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Balanchine by Bernard Taper
Forward / Preface None
Ballet Biography
Publisher Harper & Row 1960, 1963 Pages 335   Many photos, black and white
A biography that in building up Balanchine, insults many other ballet greats and institutions. Maybe you'll enjoy it? Balanchines life to the books publication date (1960)

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Balanchines New Complete Stories of the Great Ballets by George Balanchine
Forward / Preface Author
Ballet Stories
Publisher Doubleday 1954, 1968 Pages 626   some photo, illustration, music, black and white
Discription of ballets C. 1966.

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Ballet - an Illustrated History by Mary Clarke and Clement Crisp
Forward / Preface Antoinette Sibley
Ballet History , Childrens Ballet Story and Other , Picture and Coffee Table
Publisher Homish Hamilton, Limited 1992,1973 Pages 304   Extensive photos, black and white
An exquisite text accompanied with many, many plates and photo's, a uniquely guided history book on ballet.

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Ballet and Modern Dance (with contributions by leading choreographers dancers and critics) by Kirstein, Bejart, Lanchberry, others
Forward / Preface None
Ballet Choreography , Ballet Theater/Production , Picture and Coffee Table
Publisher Octopus Books Limited, London 1974 Pages 144   Lavishly photographed, mainly B&W, some color
Unique commentary on the state of the dance c1974.

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Distant Dances by Sono Osato
Forward / Preface authors
Ballet Autobiography
Publisher Alfred A Knopf, Inc. 1980 Pages 300   Some Photos, black and white
Sono Osato was accepted into Col. W. Basils Ballets Russes at age 14 - an incredible life story told with humor and many details of the ballets she performed in.

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George Balanchine Ballet Master by Richard Buckle and John Taras
Forward / Preface None
Ballet Biography
Publisher Random House, New York 1988 Pages 500   Few photos, black and white

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Nureyev - an autobiography with pictures by Rudolph Nureyev
Forward / Preface intro by Alexander Bland
Ballet Autobiography
Publisher E.P. Dutton & Co. 1963 Pages 160   Some Photos, black and white
Written only two to three years after his defection, at age of twenty four. Rudolph Nureyev mainly reveals his life in the USSR from childhood, becoming a ballet dancer, then first impressions of the 'West'.

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Prodigal Son by Edward Villella with Larry Kaplan
Forward / Preface None
Ballet Biography
Publisher Simon and Schuster 1990 Pages 317   Some Photos, black and white
The books subtitle "Dancing for Balanchine in a World of Pain and Magic" sums it up pretty well. Full of surprises for anyone not familiar with this dancers story, as much about Balanchine as it is about his ballets and this dancer personally.

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The Victor Book of Ballets and Ballet Music by Robert Lawrence
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Ballet Music , Ballet Stories , Ballet History
Publisher Simon and Schuster 1950 Pages 531   some photo, illustration, music, black and white
Discription of ballets C. 1950.

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