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Cyril W. Beaumont. The History of the Harlequin. C.W.Beaumont, LONDON, 1926.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Signed by Cyril Beaumont to the orginal owner in 1927. Edition limited to 325 copies numbered to 141. Spine damaged. Pages and binding tight, cover design and decorations by Claudio Guercio, with a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell. Illustrations from contemporary sources. .
Seller: susan emson, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut. Light spotting to endpapers, boards browned, spine ends a little bumped and two small splashes to spine itself. Five hand-coloured illustrations, and with monochrome illustrations throughout. First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated., Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-eminent dance historians of the twentieth century. He published this book from his Charing Cross Road bookshop which, from 1910 until his death in 1976, specialised in all things dance. A life of Beaumont, by Kathrine Sorley Walker, was published in 2006.
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom