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Princeton University Press [Bollingen Series], 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. Historical Topics: Art for Use, Art Collecting, Other Byproducts of Art, Art Collecting Revives, the Role of Cosimo, the Lesson of Lorenzo etc. There is a protective mylar cover. Larger format. [Please check for shipping cost on multi-volume sets and larger format books.]

The Bobs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, Hardcover. Fine /General wear to extremities; large chip with paper loss at bottom right corner of cover; small tear at top left of front cover. Chipping with paper loss at top and botrtom of spine, small tear also at top; small tear at top of back cover.. "This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semi-legendary characters - with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen... In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." [Introduction by Henry Steele Commager] Illustrated. There is a protective mylar cover. Pulitzer Prize for Biography (for 'The Raven')

Henry Holt, NY, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The author presents the first complete and intimate biography of the controversial, mercurial British poet, scholar, and author of 'I, Claudius', 'The White Goddess', and 'Goodbye to All That." [Pub. Info] 524 pages. 1ST US 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.

Knopf , 1986. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST TRADE EDITION, 2ND PRINTING.