Author: SMITH, LADY ELEANOR.
Title: Ballerina.
Description: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. 1st edition. Portrays the life of a great ballerina, and her eventual fall and was adapted into the 1941 Hollywood film The Men in Her Life directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Loretta Young and Conrad Veidt. Pp.368, owner's pencilled name and small bookseller's embossed stamp (William Pile, Wallington) to front free endpaper. Black cloth, spine slightly sunned, minor edge wear. VG.** Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902–1945) was an English writer and active member of the 'Bright Young Things' - a nickname given by the tabloid press to a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.

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