George Washington, "too long gone unnoticed"

Mary Higgins Clark

Aspire to the Heavens: A Portrait of George Washington [alt. title Mount Vernon Love Story] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

New York: Meredith Press, 1968. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #12539

New York: Meredith Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in cream pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [4],213pp. General edge wear and wrinkling to jacket extremities, light soil, spine panel a shade sunned; overall a Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.

Prolific best-selling author's first book, a short historical novel of the life and deeds of George Washington grown "out of a conviction that the real Washington was a charmer who had too long gone unnoticed, too often been painted as a near saint" (rear jacket blurb). Reissued in 2002 as "Mount Vernon Love Story."

Price: $450.00