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William Heinemann, publishers, London - Crown Library edition, 1931. hardcover, 5½" x 8¾", lacking jacket. Previous owner's name to front endpaper (dated 1936). Green tinted top edges. Light foxing to some pages & edges. Book in GOOD condition. Tamara Karsavina, one of the most famous Russian dancers, recalls her extraordinary life as a ballerina. She was prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg from 1902, and starred in Diaghileff's Ballets Russes (1909 - 1922). She scored a particular triumph with Nijinsky in the "Spectre de la Rose". Twenty-two b&w photographs