BALLET. – [Nigel GOSLING and Maude LLOYD.] ‘Alexander Bland’. The Royal Ballet, The First Fifty Years. London: Threshold Books Ltd., 1981. First edition, multi-signed by members of The Royal Ballet, 4to (288 x 216mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). Note: ‘Alexander Bland’ was the pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of Nigel Gosling and Maude Lloyd. The book is signed on the front-free endpaper by ‘Alexander Bland’, and the dancers Merle Park, David Wall, Monica Mason, Brenda Last, Alfreda Thorogood, Julien Hosking, Derek Deane, Lesley Collier and Vergie Derman. – And a further twelve volumes relating to ballet, including three albums of photographs, postcards and mounted illustrations relating to ballet with 13 signed photographs of Robert Helpmann, 6 signed photographs of Margot Fonteyn, 1 of Harold Turner and 1 of Mary Honer (13).