Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #45037 Die Geschichte des Tanzes. John Schikowski.
Die Geschichte des Tanzes
Die Geschichte des Tanzes
Die Geschichte des Tanzes
Die Geschichte des Tanzes
Die Geschichte des Tanzes
Die Geschichte des Tanzes
Die Geschichte des Tanzes
Die Geschichte des Tanzes

Die Geschichte des Tanzes

Berlin: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1926. Hardcover. Quarto. 163 (3)pp., 49 plates. Original illustrated yellow cloth with red lettering on cover. Publisher's device on half-title. The history of dance from ancient cultures to the 20th century. Beautifully illustrated with more than 50 photogravures on 48 plates at rear, depicting dances of primitive indigenous people, Siamese, Egyptian, Greek, Spanish, Romanian, the dance of dervishes, and German dances, including Fanny Elssler, Isadora Duncan, Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman, Gret Palucca, Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet and the "Mechanical Ballet" of the Bauhaus students Kurt Schmidt and Georg Teltscher. Schikowski was one of the influential dance historians and sponsors of dance in Germany. Text in German. Binding rubbed along edges and spine. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Item #45037

Price: $95.00

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