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19929146Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. Second Edition. Hardcover 96 pages. Very Good /Good . Signed on tipped in page bookplate by Gore Vidal. Second Edition. Cloth bound with once inch raised wraparound binding. Minor bumping to top outer spine. Light rubbing to top and bottom of boards. Light rubbing to front board. Light almost barely noticeable soiling to boards. Foxing and soiling to text block. Upper right corner of front inner flap clipped. Minor foxing and soiling to inner dust jacket. Scuffing and creasing to dust jacket. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992126011Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Valerie love Gore Vidal." The recipient Valerie Vidal was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association. Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. At age ten the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor. Yet it was movies about history albeit history as brought to life on the silver screen that he remembers most vividly from his youth. Movies such as Roman Scandals The Prince and the Pauper and Fire Over England in his words "opened for me that door to the past where I have spent so much of my life-long present." Author of Burr Lincoln and other best-selling novels chronicling our experience Vidal shows how history and fiction blend in the private and public worlds of his generation. In Screening History he intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington D.C. boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has Vidal--a scion of one of our oldest political families--revealed so much about his own life or written with such marvelous immediacy about the real and imagined forces that have shaped America in the twentieth century. We see Vidal witnessing history as his grandfather is sworn in for a fourth Senate term during the Depression; we see him making history as a young airman of ten flying a Hammond Y-1 under the watchful eye of his father FDR's Director of Aviation; and we journey back with him to America in the 1930s and 1940s to theaters with names like the Belasco and the Metropolitan where the history screened for the nation's moviegoers often turned reality into fantasy or into downright propaganda. Screening History is rich with anecdotes about Vidal's eminent family and shrewd insights about prominent figures known and observed. It captures the hold that movies have had on the American imagination and the mark they left on the mind of a youngster who grew up to become one of our best-known and most controversial literary figures. At times poignant often bitingly funny this is Gore Vidal at his best inscribing his views on the American political scene from FDR to George Bush and on issues from the writing of history to the inability of movies to set history straight. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992126912Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Gore Vidal For Kit my only stepmother all love." The recipient Katherine “Kit†Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency only six years older than Gore. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association. Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. At age ten the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor. Yet it was movies about history albeit history as brought to life on the silver screen that he remembers most vividly from his youth. Movies such as Roman Scandals The Prince and the Pauper and Fire Over England in his words "opened for me that door to the past where I have spent so much of my life-long present." Author of Burr Lincoln and other best-selling novels chronicling our experience Vidal shows how history and fiction blend in the private and public worlds of his generation. In Screening History he intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington D.C. boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has Vidal--a scion of one of our oldest political families--revealed so much about his own life or written with such marvelous immediacy about the real and imagined forces that have shaped America in the twentieth century. We see Vidal witnessing history as his grandfather is sworn in for a fourth Senate term during the Depression; we see him making history as a young airman of ten flying a Hammond Y-1 under the watchful eye of his father FDR's Director of Aviation; and we journey back with him to America in the 1930s and 1940s to theaters with names like the Belasco and the Metropolitan where the history screened for the nation's moviegoers often turned reality into fantasy or into downright propaganda. Screening History is rich with anecdotes about Vidal's eminent family and shrewd insights about prominent figures known and observed. It captures the hold that movies have had on the American imagination and the mark they left on the mind of a youngster who grew up to become one of our best-known and most controversial literary figures. At times poignant often bitingly funny this is Gore Vidal at his best inscribing his views on the American political scene from FDR to George Bush and on issues from the writing of history to the inability of movies to set history straight. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992Q-0674795865Harvard University Press 1992-09-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harvard University Press hardcover
1994Q-0674795873Harvard Univ Pr 1994-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harvard Univ Pr paperback
1992Q-0233988033Trafalgar Square 1992-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Trafalgar Square hardcover
19923114693Cambridge: Harvard. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0674795865 . First edition. SIGNED by Gore Vidal on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages . Harvard. hardcover
