The clique (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 334 pages. (SL#238).

Condizione: Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. 8vo.Good clean former library copy. First edition. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condizione: Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. 8vo.Good clean former library copy. First edition. . . . .

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Red cover with white and black lettering to front and spine. Illustration to front. No inscriptions. 246 pages, clean bright and tightly bound. Some pencil notes on title page Size: 6" By 8.5" Tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 8vo (21.5 cm), VI, 386 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. 13th edition of the UK annual register of trade members, listing 2,900 bookshops and book dealers along with their trading details, specialist fields, and catalogues.

Condizione: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter.…

Paper covers. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Covers soiled. List of second-hand and antiquarian booksellers in Edinburgh loosely inserted. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with thin neat strip of paper mount at head of third page. The sense of humour for which the St John's Wood Clique was known is reflected in the letter, which begins: 'Marks, Storey and I have just returned from Paris, (to which dissolute city we went to see the "Salon") and after a hard course of study of pictures, frescoes, elaborate "menus" at Champeaux and female costume reduced to its simplest form at Offenbach's Theatre - (where it chiefly consists of a belt with a few small coins hanging about) here we are home again - to Virtue, Simplicity and Work!' He is sorry to be late replying: Horsley's friend's drawing is a good one, and he has 'many friends better able than myself to advise him'. 'The sending in is to-morrow and so, good luck to him - I am sure he thoroughly deserves it.' Calderon writes that he and his colleagues were all very sorry to learn the cause of Horsley's absence from the last meeting: 'it was badly attended - besides yourself - Ward and Leighton were absent - but very interesting, as Cope brought forward his motion'. Calderon has 'seriously studied the "lighting" at the Salon', and wants to 'try it in one room here'. He ends by asking: 'Will you back me up?'.…