For the avid reader, history (of art) and real Edmund de Waal - fan,
a like new, signed, 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Edmund de Waal
Letters to Camondo
Chatto & Windus / Penguin, London / UK, 2021
"63 rue de Monceau, Paris
Dear friend,
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well.
Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's
forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of anti-semitism. Camondo
created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private
collection of French eighteenth-century art for his son to inherit. But
when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a memorial and,
on the Count's death, was bequeathed to France. The Musée
Nissim de Camondo has remained unchanged since 1936. Edmund de Waal
explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers
to the family story. In a haunting series of letters addressed to the
Count, he tells us what happened next." (penguin.co.uk)
"Edmund de Waal is an artist whose porcelain is exhibited in museums and
galleries around the world. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber
Eyes, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Costa Biography Award and in
2015 he was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction by Yale
University. The White Road, a journey into the history of porcelain, was
published in 2015. He lives in London with his family.
www.edmunddewaal.com" (penguin.co.uk)