Search Results: The Untold Story - the Life Of Isadora Duncan, 1… by Mary Desti

New York: Horace Liveright. 1929. VG+, sm bumsp and light wear, no dj .

Horace Liveright, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709.

New York.: Horace Liveright., 1929. 3rd printing in year of first.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover sun-fade, spill discoloration, front. Spine end wear. Slight front board wobble.. Berger, Paul (1911 B&W portrait of Duncan in Paris with her daughter).. 1 Tan cloth over boards; black and gold cover, spine graphics, titles. xiv p., 1 l., 17-281 p. 23 cm. B&W Portraits, Plates, Facsimiles. Top page block black dye; outside block deckled. Paper quality: off-white textured. Artist and dancer Isadora Duncan wrote her autobiography, ending her story in 1921. She had become known as finding her inspiration in "the long sealed in the secret archives of sculptural Greece". Her friend and biographer Mary Desti continues her story, particularly in Russia. In 1927, Duncan was tragically killed when starting out with Buggatti (sp. ? ) in his open car, her trailing scarf was caught in the mechanism, and snapped her neck immediately on departure. Duncan had become a sensation for her… Read More

NY: Horace Liveright. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1929. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Second printing before publication (February 1929). Publisher's full gray blocked cloth, gilt and black lettering and decoration on spine and cover, top edge black. Illustrated with 24 photographs, facsimilies and reproductions. Mary Desti Dempsey (1871-1931) left Chicago for Paris in 1901 with her then year-old son, Preston Sturges. In Paris, she met and formed a life-long friendship with dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan. Desti (who adopted this name because it sounded like d'Este) undertook various enterprises in Europe, including a cosmetic business. She frequently accompanied Duncan in her travels, and occasionally Duncan lived with her. Duncan was staying with Desti in Nice at the time of her sudden death in an automobile accident on September 14, 1927. Following Duncan's death, Desti, a casual writer of both fiction and non-fiction, wrote a Duncan biography, The… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York, NY: Horace Liveright, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9.13 x 6.57 x 1.11. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Horace Liveright, New York, NY 1929. 281 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Bears the stylized owner signature of Katharine Hawley. Katharine, a tall, stunningly beautiful woman, was a student of Isadora Duncan's sister, Elizabeth Duncan, and was training with Ruth St. Denis at Denishawn. She married filmmaker Dudley Murphy and starred in some of his movies, including Aphrodite (1920), The Syren (1923) and Ballet Mecanique (1924). Her maternal home in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, was a gathering place for artists and performers. Size: 9.13 x 6.57 x 1.11. Media/Performing Arts::Dance Biography 6532 6532

Horace Liveright. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ; Grey art deco cloth cover has bumped spine caps and a 1/8" snag at edge of spine but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs foxed. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket is tattered at extremities, with foxed spine panel and soiled back panel but bright and in good+ condition. Publisher's price of $3.50 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ) .