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New York: Random House, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xx, 553. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Index.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (xii), 404. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Index. Ayer (1910-89) was an English philosopher who from his position at Oxford University and much exposure on radio and television had an important impact on British society. He was also, late in life, President of the British Humanist Association and the Homosexual Reform Society.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp viii, 632. Illustrated: (24) pp. of plates. Notes. Chronology. Checklist. Index.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Staples rusted, pamphlet annotated in ink. Else very fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp xiv, 346. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. References. Checklist. Index. Includes, laid in, the "Order of Service, Dedication of Memorial Tablet to Field Marshal The Earl Alexander of Tunis" (19 November 1972, Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks). 4 leaves stapled.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 258. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Sources and Notes. Index.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/frayed and torn. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xii, 148. Illustrated: (8) pp. plates. Checklist. Indexes.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xx, 716. Illustrated. Genealogical table. Appendices. Notes. Index

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2004. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. (xlii), 434, (iv). Illustrated. Chronology. Appendices. Sources. Index.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xviii, 590. Illustrated. Index. Anthony Blunt might have died renowned for his writings on art and for the many years he was head of the Courtauld Institute. But his reputation was ruined when it came to light, in a sensational revelation in 1979, that he had been active in a ring of Communist spies in the 1930s and '40s. This book is the most recent to attempt to understand his life and why he did what he did.

New York: The Free Press, 1999. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Else fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 646. Illustrated: (16) pp. plates. Notes and sources. Checklist. Index.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name crossed out on first free end-paper. Else fine copy/fine. 4to. Cloth. Pp. 272. Illustrated. Signed by the author on title-page.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. viii, 488. Illus. Bibliographical Note. Index.

New York: Random House, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 422. Illustrated. Index.

New York: Random House, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. viii, 490, (xiv). Appendix. Source Notes. Cumulative Index.

New York: Random House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 548. Illustrated. Index.

New York: Talk Miramax Books, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. The author was a schoolboy (at Eton) when he began working on this life of a complex and not altogether likeable man. He has produced a most interesting and detailed biography based on hitherto unseen letters and manuscripts.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Pp x, 374. Illustrated: (24) pp. of plates. Notes. Checklist. Index. The author was a schoolboy (at Eton) when he began working on this life of a complex and not altogether likeable man. He has produced a most interesting and detailed biography based on hitherto unseen letters and manuscripts.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 524, (viii). Appendices. Index.

Winston-Salem: The Auburncrest Library, 1946. First edition. Wraps. Covers a bit faded, stained and torn. Else very good copy. 64 pp. stapled into wrappers. Printed by John Wesley Clay.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xxii, 370. Illustrated. Notes. Index.