Ballerina

New York: Triangle Books. Very Good+. 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright, with a couple of small spots of fading to the front cover. The spine of the book has some beginning fading. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned, due to the acid content of the paper. There are black ink lines that have been partially erased on the front endpaper. "Eleanor Smith worked as a society reporter and cinema reviewer for some time, then as a publicist for various circus companies. In the latter role she traveled widely, and gained inspiration for her third career, writing popular novels and short stories which often provided the basis for the 'Gainsborough melodramas' of the period. These stories often had a romanticized historical or Gypsy setting, based on her own research into Romany culture (she believed one of her paternal great-grandmothers to have been a Gypsy). During her time traveling with various circuses, she had contact with a wide array of artists and performers, and she often ventured out on her own to explore the areas where the circus would make camp. " *(from Wikipedia) .