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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. Good. 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0354042246 Greycloth with bright black lettering on spine illustrations on upper cover. Foxing spots on cover. Slight bump to corners. No inscription. Creasing to a few page corners. Frontis portrait. A few spots to page tips. 198 pages clean and tight. Artist, dandy and wit, the cosmopolitan James McNeill Whistler was born in America, spent part of his childhood in Russia, and for three years was enrolled at West Point (the United States Military Academy). Failure in a chemistry examination ended his chances of becoming a soldier: 'If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a general,' he commented later. 'It is easier,' says Hesketh Pearson in this entertaining biography, 'to think of silicon as a gas than of Whistler as a soldier,' a judgement which his readers must endorse. Having learnt to etch with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and decorated the margins of his maps…
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- Title The Man Whistler
- Author Pearson, Hesketh
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- Publisher MACDONALD J, London
- Date 1978
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TBS The Book Service Ltd, 18/05/1978 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. **1st Edition** **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition Macdonald
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London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1978. Introduction by Benny Green. xviii, 198pp, 8pp b/w plates, index. Or cl boards in price-clipped dust-jacket. 'As always in his fascinating biographies, Hesketh Pearson concentrates on the man behind the public figure.'. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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