Bloomsbury, a house of lions / Leon Edel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edel, Leon, 1907-1997.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Intellectual life.

London (England).

London (England)--Biography.

Bloomsbury group.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; New York : J. B. Lippincott Company, [1979]

Contents:

I. Thoroughly; The hunter's eye; Caliban in different voices; Very serious young men; Hands; A first-class carriage; Thoby's room

II. A haunted house; The sanity of art; The other face; 46 Gordon Square; Clive in Paris; Leonard in Ceylon; Lytton in Cambridge; Bloomsbury: first phase; Thoby

III. Resurrections; The education of Duncan Grant; Phase two: Fitzroy Square; Vision and design; A journey into Byzantium; Bloomsbury: The third phase; Pericles and Aspasia

IV. A crystal moment; Between the acts; The war; Desmond in France; Love among the artists; Eminence of Lytton; Maynard at Versailles; Houses of lions; The memoir club.

Notes:

"First edition."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1979".

ISBN:

0397010435 :

OCLC:

4804676