The Tragedy of Nijinsky

London: Robert Hale, 1938. Red cloth boards have age darkening to spine, a little wear to spine head and tail and gentle bumping to lower corner tips. Internally there is age toning to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. 320 pages. 12 illustrations including an unpublished photograph of Vaslaw Fomitch Nijinsky taken in his practice costume at Krasnoe Selo immediately after his graduation from the Imperial Russian Ballet School in 1908. Third impression April 1938 ( first was May 1937). Anatole Bourman entered the Russian Imperial Ballet School at the same time as Nijinsky and became one of his closest friends, and for many years followed his development and career, first as a member of the Imperial Ballet, and later as star of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He tells the part of Nijinsky's story which other biographers have left untold - his youthful ambitions and defeats, his brilliant rise to fame, his exploits with other students, the almost incredible ill fortune which followed him from the first. The author gives his interpretation of Nijinsky's later career, which differs from the stories others have told. 1. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.