Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova
by Danilova, Alexandra
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, spine cocked.
- ISBN 10
- 0394505395
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505398
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, spine cocked.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394505395 . Burgundy cloth binding. Many photos. A detailed autobiography by the late storied prima ballerina who started out as a eight-year-old dancer with St. Petersburg's Maryinsky School, danced with George Balanchine and Diaghilev in Paris and Monte Carlo at the Ballets Russe and directed her own touring company before teaching with the School of American Ballet. Winner of the 1986 de la Torre Bueno Prize for the best book in the Field of Dance Studies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35292
- Title
- Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova
- Author
- Danilova, Alexandra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, spine cocked.
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394505395
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505398
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0394505395, Ballerinas, Alexandra Danilova, Ballet
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Memoir; Dance;
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
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Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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