglassine. Folio (9" x 11 1/4"). 112pp.; illus., 40 pl.including many in color pochoir. With an invitation to anExposition for Simon Lissim at Galerie du Cygne, Paris,ca 1925.

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(Marceau, Marcel.). Marceau at the Kaye, April 25-30,1995. [Poster printed in colors]. New York: HunterCollege, 1995. (15" x 22") For Marceau performance atthe Hunter College Kaye theatre. Nicely inscribed byMarceau in gold ink to Anna Sosensko, the Broadwayproducer and composer. Depicts the great mime in aBalletic pose. Framed.

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Shanh, Ben. (Artist. 1899-1969). Martha Graham[poster]. Poster of Martha Graham (1963). Single sheet,photo-lithograph printed in green, grey and black. 21" x30 3/4", nicely framed. For a 1963 exhibition ofphotographs of Martha Graham and her company at theUSIS Gallery, American Embassy, London. The posterhas letterpress at bottom noting that Graham and hercompany will appear at the Edinburgh Festival August 26-31, 1963.

This copy inscribed by Graham “With best wishes froma dancer to dancers/ Martha Graham” (Signaturefaded but readable).

Most copies of this rare poster were printed for theAmerican market without letterpress announcement ofthe USIS show.

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Shawn, Ted. Ruth St. Denis: Pioneer and Prophet.Being a History of Her Cycle of Oriental Dances. SanFrancisco: Howell, 1920. Copy 194 of 350 numberedcopies signed by both Shawn and St. Denis. Twovolumes. Folio (13" x 10"). Volume of text and volumeof 64 photo plates, each tipped to heavy paper andcaptioned. Original batik boards and cloth spines. Nameand small stamp on flyleaf, very slight wear, else fine.

Pioneer and Prophet is the best work ever done on RuthSt. Denis. The lengthy text, which is by her long-timepartner Ted Shawn, provides an excellent history of herdance career and the development of various styles. Thephotographic plates collect every available image of St.Denis in performance and include those by Genthe andBaron de Meyer. Many of these photos have never beenreproduced. This work is beautifully printed by JohnHenry Nash in the style of William Morris' KelmscottPress.

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Taglioni, Marie. Rare paper doll set with costumeand box . [Paper doll with costumes]. TAGLIONI

Paris: Simon. [c. 1835]. A paper doll set.

With the original publisher's box (7 3/4" x 10.5/8") .

Mannequin of Maria Taglioni and seven ballet

costumes that can be modeled on the mannequin.

Fine condition, front and back . Box with gilt faded

upper cover, some slight soiling

A rarity of the Romantic Ballet

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Taglioni, Marie.(Ballerina. B 1804 Stockholm; D

1884 Marseille). ALS in French to MonsierSéguin (English opera singer and latertheatre manager)

2 1/2p. 8vo signed “Marie Taglioni.” Paris12 Mai 1838. The letter mentions her refusal to

work with English theatre manage Alfred Bunn.

Taglioni also discusses a possible tour of England

with Arthur Séguin during her summer away from

the Paris Opera (where she had a six year contract).

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Yeats, W. B. Two plays for dancers, by W. B. Yeats.Churchtown, Ireland: Cuala Press, 1919. 1st ed. 8vo.Cloth spine and boards. 38pp. Covers a bit soiled andworn. Title woodcut engraving "Monoceros de Astris" byT. Sturge Moore. . First edition. One of four hundredcopies. WADE 123. MILLER 28.

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IndexA

Album Souvenir de “La Saison Russe” NY:1911, 12ALS in French to Monsier Séguin English opera…, 17Aragon, Louis, 4Autographed letter, signed “Loïe”. Paris, 1908, 11

BBalanchine, George, 5Blow, John, 5

CChagall, 6Cocteau, Jean, 7

DDiaghilev Ballets, 8Diaghilev. Ballets, 8, 10, 9Die Assassinen, 13Duncan, Isadora, 11

EEarly Balanchine Programs, 5Estampida: a lyric for dancing, 3

FFuller, Loïe, 11

HHoffman, Gertrude, 12

JJohann Salvator, 13Johnson, A.E, 14

LLa Naissance de la Paix par Rene Descarte, 4Le Triomphe de Neptune, 10Lifar, Serge, 14Lissim, Simon, 15

MMarceau at the Kaye, April 25-30, 1995, 15Marceau, Marcel, 15Martha Graham poster, 16

PParis / l'Opera Romeo and Juliet, 6


Pensees sur la Danse, 14Poster, Ballets Russes de Diaghilew Paris: 1939, 7

RRare paper doll set with costume and box, 17Ruth St. Denis: Pioneer and Prophet. Being a…, 16

SScarce Ballets Russes Ephemera 1910-1940, 8Shanh, Ben, 16Shawn, Ted, 16Simon Lissim, 15Soixante-Douze Planches par Jose Clara avec Une…, 11Souvenir program for Le Coq d’or and Pétrouchka, 9

TTaglioni, Marie, 17, 17The Russian Ballet with Illustrations by Rene Bull, 14The Sleeping Princess. Souvenir program, 8Two plays for dancers, by W. B. Yeats, 18

VVenus and Adonis, 5

YYeats, W, 18


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Modern Ballet and Dance - Golden Legend · Diaghilev. Ballets Russes. Souvenir program for Le Coq d’or and Pétrouchka. . Diaghilev. Souvenir program for Le Coq d’or and Pétrouchka