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National Portrait Gallery, 2000. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. Enjoyable biography of Wilde and those of his closest friends. From great public success to tragedy and isolation. No dust jacket was issued. Smaller format.

Oxford University Press, 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. "No one was better qualified than Mr. Carritt to introduce students to that most perplexing and most fascinating of philosophical problems--what is beauty."" [Review - Times (London) Literary Supplement] Oxford 334 pages; 74 entries by prominent philosophers. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING.

University Press of Hawaii, 1972. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. "These essays are based on ideas and activities and intellectual adjustments in various places, particularly Mexico, France, mainland United States, and Hawaii -- seventy-nine essays of infinite variety, on art, literature, history, poliitics, philosophy, all done in a style as rich in image and perception as his painting."" [Preface, p. xi] Books are Fine in a Fine slipcase. Volume 1 - Collected Essays by Jean Charlot; Volume 2 - Mexican Art. This is a review copy.

Knopf, NY , 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "John Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears... But [his] paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters... [The] battle between an elderly romantic and the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilization becomes something ribald, poignant, and ineffably joyful." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.

Bloomsbury Press, NY, Berlin, London, Sydney, 2012. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Master historian Peter Clarke…finds a fresh perspective on one of the most written-about figures in history. When Churchill received the Nobel Prize in 1953, it was not for his role as a world leader, but for literature… Churchill was a gifted and successful writer long before he was a politician, publishing a stream of books and articles over the coursee of his life... Clarke traces Churchill's literary career and unfolds the making of the magisterial work that occupied him on and off for a quarter century: his four-volume 'a History of the English-Speaking Peoples'...long before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his rhetoric, and his leadership. This was the work that defined the 'special relationship' between Britain and America." [Dust Jacket] 1ST US EDITION

Luxor Press, London, Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Fine. Written in 1749. It was a huge success. The publisher's preface contains a brief biography of Cleland and a brief accounting of the dismissal of a NY lawsuit to have the book banned for obscenity in 1963.

Oxford University, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/ Fine. "The Oxford Book of Spy Stories' offers a panorama of the best spy stories which have forever fixed the concept of espionage in the popular imagination. In twenty-nine tales of political intrigue, wartime heroism, and peacetime scheming, we see the spy at work and at rest, sometimes the romantic savior of a nation's secret, more often an embittered loner, wracked with disillusion and uncertainty. The stories - by such famous authors as Ambrose Bierce, W. Somerset Maugham, Frank O'Connor, Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, Graham Greene, and Edward D. Hochrange..." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.

Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, No date. Hardcover. Fine/ Fine Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. "Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English Folklore, a highly skilled archer and swordsman. Although such behaviour was was not part of his original character, since the beginning of the 19th century he has been known for robbing the rich and giving to the poor, assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest." [Pub. Info] Scribner's reissued classic. Nearly a facsimile edition except the illustrations are taken from N. C. Wyeth's original canvases in the collection of the NY Public Library. There is a protective mylar cover.