📚 Ballet

Codified movement: court to stage, the schools, the repertory, and the bodies the art has always demanded.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ballet in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Theatre Street	Tamara Karsavina	1930	19
	Complete book of ballets	Cyril W. Beaumont	1937	16
	On Wings of Joy	Trudy Garfunkel	1994	15
	Ballet	Anna Paskevska	1990	13
	A dictionary of ballet terms	Leo Kersley	1952	12
	The ballet-lover's pocket-book	Kay Ambrose	1943	9
	Anatomy and ballet	Celia Sparger	1949	9
	Second steps in ballet	Thalia Mara	1956	9
	The ballet-lover's companion	Kay Ambrose	1949	8
	The language of ballet	Thalia Mara	1966	8
	The book of ballet	James Audsley	1954	7
	Margot Fonteyn	Meredith Daneman	2004	7
	Michel Fokine & his ballets	Cyril W. Beaumont	1935	6
	Ballet basics	Sandra Noll Hammond	1974	6
	The Usborne Little Ballet Treasury	Katie Daynes	2004	6
	Balletomania	Arnold L. Haskell	1934	5
	A dictionary of ballet	George Buckley Laird Wilson	1957	5
	Modern ballet	Percival, John	1970	5
	Ballet Book	Deborah Bowes	1999	5
	Apollo's angels	Jennifer Homans	2010	5
	Ballet beautiful	Mary Helen Bowers	2012	5
	Grammaire de la danse classique	Germaine Prudhommeau	1971	4
	Ballet and modern dance	Susan Au	1988	4
	Choreography & narrative	Susan Leigh Foster	1996	4
	The technical manual and dictionary of classical ballet	Gail Grant	1950	3
	The pointe book	Janice Barringer	1991	3
	Ballet for Beginners	Marie-Laure Medova	1995	3
	The illustrated book of ballet stories	Barbara Newman	1997	3
	Classes in classical ballet	Asaf Messerer	2007	3
	The Cambridge companion to ballet	Marion Kant	2007	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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