About this title: As this work makes clear, even the most civilized among us do not know how to behave ourselves in public. This work should be of interest to dancers and dance historians interested in accurately reproducing 19th-century dance scenes and the surrounding social mechanisms.
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780810109124ISBN:0810109123
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Gently used hard cover. 1st Edition. Light wear. Jacket has small tears along top edge, also some light surface scratches. Clean throughout, no remainder mark, no marginalia. VG. ISBN 0810109123. 225 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr, Evanston, IL
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780810109124ISBN:0810109123
Description: Very Good + Binding/Very Good + Dustjacket. 0810109123 DJ protected with Mylar Cover Previous owner's bookplate attached to ffep. No pencil or ink markings in text. Red cloth binding. Very small closed tears at head of dustjacket spine. Small closed tears at top and bottom of front dustjacket cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NORTHWESTERN UNIV PR
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780810109131ISBN:0810109131
Description: New. 'From The Ballroom To Hell' collects over one hundred little-known excerpts from dance, etiquette, beauty, and fashion manuals from roughly 1800-1890. It will be of great interest to dancers and dance historians, choreographers, and dramatists intere... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991
Description: Original Wraps. Near Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Original pictorial wrappers (softcover); 225pp; illus. Mild creasing to covers at corners, else Fine. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13:9780810109131ISBN:0810109131
Description: Good. 0810109131 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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