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Tamara Karsavina - Theatre Street: The Reminiscences of Tamara Karsavina

Title: Theatre Street: The Reminiscences of Tamara Karsavina
Description: London, Constable & Company Ltd, 1948. Cloth. The revised edition of this immersive autobiography from iconic Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina, containing an additional chapter on Sergei Diaghilev. The revised, enlarged edition of the work. In the scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and sixteen monochrome plates. Collated complete. An autobiographical account of the life and career of Tamara Karsavina, a Russian prima ballerina, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. This edition has an additional chapter dedicated to Diaghilev, which was added by Karsavina due to having written the first edition the day she heard about his death. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with minor rubbing to the extremities and bumping to the head and tail of spine, otherwise very smart. Dust wrapper has edgewear and has handling marks to the wrap, heaviest to the spine and rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with minor offsetting to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not stated. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

Keywords: Autobiographical Russia Ballet Tamara Karsavina Russia Not stated

Price: GBP 39.00 = appr. US$ 55.69 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 908Y36

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