BALLET: Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) English Ballerina.
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BALLET: Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) English Ballerina. Book signed, a hardback edition of Fonteyn - Impressions of a Ballerina, written and decorated by William Chappell, First Edition published by Rockliff Corporation Ltd., 1951. With 40 black and white plates by Cecil Beaton. Bound in blue leather, by Messrs. Nevett Ltd. of Colindale, with gilt stamped decoration to cover and title to spine. Limited Edition number 202 of 250. Signed by both Fonteyn and Chappell individually with their names alone in fountain pen inks to the limitations page. Together with a selection of unsigned ballet programmes for various performances featuring Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Natalie Krassovska, John Gilpin, Rudolf Nureyev, Christopher Gable etc. Also including an edition of Anna Pavlova in Art & Life by Victor Dandre, published by Cassell, 1932, signed and inscribed by Dandre (Pavlova's manager and companion who asserted that he was her husband in the book) to the title page and dated 14th June 1935 in his hand, and further including a vintage signed 4 x 6 photograph of soprano Oda Slobodskaya in a full length costume pose at La Scala and a vintage signed 4to page by conductor John Barbirolli with a postcard photograph neatly affixed above the signature. Some light overall age wear, G to about VG, 86
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BALLET: Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) English Ballerina.
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