AFFECTIONATELY YOURS, GEORGE WASHINGTON A Self-Portrait in Letters of Friendship by Fleming, Thomas J. , editor - 1967

NY: W. W. Norton. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding is almost as new. Very minor edge soil/foxing. Very minor endpaper foxing. Contents are almost as new, with no writing or other entries on the text. Moderate wear, minor soil, on the price-cut DJ. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION, 1967. 9-1/2" Tall, 280pp. Medium blue cloth, bright gold spine lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY /BELLES LETTRES . "One historian called George Washington the man in the white marble toga, a remote, forbidding figure. This book is a major step toward revivifying the warm and fascinating human being - the Washington who sufferd the pangs of adolescent passion, fell in love with his best friend's wife, married his 'friend' Martha Custis, poured out his political and military woes to his beloved brother Jack in the dark days of 1776, and in the depths of Valley Forge sat down at his desk to write a chatty letter to an old friend in England. All these incidents are here in Washington's own words. " ... Index. .