Author: H. J. Bruce
Title: Thirty Dozen Moons
Description: London, Constable, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce autobiography from British diplomat Henry James Bruce, with illustrations. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. Opening in St. Petersburg in 1913, this autobiography focusses on the married life of Henry James Bruce, a British diplomat and author. Nearing the end of a diplomatic career in the Austrian, German and Russian Empires, he married Tamara Karsavina, a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. The odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Thirty Dozen Moons Karsavina Dozen Not Stated


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