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Max Beerbohm: A Kind of Life: Available Copies

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Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. And it was a very long age indeed: he became famous in the mid-1890s and remained so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, and his writings and drawings are keenly interesting. Maxs life, however, was relatively uneventful, and of interest, he said, only to himself. This biography of Beerbohm, the first in forty years, enlivens his story by quoting him whenever possible, and the resultthanks to Max himselfis a scintillating and entertaining book.John Hall moves quickly through Maxs history: schoolboy; college undergraduate; London caricaturist, journalist, and critic; Edwardian social butterfly; married man and self-exile to Italy in 1910, where he produced numerous books, essays, and caricatures; and, from 1935 to 1956, occasional BBC radio broadcaster. Hall notes that although all Maxs work during his fifteen early years on the London scene concerned contemporary art and life, after his retirement in 1910 his writings and drawings harkened back to the late-Victorian/Edwardian era and even to the Pre-Raphaelites; he became, he said, an interesting link with the past.This book, like Beerbohms work, highlights his connection with various eminences over three eras: Algernon Swinburne, J.A.M. Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and many others. Written in an idiosyncratic, opinionated, lively, quirky style, it is just the kind of biography of which Max might have (for the most part) approved. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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9.5 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 304 pages

B/w photos. 284pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2002). Near fine in near fine d.w.

.HARDCOVER EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET.TEXT UNMARKED.NOT EX-LIBRARY.binding is solid.

First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (cartoonists, dandies)

First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price, 284 clean, unmarked pages

Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book and unpriced dust jacket are in fine, As New, gift-giving condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. 8vo. 284 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar. 300097050

1.24 x 9.46 x 6.36 Inches; 224 pages

NEW . Clean tight fresh strong jacket boards text. No remainder or other markings.

F/F. Black-and-white and color illustrations. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover. As New. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. ; B&W and Color Illustrations; 8vo.; 284 pages. Binding is Hardcover; First Printing.

First Edition, First Printing; 284 clean, unmarked pages/index; brown c w/gilt spine titles; dj in mylar

xiv, 284 pages. Slight bumping to top of spine. Brown cloth with gold gilt title on spine. Clean interior. Tight binding.

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Cloth, dj, F/F. xiv+284pp, 16pp colour & b/w plates, index, a fine copy. A biography of Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm [ 1872 - 1956 ] the English essayist, parodist and caricaturist, celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age. 800 grams.

Fine in near fine dust jacket with short closed tear to bottom corner of front.

First edition, first printing. octavo hardback 298 pp illustrated Very Good + condition in Very Good + unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.