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DESCRIPTION: Turquoise grey cloth with decorative thick double banded border with intertwined rings. Gilt titles to front and spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to pushed corners, edges and creased spine ends. Toned spine cloth with lightly rubbed boards. Tightly bound with lightly toned intact endpapers. Prev owners name to ffep - see provenance. New York bookseller sticker to lower edge of rear paste down. Lightly toned unmarked pages. Toned text block edges DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 453, 4 pages of adverts. Size: 8vo 19.5cm by 13cm. PROVENANCE: Elisabeth Cook. "Elisabeth Cook ( - 1967)Daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook. Married Colin Leiter Campbell and subsequently Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. , son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt, in 1938. Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Bt. (1939 - 2019). Son of Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. and Elisabeth Cook. Married Charlotte Walter, daughter of Roderick Walter in 1971 and later married Teresa Lorraine Aphrodite de Chair, daughter of Somerset Struben de Chair and Margaret Patricia Field-Hart, in 1984. Named Charles Mansfield Clarke at birth he changed his name to Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke in 1962. Educated at Eton, Christ Church, Sorbonne and Graduate Business School, New York University. He succeeded as the 6th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge in 1973. Offices held: Vice-president of the London branch of Bankers Trust Company of New York, editor and founder of The Baronets Journal, Associate director of the Swiss Bank Corporation London and chairman of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Through his grandmother, Elfrida Roosevelt (Lady Clarke, wife of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, Bt. CBE) he was related to U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was his first cousin, three times removed. He was also the second cousin, three times removed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Humphrey Orme Clarke, 5th Bt. (1906 - 1949). Son of Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Bt. and Elfrida Roosevelt. Married, Frances Mary Powys Sketchley, daughter of Major Frederick Powys Sketchley, in 1931 (divorced in 1936). Married, Elisabeth Cook, daughter of Dr. William Alexander Cook, in 1938. Married Constance Elizabeth Gibbs, daughter of Herbert Gray Gibbs, 1947 (divorced in 1953). Educated at Eton and Christ Church. Served with the British Embassy to Washington between 1941 and 1944 and the Foreign Office between 1944 and 1946. Succeeded as the 5th Baronet Clarke, of Dunham Lodge 1949. ". AUTHOR: George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of mile Zola His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moores work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist. BOOK RESUME: Celibates is a novel of three characters: Mildred Lawson, John Norton and Agnes Lahens. They have nothing in common other than an absolute love of themselves and an inability to sympathize with others. In that vein, it constitutes a striking image of our own modern day self-absorbed society.
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