Misia and the Muses : The Memoirs of Misia Sert
1953003291NY: The John Day Company 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. NY: The John Day Company 1953. First edition no additional printings noted. vii 212pp; 16 b&w plates; index. Brown cloth; dust jacket. Softened spine ends mild smudging to fore-edge strip of offsetting to ffep; very good in a price-clipped jacket with moderate soiling toning and wear. With errata slip tipped in at rear noting several objections to the text raised by the widow of Vaslav Nijinsky. American first edition of this uncommon memoir by Russian-born pianist and arts patron Misia Serts 1872-1950 noted for her opulent Belle Époque Parisian art salon where she counted among her regular guests Debussy Satie Mallarmé Toulouse-Lautrec et al; Sert also furnished the basis for the entwined characters of Madame Verdurin and Princesse Yourbeletieff in Proust's La recherche du temps perdu. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong incorporating a drawing of Sert by Jean Cocteau whose literary portrait of Sert appears here both as introductory excerpt and later in full. <br/> <br/> The John Day Company hardcover
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