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West Coast Rare Books

West Coast Rare Books

Westport / Ireland

Haskell, In His True Centre, An Interim Autobriography.

Haskell, In His True Centre, An Interim Autobriography.

Haskell, Arnold L. In His True Centre. An Interim Autobriography. With thirty photographs. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1951. 23cm x 14.5cm. 328 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Autobiography written by Haskell before he was fifty/ rounded account of the making of an artist, and of the development and shaping of a constructive critic and a considerable force in the aesthetics of our time/ the picture of an age and an artistic “tour de force” in its chosen form/ Haskell, widely known as a writer on the ballet/ the creator of the term “Balletomania”/ Diaghilev and his circle in the early ‘twenties/ first director of Sadler’s Well School/ chapters on theory and teaching children/ jacket drawing from the bust of the author by Arthur Fleischmann/ other books by the author: “Waltzing Matilda”, “The Australians”, “The National Ballet”, “The Making of a Dancer”/ personal photographs.

Our price: EUR 25,-- 

Haskell - In His True Centre - An Interim Autobiography.
Haskell – In His True Centre – An Interim Autobiography.

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Our shop is located on James Street in the beautiful old Georgian part of Westport between the tree-lined Mall and the Octagon, one of the town’s well known landmarks.