101 - [DANCE] BOULENGER, Jacques. From the Waltz to the Tango: Society Dance from the First Empire to the Present Day.

[DANCE] BOULENGER, Jacques. From the Waltz to the Tango: Society Dance from the First Empire to the Present Day. First edition on Imperial Japan paper, limited edition. A copy enhanced with a dedicatory inscription, in a signed binding from the period. Enough to make you want to take to the dance floor! Paris, Devambez—“À l’enseigne du Masque d’Or,” 1920 In-4, duck-blue half-maroquin with corner pieces, smooth spine adorned with a long gold decoration consisting of arabesques and lyres, gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine preserved. Binding signed Simon Kra. 73 pp., frontispiece and 6 full-page color reproductions in a serpentine layout, numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text. Spine slightly faded, minor scuffing from use. First edition adorned with 7 beautiful color compositions by Goyon, Capiello, Gabriel Domergue, Guy Arnoux, Sem, Edouard Halouze, and Drian. Limited edition of 1,100 copies; this is one of the 100 numbered head copies on Imperial Japan paper (No. 6), without the original drawing listed in the colophon. This copy is enhanced by a beautiful autograph dedication signed by the author to his friend Serge André (1890–1963), an industrialist who served as co-editor of the magazine *L’Opinion* alongside Jacques Boulenger from 1919 to 1923. It is followed by a later ex-libris (dated 1967, in Chizeray-Luny). In good condition.