Portrait Gallery

First edition.  314pp with occasional black and white illustrations.  Quarter bound in red cloth over black paper-covered boards.  Deckled edges.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed at spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original laminated, illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped. gently bumped at extreme edges.

de Mille was one of the most successful dance choreographers of the 20th century.  In this volume she presents pen portraits of some of the most interesting and prominent people she met during her professional and private lifes, including dancers Isadore Duncan, Alicia Alonso, Katherine Dunham, and impressarios the Shuberts, Billy Rose and Sol Hurok.  She is unrivalled in describing the actualities of dance and theatrical performance.