"To be sure, reading about the dance is highly unsatisfactory, but not neerty so
unsatisfactory as not reaCiing about it."-JOHN MARTIN.
Readers who noticed our PR advertisement last month will reeall that it inaugurated a
series of detailed announcements, each of which
was
designed to outline the stock we have
gathered in one or another of our fields of specialization. Last month's advertisement dealt
with our CINEMA collection; this one covers the DANCE.
Dance books, as everyone who has tried to buy them will agree, are both scarce and ex–
pensive.
As
against Isadora Duncan's "My Life"; an odd volume of the Chalif "Text Book on
Dancin$"; and Irene Castle's affectionate recollections of her husband-which exhaust the dance
repertOire of the average store-we can point to several hundred books and pamphlets in half
a dozen languages.
It
would be idle to pretend that the books are cheap; but we watch our
prices carefully, with the result that they appear to compare favorably with those of the few
other stores where any selection of dance books is to be found.
Encompassing every aspect of contemporary dance, the backbone of our stock are such
varied but basic works as Radir's "Modern Dance for the Youth o£ America"; Vaganova's "Fun–
damentals of the Classic Dance"; and "The Country Dance Book" of Tolman and Page. 0£
at least equal importance are the general "background" books, o£ which we recommend most
highly Curt Sachs's "World History of the Dance," or, for those who seek a briefer treatment,
John Martin's "The Dance." The rest, by and large
1
tend to break down into two categories:
memoirs and appreciations of the great dancers of tne past-Karsavina, Nijinsky, Pavlova, and
others-and the beautiful picture books o£ the making of which there seems to be no end.
We carry the American magazines DANCE; DANCE INDEX· and DANCE OBSERVER;
and the British BALLET; THE BALLET; BALLET CARNAVAL; and DANCING TIMES.
We usually have in stock every American dance book which
is
currently in print and most
British dance books as well. Our major effort, however,
is
devoted to locaung out-of-print books
which are no longer generally available and to nursing along what
is
beginning
to
be a slow
trickle of current and out-of-print volumes from Italy, France, Switzerland, and several other
European .countries. We invite those who are seeking specific titles to list their "wants, with
us;
w~
Will
gladly search for books which cannot be supplied from stock, and will furnish
quotations as promptly as possible. A list of our dance books
is
now in preparation and will
be sent to anyone requesting it.
LAWRENCE R. MAXWELL • BOOKS
Open
2-10
P. M.
45 CHRISTOPHER STREET, NEW YORK 14
THEATRE
DANCE
FILM
Hulme-Speculations-$4.50 • Her–
bert Read-Form in Modern Poetry
-$1.50 • Cocteau-Orphee-$3.50
• Muir-Structure of the Novel–
$3 • Laforgue-Defeat' of Baude–
laire-$4.50 • Fayer-Gide, Freedom,
Dostoevski-$3 • Muchnic-Dosto–
evsky's English Reputation-$2 •
Freud-Ego and ld-$2.25 • Freud
-An Autobiographical Study-$2.25
MUSIC
WAtkins 9-3494
EXPERIMENTAL WRITING
OUT
AND
0 F
NEW
P R I NT
B 0 0 K S
BOUGHT AND SOLD
CALL CHelsea 3-8430
Open 2 to II p.m.
THE KITTREDCE BOOK SHOP
in the village
18 CORNELIA STREET
SPEC ·~ALIZING
IN
PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY,
LITERARY CRITICISM AND
MODERN LITERATURE
Prices are Postpaid
NEW YORK 14, N.Y.
• Blackmur-The Double Agent-$3 •
Blackmur-The Expense of Greatness
-$3 • Bergson-Two Sources of
Morality and Religion-$3 • Jung
-Psychological Types-$10 • Jung
-Analytical Psychology-$7.50 •
Woodcock-William Godwin-$4 •
E. E. Cummings-Him-$2.50 • Vir–
ginia Woolf-The Moment-$3.25 •
