Beaumont, Cyril W. Complete Book of Ballets: A Guide to the Principal Ballets of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938.
8vo, XXIV, 900 pp., ill.

In original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Without dust jacket.
In good condition, lightly rubbed, owner stamps to first free endpaper, pages with some foxing and tanning.

One of the first two American editions, both published in 1938 (the first edition was published in London in 1937).
The magnum opus of prominent British dance historian and critic Cyril W. Beaumont (1891–1976), this classic work includes essays on figures such as Marie Taglioni, Marius Petipa, Jules Perrot, Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska, George Balanchine, and Frederick Ashton. It also covers topics like the Alhambra and Empire ballets as well as Soviet ballets.