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]

New York: Meredith Press, 1968. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #46762

New York: Meredith Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in cream pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [4],213pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket and board margins, jacket rather dust-soiled with unsightly glue residue to upper panel from removed price sticker, paper scar to front pastedown, corners nudged; About Very Good overall. Signed by the author on title page.

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: $650.00