Drame

1929 · réf. 18049 — 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 . Horace Liveright hardcover