PETIT ROLAND: (1924-2011) French ballet dancer and choreographer. A printed 4to souvenir programme for a performance of Roland Petit's Les Ballets de Paris in Carmen, n.p. (New York), n.d. (November 1949), signed by Petit in bold blue ink with his name alone to an inside full-photograph page, the image showing Petit in a sem-profile head and shoulders pose, also signed by Zizi Jeanmaire (1924-2020) French ballet dancer, actress and singer. Jeanmaire has signed an inside page in bold red ink, adding a few words in French in her hand, across printed biographical text. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG

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