The Dancing Star by Gladys Malvern

The Dancing Star

The Story of Anna Pavlova

by Gladys Malvern

Illustrated by Dodo Adler

Collins, 1957, illustrated colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text, blue colour dipped top fore-edge, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, previous owners inscription on front end-paper, a little foxing to end-papers and introduction pages, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to edges, a little rubbing to covers (see photographs)

"In this biography of Anna Pavlova, Miss Malvern narrates the story of the great ballerina's life from the time when, as a child, Pavlova sees her first Ballet in the great Marinsky Theatre.
Next we read about Anna's admission to the Imperial Ballet School, and her progress in that august and strictly disciplined establishment, till she reaches the exalted position of Prima Ballerina.
The figures of well-known persons move across the pages of this book.  Charles Chaplin, Diaghilev, King Christian of Denmark, Kaiser Wilhelm, Nijinsky, and many of those artistes, musicians, choreographers and dancers whose contributions to their art have made Ballet what it is today."