(PICASSO, PABLO.) Kochno, Boris; and Maria Luz. Le Ballet. Lithographed frontispiece created for this work by Picasso ("La Danseuse" Bloch 767; Mourlot 259); 415 text illustrations, many tipped-in and/or folding color plates, some after Léger, Miró, Bakst, among others. 4to, pictorial red cloth after design by Henri Matisse; front joint starting; publisher's lettered acetate dust jacket, lightly scratched. first edition of Kochno's superb history of ballet "lavishly illustrated with excellent reproductions in photogravure"--Goeppert/Craemer 68. Paris: Arts du Monde/Hachette, 1954