Fonteyn (Margot).- Beaton (Cecil) Ballet, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Margot [Fonteyn] "with Blessings & affections & admiration - Love from Cecil" to front free endpaper, photographic plates, including of Fonteyn, illustrations, gutter slightly cracked at one or two points, a few spots to fore-edge, light browning and some spotting to endpapers, original cloth, some very subtle discolouration to spine, slight fading and light bumping to spine ends, dust-jacket, spine lightly browned, foxing to flaps, faint spotting elsewhere, creased at extremities with some chipping, mainly to spine head, larger chip to head of upper panel, London & New York, Wingate, 1951; and 2 others from the library of Margot Fonteyn, one with signed presentation inscription to her from the author Ann Hutchinson Guest, the other signed to her brother Felix [Hookham] from the author photographer Gordon Anthony, 8vo & 4to (3)

⁂ Provenance: Purchased by the vendor at the sale of Margot Fonteyn's Private Library for Macmillan Cancer Relief, Royal Horticultural Society's New Hall, Tuesday 10th November 1998.