About this title: Now in paperback, Astaire remembers his 50-year career in dance and allows readers to see through the effortless balletic exuberance to the real man and artist. 46 photos.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Fair in fair dust jacket. 338 p. : illus.; 22 cm. Includes Illustrations. worn copy--water damage to spine, intact and complete, offered WAF read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Date Published: 2000-08-25
ISBN-13:9780815410584ISBN:0815410581
Description: VG Very Good. Softcover. Retired From Library, typical library markings but no pastedowns. Otherwise, Book looks uncirculated with no creases to cover protected in Laminations and all pages clean. Binding is tight and square. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, U.S. A
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Corners sharp, no inscriptions, some fading along spine of black boards. Fred Astaire, unlike other celebrities even of his period, was extremely sparing or unforthcoming when it came to his personal life. This book is the first-ever glimpse into what made this master dancer and entertainer tick. He went on after this book, written at an age when many of his peers had retired, to have several more active career decades. 5.75" x 8.5". read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cooper Square Press, New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780815410584ISBN:0815410581
Description: ACCEPTABLE. Spine has 3-4 creases; all pages fully intact. ~15 pages have minor water wrinkles in the top corner; text is FULLY readable. Cover has small corner creases and a couple of small marks on the back in permanent marker; no tears. No previous owner names or other writing. 071208 (gw84) read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: No Binding
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1959].
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition (so stated; "E-I"). 8vo. 24 pages of b/w illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket designed by Ben Feder (unclipped; couple of short tears; small stain). Very good-fine. 338 pages. No signatures or bookplates. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Inscribed by Fred Astaire to Doris Quinn on half title hardback; Fine in near fine+ dust jacket (faint soil on the white jacket) read more
Edition: Later printing of 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, NY
Date Published: 1959
Description: Fine, a bright copy in very good, priced dust jacket s howing minor edge dings, a dime-size chip. White panels show a little soil. Solid, sound text block has no writing, no marginalia, no highlighting, no bookplates, etc.; no remainder marks, NOT ex-library; NOT BC ed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1987-11
ISBN-13:9780060914813ISBN:0060914815
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, NY
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very Good/ No Jacket. 338 pages, original black cloth covered boards with silver lettering, one cover tip slightly bumped, owner's neat name and address on title page, else a clean tight copy. read more
"After reading the book about Frank Sinatra, I was expecting another great book about an interesting person. This book just feel short. I felt like I was reading a history book. Boring. Not worth reading."
"I only read this once, while I was waiting out a rainstorm, when I ducked into a little library annex at the American Embassy in Vienna, in 1972. It was a slim little book, gracefully written but not very forthcoming--just as one would expect from Astaire."
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