Observations by henry moore (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Vol 1: Illustrations throughout, including frontis piece. End papers slightly sunned. White cloth covered boards bottom edge is darkened , slight bumping to head of spine. Very good indeed. Dj, slight bumping and wear to extremities, very good indeed. Vol 2: Illustrations throughout, including frontis piece. Blue cloth boards, slightly bumped head and foot of spine, minor marks, very good indeed. Dj is smudged with wear to extremities, particularly head and foot of spine, also slight folding to top edge. Very good. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".…