The Dance Goes On.

The frontispiece is an original lithograph by Pearl Binder. Number 20 of an edition of 33 copies only, signed by the author and artist.

[10], 381 pages. Printed on Simili Japon paper.

Cloth soiled with a light circular stain on the lower board. Buckram lightly rubbed at spine extremities. Cocked, corners lightly bumped. Paste-downs a little soiled. Minor foxing to pages 49-53, and 173-177. Small red mark to upper margin page 265. Pages rough cut, occasionally to different sizes. Page 181 cut close to the text block. Small pencil notation to the front paste-down recording book details and purchase price of 35 shillings(?). Text clean and unmarked.

With the ex-libris, to front paste-down, of Alberto Lopez Herce – possibly ex-Cónsul General de España in New York.

Louis Golding (1895-1958) British writer, scriptwriter, journalist, and essayist. Born in Manchester, England, he used the city and his Jewish upbringing as background and recurrent themes in his novels. Identifying himself as staunchly to the left in political terms the Hogarth Press published his attack on antisemitism and Nazism in his 'Letter to Adolf Hitler' in 1932. The Dance Goes On was his twelfth novel and is dedicated to "the dancer [Alexandra] Danilova and her dancing in le beau Danube". The story concerns a Russian ballerina who flourishes before and during the Russian Revolution, and a Russian revolutionary, and was described at the time as a change of style and "almost a pure adventure story" (Time book review 14/06/1937). Film scripts that Golding wrote and collaborated on include The Proud Valley in which Paul Robeson starred. His archive and papers are spread across a number of Universities including Yale, Texas, McGill, Leeds, and Birmingham, and also Manchester Library and the British Library.

Pearl Binder, Lady Elwyn-Jones (1904–1990) British artist and writer. Born in Salford, Manchester, of Jewish parents she studied art (lithography) at the Central School of Art and Design in London having her first solo show in London in 1929. She was involved in left-wing artistic circles and was a founder member of the Artists' International Association in 1933, which aimed to provide an artists' union for resistance to fascism in the 1930s. She was also an inveterate traveller keeping travel notes and diaries, as well as being the author of many books and the illustrator of some fifty books for various authors. Her work is held in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and her papers in the University of Brighton Design Archive.

The Corvinus Press was a private press established by George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow, (1907–1944) in London in early 1936.

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