1946 Leo TOLSTOY AND HIS WIFE Tikhon Polner Russian Biography Literature
Tikhon Polner TOLSTOY AND HIS WIFE Jonathan Cape, 1946, London. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Nicholas Wreden. Size: 20,3 x 13,9 cm. Pp. 220. A cover edges are a bit battered; yellowed pages and on some there are spots. A dust jacket is faded and tears on edges and a spine; a little soiled and has a spotted. A very good condition. No marks , but book is from the library of Irish poet William Monk Gibbon. For condition and details, see scans.
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William Monk Gibbon (1896 – 29 November 1987) was an Irish poet and prolific author, known as “The Grand Old Man of Irish Letters”. His collection of over twenty volumes of poetry, autobiography, travel and criticism are kept at Queen’s University Belfast. He also wrote many published novels, and has been characterised as “self-regarding and prickly”. He was the son of the Rev. Canon William Monk Gibbon, a Church of Ireland clergyman, and from 1900 vicar of St. Nahi’s Church, Dundrum. His mother, Isabella Agnes Meredith, was a daughter of William Rice Meredith of Dublin, the brother of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith. Monk was a nephew of The Rt. Hon. Richard Edmund Meredith and a first cousin of Carew Arthur Meredith. Monk’s uncle inherited the Gibbon estates of Sleedagh House, County Wexford, and The Parks in Neston, Cheshire, which came to them via the Monk family from who he took his name. supremeauctiononlinesoftware.widgets.EbayGalleryZ.swf supremewidgets supremewidgets
