People Who Dance INSCRIBED by JOHN GRUEN to ARTHUR MITCHELL

People Who Dance: 22 Dancers Tell Their Own Stories. John Gruen. Pennington: Dance Horizons / Princeton Book Company, 1988. First printing. 8vo. [178] pp. Black cloth. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket mildly rubbed with subtle toning to extremities of flaps. From the library of Arthur Mitchell, the first African American principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, and later choreographer and founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Inscribed by John Gruen to Arthur Mitchell, the subject of one of the book's chapters: "For Arthur - Visionary and Friend! Much Love, John Gruen, March 1989.”