![]() Ruth Beavington has worked as a teacher in. PROVENANCE: From the library of Claude Orr. So when she tried on her first pair of pink ballet shoes her dream came true. This book has just one small section of the silver wrapper present and loosely inserted at the rear of the book. The dustwrapper for this book was made of a thin silver paper, rather like that of a chocolate wrapper and thus extant copies are virtually unknown. In Selfridges Ballet Shoes was given its own department, with customers limited to one copy each (even the author was only permitted to purchase two copies.) The story, which draws heavily on the author's own experiences as an actress during the 1920's has been dramatised on numerous occasions and continues to enchant children to this day. ![]() Published on 28th September 1936 the book was an instant success and sold out almost immediately. The ballet pointe - for someone their daily bread and butter, for others dance shoes shrouded in a little secret (especially for dads, whom I BTW welcome here, and who look at the pointe shoes in our stores with a peculiar look, tapping the platform of the pointe and say wanderingly. ![]() The very rare first edition of the author's first children's novel. A very good copy, some light fraying to the spine ends. The inscription on the front endpaper reads, "To remind you of a hectic seven weeks, Noel Streatfeild, 1936." Inscribed by the author to her proof reader and close friend, Claude Orr. Original green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. ![]()
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