Moussia : The Life and Death of Marie Bashkirtseff
New York: The Macaulay Co, 1929.
1st English Language Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. Item #6298
Top edge soil, light cock, light wear; Dust Jacket soil, rubbed, 1/2" head chip with 1" tear, small tears and chips. Solid hardcover. ; Biography of 19th-century prodigy Marie Bashkirtseff, a talented Russian painter, whose wrote one of the best-regarded diaries of her era, before an untimely tubercular death. "In such influences, in a household filled with violence and disorder and shadowed by suspicions and scandal without, grew up one of the most amazing women in all history, a woman whose twenty-five years of brilliant and tragic life have become immortal." ; 300 pages.
Price: $49.95