Bourman, Anatole The Tragedy of Nijinsky.

In collaboration with D. Lyman.
Designed by Ernst Reichl.

New York, London, Whittlesey House, [1936].
8vo, XX, 291 pp., [10] l.ill.

In original pink cloth and rare pictorial dust jacket.
In good condition, lightly rubbed dj, light creasing, small losses and tears to dj, owner inscription to first free endpaper.

First edition, second printing.

This book is by Anatole Bourman (1888-1962), a dancer often referred to as the 'forgotten man' of ballet. He entered the Russian Imperial Ballet School alongside Nijinsky and quickly became one of his closest friends. For many years, Bourman followed Nijinsky's development and career, first as a member of the Imperial Ballet and later as a star of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In 1911, Bourman joined Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, where he remained until 1922. In 1927, Bourman and his wife, Léocadia Klementovitch, moved to the United States, where he became the ballet master at the Strand Theatre in New York City.