SVETLOV [IVCHENKO], Valerien.
Thamar Karsavina.
Thamar Karsavina.
Stock Code 125414
London, C.W. Beaumont, 1922
rare presentation copy
Limited-edition biography of Karsavina written by Valerien Svetlov, gift-inscribed to her personal friend - musician Margaret Cochrane.This book is a wonderfully sincere ode to one of the greatest dancers and indeed artists of the 20th century, Svetlov writes in his introduction, 'I have addressed myself to the task with a deep and genuine affection for the art that all my life has enthralled my senses - also with a feeling of deep admiration for the dancer's wonderful gifts.'
First edition, 4to (31.5 x 22 cm); limited to 120 copies printed on hand-made paper and 230 copies printed on antique paper, this copy printed on antique paper No.122; contemporary illuminated cloth-backed boards; frontispiece in colour, inscribed by Karsavina 'To Peggy with my love and great admiration for her beautiful enthusiasm, Thamar Karsavina' on verso; 17 hand-coloured plates and 15 sepia camera portrait photographs; 149 pp.
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