[Dance] Terry, Walter. (1913–1982) & Nikolais, Alwin. (1910–1993) & Dudinskaya, Natalia. (1912–2003) & Grant, Alexander. (1925–2011) & Ostergaard, Solvejg. (1939–1999) & Kehlet, Niels. (b. 1938) & Hart, John. (1921–2015) & Fonteyn, Margot. (1919–1991) & La Meri. (1898–1988)
Signed title pages and other signed documents
Signed title pages and other leaves cut from books on dance, inscribed to Paul McMahon unless noted otherwise. In excellent condition unless noted otherwise. As follows:Walter Terry, Invitation to Dance (New York: A. Barnes & Co., 1942). 8 x 5 inches (20.3 x 13 cm). Inscribed, "To Paul — This is a Collector's item! & someday it'll be worth its weight in ---?" Cut edge is frayed, outer edge is uncut.
Walter Terry, Great Male Dancers of the Ballet (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1978). 11 x 8.5 inches (27.7 x 21 cm).
Leaf (pp. 63–64) cut from Alwin Nikolais, "No Man from Mars," an article in Selma Jeanne Cohen, The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1965). Signed by Nikolais. 8 x 8 inches (20.2 x 20 cm).
Leaf (pp. 51–52) cut from unidentified book with beginning of illustrated article by Konstantine Sergeyev, "The School as Part of My Life." Signed by Sergeyev. 9.75 x 7.5 inches (24.8 x 18.8 cm).
Leaf (pp. 55–56) cut from unidentified book (probably same as previous) with beginning of illustrated article by Natalia Dudinskaya, "My Philosophy of Dance." Signed by Dudinskaya. 9.75 x 7.25 inches (24.8 x 18.5 cm). Cut edge rough.
Leaf (pp. [27]–28 with whole-page photo of Alexander Grant lifting an anonymous female partner cut from unidentified photo book. Signed by Grant. 9.75 x 7.25 inches (24.8 x 18.6 cm).
Leaf (pp. 37–38) cut from unknown book (possibly a dictionary of dancers) with entry on Niels Kehlet. Signed by Kehlet (no inscription). 9 x 6.25 inches (22.6 x 15.5 cm).
Leaf (pp. 81–82) cut from unknown book (same as previous, possibly a dictionary of dancers) with entry on Solvejg Østergaard. Signed by Østergaard (no inscription). 9 x 6.25 inches (22.6 x 15.5 cm).
John Hart, The Royal Ballet in Performance (New York: Coward-McCann, 1959). Signed by Hart. 9.75 x 7 inches (24.6 x 18 cm).
Leaf with portrait of La Meri [real name: Russell Merriweather Hughes] in profile by Marcus Blechman, cut from unidentified book; verso blank. Signed by La Meri. 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20.5 cm).
From the library of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon’s stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy’s Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications. (22159)
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