TAMARE PLATONOVNE KARSAVINOY, "BRODACHAYA SOBAKA," [To Tamara Platonova Karsavina, "Stray Dog"], Petrograd: Sovremenne Iskusstvo, 26 March 1914. 24 pp. 205 x 182 mm. A lavishly illustrated and exceptionally well composed collection of facsimiles of poems, musical compositions, and lithographed reproductions of drawings and portraits of the dancer executed by the most influential poets and artists of the "Silver Age" in Russia, all dedicated to Tamara Karsavina on the occasion of her birthday. Includes an essay by Nikolai Evreinov, a poem by Mikhai Kuzmin, two drawings of Karsavina by John Singer Sargent, a poem by Mikhail Lozinsky, a gilted lithograph of Karsavina by Soudeikine, as well as numerous musical compositions, and other works. THIS BOOK WAS PRINTED IN A VERY LIMITED EDITION, PROBABLY NO MORE THAN 100 COPIES. VERY RARE. PROVENANCE: M. Lesman, with his monogram by ink.