Celebration - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition. Unread Fine condition with only a minute scape to gilded pages separating it from As New, SIGNED by author Mary Lee Settle; Set in 1969 London, this is the story of the love affair of Theresa Cerutti, a widowed American anthropologist, and Ewen McLeod, a Scottish geologist who meet in the British Museum. The novel also tells the intertwining tales of the couple's diverse cast of friends -- from a gay British aristocrat to a six-foot-tall Dinka Jesuit - all of whom have had close (truncated) encounters with death and all of whom choose to celebrate lifeThis outstanding book is bound in genuine leather with raised bands and features gilded sewn-in pages and a satin marker. Simply superb quality; Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 355, [1] pages; 14787; Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 18825)