Buckle, Richard George Balanchine, Ballet Master: A biography.

In collaboration with John Taras.

New York, Random House, [1988].
8vo, XI, 409 pp., [16] l.ill.

In original cloth and pictorial dust jacket.
Near very good condition, price-clipped jacket, light wear to dj.

First American edition, published the same year as the London edition.
This biography of George Balanchine (1904–1983), one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century, is written by renowned ballet critic Richard Buckle (1916–2001).
It traces Balanchine’s career as a dance student in Russia, his collaboration with Sergei Diaghilev, his work on Broadway, and his founding of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet.