Karsavina, Tamara Theatre Street: The Reminiscences of Tamara Karsavina.

With a foreword by J.M. Barrie.

London, William Heinemann, [1930].
8vo, port., XV, 341 pp., ill.

In original green cloth. Without dust jacket.
In good condition, rubbed and faintly soiled, short tears to spine, bookplate ‘The Book Society Ex Libris’ with owner signature to first free endpaper, traces of ink to front paste-down endpaper.

First published in 1930. New impression.

This is the memoir of Tamara Karsavina (1885–1978), the prima ballerina and principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet, and later of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Karsavina’s husband confirmed that she wrote the memoir herself, directly in English. Karsavina later noted that she completed writing the book on the day Diaghilev died but chose not to revise what she had written about him, stating: 'I left him still alive as I had known him'.
The book includes a foreword by J.M. Barrie.