The world of ballet /
edited by Anne Geraghty ; illustrated by Robert Geary.
- London : Collins, 1972.
- 380 p., 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Introduction -- Watching the Ballet / Two Child Dancers / A Visit to the Bolshoi Ballet / Stories from the Ballet: Swan Lake ; Coppelia ; Giselle ; The Nutcracker ; The Sleeping Beauty -- The Ugly Swan / Ballet as a Career / Famous Dancers of Today: Margot Fonteyn ; Rudolph Nureyev ; Lynn Seymour ; Marcia Haydee ; Anthony Dowell and David Wall ; Antoinette Sibley ; Merle Park ; Doreen Wells / "To Dance or Not to Dance?" / The Dawning of an Obsession: 'Rudolph Nureyev / A Dancer's Life / The Rise of Puddle Fratrum / Ballet You Can Make / Make-Up for Ballet / Choreography / Balanchine: Choreographer in his Element / Famous People in the History of Ballet: Marius Petipa ; Mikhail Fokine ; Anna Pavlova ; Tamara Karsarvina ; Vaslav Nijinsky ; Léonide Massine ; George Balanchine ; British Ballet (Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton) / The Blue Train, the Story of Anton Dolin / Exotics: dance outside the ballet tradition / Rumer Godden -- Noel Streatfeild -- Mary Stacey -- Helen Cresswell -- Arnold Haskell -- Clement Crisp -- Shelagh Fraser -- by Alexander Bland (an extract from the book 'Nureyev') -- Elaine McDonald -- Joan Aiken -- Beckles Willson -- Leichter Studios -- Elizabeth Malcolm -- Bernard Taper (An extract from his biography 'Balanchine') -- Clement Crisp -- Joan Selby-Lowndes -- photographed by Baron.