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The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance / Edmund de Waal.
Lippincott Library HG1552.E64 D49 2012
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection HG1552.E64 D49 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Waal, Edmund.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ephrussi family.
- De Waal, Edmund.
- Jewish bankers--Europe--Biography.
- Jewish bankers.
- Jewish businesspeople--Europe--Biography.
- Jewish businesspeople.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--Europe--Biography.
- Art.
- Netsukes--Private collections--England--London.
- Netsukes.
- De Waal, Edmund--Travel--Europe.
- Travel.
- Netsukes--Private collections.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- Europe.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 418 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First revised edition and illustrations American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
- Summary:
- Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Paris, 1871-1899
- pt. 2. Vienna, 1899-1938
- pt. 3. Vienna, Kovecses, Tunbridge Wells, Vienna, 1938-1947
- pt. 4. Tokyo, 1947-2001
- Coda. Tokyo, Odessa, London, 2001-2009.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374168285
- 0374168288
- OCLC:
- 816508751
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