Celebration by MARY LEE SETTLE Illustrated by John Collier
SIGNED by MARY LEE SETTLE
LIMITED SIGNED FIRST Edition by The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society. Like new leather bound. Excellent cover, clean bright & unmarked interior. With Dust Jacket. Book measures approx. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25".
Leather bound. Blue leather, gilt titling and decoration on cover & spine, five raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Satin bookmark bound-in, marbled end papers. Printed on archival acid-neutral paper. Includes laid-in publisher's letter.
Celebration chronicles the love story of a widowed American anthropologist and a Scottish geologist as well as the intertwining tales of the couple's eccentric circle of friends, which include a homosexual English aristocrat, a gargantuan African Jesuit, an editor of pornographic literature, and an overzealous CIA agent. Despite the fact that these characters live in the most murderous of centuries and have all reckoned with death in some intimate fashion, they choose to celebrate life over death.