Author: MIKES, GEORGE
Title: Leap Through the Curtain - the Story of Nora Kovich and Istvan Rabovsky
Description: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1955, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black title on green boards which has fading to spine and a very small portion of front else clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some foxing to closed edges else very clean and unmarked. Preface by Sol Hurok, the impresario of Pavlova, Chaliapine, Marian Anderson et al. The two Hungarian ballet stars, who had escaped from East Berlin, recount their life story from Hungary to Russia and from there to Berlin and the West. 9 photographs. C3B. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Hungarian Ballet Stars, Russia, East Berlin


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