The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: As Pleasingly Exemplified in May Instances, Wherein the Serious Ones of the Earth, Carefully Exasperated, Have Beeen prettily Spurred on the Unseemliness and Indiscre

by [WHISTLER, James McNeill]

$30 · Offered by Between the Covers

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Later printing. Gilt-decorated papercovered boards with gilt-stamped mustard cloth spine. Very good with modest soiling and scuffing, hinges cracked, owner's decorative bookplate. Whistler's details of his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin, who in an 1877 published review of Whistler's painting "Nocturne..... More

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