[BALLET]. Alexander Bland. Fonteyn and Nureyev; the Story of a Partnership. London: 1979. 4to, illustrations, original presentation leather. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS -- Alexander Bland. The Royal Ballet; the first Fifty Years. London: 1981. 4to, illustrations, some in colour, original cloth, dust-jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS -- Alexander Bland and John Percival. Men Dancing, London: 1984, 4to, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket. INSCRIBED BY MAUDE GOSLING. (3)

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[BALLET]. Alexander Bland. Fonteyn and Nureyev; the Story of a Partnership. London: 1979. 4to, illustrations, original presentation leather. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS -- Alexander Bland. The Royal Ballet; the first Fifty Years. London: 1981. 4to, illustrations, some in colour, original cloth, dust-jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS -- Alexander Bland and John Percival. Men Dancing, London: 1984, 4to, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket. INSCRIBED BY MAUDE GOSLING. (3)

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Alexander Bland was the pseudonym for the collaborators Nigel Gosling and his wife, the former dancer, Maude Lloyd. The Goslings were amongst the earliest and closest of Nureyev's friends after his 'leap' to the West in 1961. When Nureyev moved his principal residence to Paris in the early 1980s he retained a pied-à-terre in their Kensington house.

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