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KARSAVINA, Tamara.

Theatre Street.

Theatre Street.

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Stock Code 104561

London, Constable & Co., 1948

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Inscribed presentation copy . An absorbing autobiography of one the greatest prima ballerinas of all time. It covers vivid pictures of her childhood in St Petersburg in the late 1880s and her career at the Mariinsky Theatre and the Ballets Russes. This edition includes an additional chapter on Diaghilev as he had since died, in an 'attempt to bring some unity into the features of his personality'.

Revised and enlarged edition, 8vo; presentation copy inscribed by Karsavina on the half title 'To very dear (?) and friend Tamara Karsavina', front free endpaper excised. illustrations throughout; blue cloth, a good copy.

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