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Random House, 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. Among the earliest, if not the first, English work described as a ""novel"". Written in 18 sections (Books) including Book I - Containing as Much of the Birth of the Foundling as Is Necessary or Proper to Acquaint the Reader with in the Beginning of This History, and ending with Book XVIII - Containing About Six Days. Illustrations by Lawrence Beal Smith. There is a slipcase in Very Good condition. This is a 1st thus edition. [Check for shipping cost on larger format books].

St. Martin's Press, NY, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The leisurely life of intellectual contemplation enjoyed by the Fellows of Sheepshanks College, Cambridge is shattered when the eminent Pryevian Librarian, Ernest Garmoyle, collapses and dies over his port at dinner. When arsenic is discovered in his drink, Inspector Bunce of the Cambridge police is called in. A tangled web of motives lurk beneath the academic surface. Bizarre characters and suspicious behaviour." [Pub. Info] 1ST US EDITION

Butterworth's, London, UK, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Published first by British father and son (both architects and architectural historians) this book has been, and is, the standard reference for concise/accurate descriptions of architecture throughout the ages. "...it is believed that a work in which architecture is treated as a result and record of civilization, will prove attractive to that increasing public which interests itself in artistic development." [Preface, 1896] Larger format. [Please check for shipping cost on multi-volume sets and larger format books.] There is a protective mylar cover. 19TH EDITION; 2ND PRINTING.

Doubleday & Company, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Concise biographies examine painters, wellsprings of their art, interplay of native tradition and European influence, more. 69 halftones. Bibliography."" [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. This is a 1st thus, 3rd printing.

Little Brown, NY, 1974. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. [This] dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of... Flexner's definitive four-volume biography 'George Washington,' (Pulitzer Prize citation)… has itself become an American classic. [it] explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure... 'a fallible human being made of flesh and blood and spirit... a great and good man.' The author... paints a portrait of... slave owner, brave leader, man of passion, reluctant politician, and fierce general... a brilliant counterpoint between... public and private lives... A challenging look at the man who has become as much a national symbol as the American flag." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover.

Crown, NY, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "A poetry anthology featuring a different poem for every day of the year, each one specifically tied to its date. The selections range from works by Shakespeare and Keats to those of T. S. Eliot and Sonia Sanchez." [Pub. Info] "The poems of far places are brought so into our lives, and we are reminded that the day is world-wide or world-round. More magical still is the way that poets of whatever century are made contemporaries of us and of each other, with Corbiere and Thomas More cheek by jowl, and Horace seeming as present-day as this year's Easter or the Fourth of July." [Pub. Info] [Superb collection. STATED 1ST EDITION.