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 Untold Story: The Life of Isadora Duncan (New York: Liveright, 1929). Isadora Duncan's autobiography My Life (New York: Liveright, 1927) recorded events through 1921, prior to the period when she opened a dance school in Moscow. Desti intended to tell the rest of the story. . Spine very lightly sunned, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is chipped and worn at the edges, with some loss at the heel. VERY GOOD/FAIR. . Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 281 pp .

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 18049
Title: The Untold Story: The Life of Isadora Duncan, 1921-1927
Author: Desti, Mary
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Edition: First Edition Thus. 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Horace Liveright
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1929
Keywords: Biography;, isadora duncan, 1920s, Dance, Ballet
Bookseller catalogs: Theatre & Performing Arts;

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