copyright 1952; Historical Development by Lincoln Kirstein. Descriptive Text by Muriel Stuart. Illustrations by Carlus Dyer. With a Preface by George Balanchine; Alfred A. Knopf publishers, New York; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; no dust jacket.
 
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The 800 masterful drawings by Carlus Dyer demonstrate the proper body position, balance point, movement, and attitude of each position and step in the basic classical repertoire. As Balanchine points out in his preface, the illustrations are more accurate than photographs could possibly be because they have been corrected and recorrected until they approximate the ideal.