199220690Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 96 pages. Collection of essays on subject. One of the best books on film ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions particularly the British Edition which looks exactly like it. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Gore Vidal's "Screening History". Essays that discuss the influence of the movies on American history and vice versa with unexpected Vidalian results. This is film criticism-as-autobiography autobiography-as-film criticism in the unique seamless way that only Gore Vidal and no other regular film critic could possibly pull off. "Uses the movies of his youth as the key to an examination of his past. Young Gore's first confrontation with the reality of death occurred in his viewing of a poignant scene from 'The Prince and the Pauper' 1937 . He is aware that films and other images from the media can be used to manipulate or define an event for its audience and he realizes that the image often becomes the reality of that event" Library Journal . Characterized by wit insight and penetrating brilliance this is a nostalgic valentine to the movies from America's greatest man-of-letters who was once a Hollywood screenwriter himself "Ben-Hur" being the most celebrated "Caligula" being the most controversial very publicly disowned by him. Vidal's unsurpassed genius as an aphorist makes him our Montaigne the greatest essayist America has ever produced. It also leads us to take his effortless one-liners at face value when the whole point of the aphorism is to read between the lines. "A narcissist is anyone better-looking than you" Gore Vidal . Gore Vidal died on July 31 2012 at the age of 86 the last of the great American public intellectual/writers of our time. We live in the Age of Mediocrity where nearly everyone is a critic/blogger/pundit mouthing timid politically correct opinions. Pundits are retail thinkers that is they are not real thinkers. Someday we will realize what we have irretrievably lost. An absolute "must-have" title for Gore Vidal collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Gore Vidal. It is signed directly on the page itself not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean crisp and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws are subsequent printings or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Recipient of the National Book Award's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 for "Distinguished Contribution To American Letters". One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. SEE ALSO OTHER GORE VIDAL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG. ISBN 0674795865. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992Gore Vidal3 60U.S.A.: Harvard University Press 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. FIRST. A fine first edition in dj.STAMPED FROM THE LIBRARY OF GORE VIDAL. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Harvard University Press Hardcover
49116Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 24 x 17cm pp.96; 1. Publisher's black paper boards over a red paper spine. Pictorial dust-jacket shows image of Vidal in a movie theatre titles in red and white. Signed by Vidal actor Cliff Robertson and one other. With two newspaper clippings contemporary obituaries of Robertson. Internally clean. Minor bumping to spine. Jacket is neat and presentable no fading only minor edgewear. Vidal's memoirs filtered through the gentle light of the celluloid screen. Signed by Vidal and also by Cliff Robertson Academy Award winner who played the Nixon-like Joe Cantwell in the film version of Gore's 'The Best Man'. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992 unknown
19923114384Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Leather Binding. First edition. Gore Vidal's own personal copy specially bound in leather. From his library in Ravello Italy. Fine with certificate of authenticity laid-in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Harvard University Press. hardcover
1992367400Cambride Massachusetts: Hard University press 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Slightly bowed with dampstaining on the top page edge and bumping on the board edges else very good in a very good dustwrapper with internal staining not visible externally and slight edgewear. Signed by the author. Hard University press hardcover
19926000HARVARD. CAMBRIDGE 1992. Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine in plain light blue printed wrappers. An uncommon advance. . HARVARD. CAMBRIDGE 1992 paperback
1996TK252262Andre Deutsch London 1996. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Inscribed 'from Billy the Kid's ultimate classman' and signed in full by Gore Vidal. The first UK edition 1st printing originally published in the US in 1949. 8vo in blue faux cloth gilt lettering to spine. 253pp __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy merest hint of tanning to top edge of page block in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy. . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Andre Deutsch, London hardcover
0233989714.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19498465New York:: E.P. Dutton and Co. 1949. First edition. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy in a jacket which is faded on the spine as usual. 8vo. One of the scarcer Vidal titles. E.P. Dutton and Co., hardcover
2009Q-0307388689Vintage 2009-06-16. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
1979503562Sylvester and Orphanos 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Inscribed by Vidal to his publisher and photographer Stathis Orphanos on the limitation page d. Dec. 8 1979. 8vo 23pp. Bound in a somewhat ironic red white and blue theme with white cloth and red and blue borders around gilt stamped monogram. Some faint toning to extremities FINE otherwise. Presentation copy from an edition limited to 330 300 numbered 26 lettered 4 named. The lettered volumes alone were bound in leather. Without slipcase or dust jacket as issued. Letterpress printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press the first S&O collaboration with Dahlstrom. Vidal was the first of many connections S&O would make through Stathis's photography. After being introduced by their mutual friend Christopher Isherwood a publishing project was hatched during their first photo sesion at Vidal's home in Hollywood Hills in 1978. Sylvester and Orphanos hardcover
1979503561Sylvester and Orphanos 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Signed by Vidal on the limitation page. 8vo 23pp. Black Morocco leather stamped in gilt title page ruled in blue and red. Offsetting to endpapers where they overlap the leather turn-ins FINE otherwise. Copy 'F' of an edition limited to 330 300 numbered 26 lettered 4 named. The lettered volumes alone were bound in leather. Without slipcase or dust jacket as issued. Letterpress printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press the first S&O collaboration with Dahlstrom. Sylvester and Orphanos hardcover
1979503563Sylvester and Orphanos 1979. Hardcover. FINE. Inscribed by Vidal to his publisher Ralph Sylvester on the limitation page d. Dec. 8 1979. 8vo 23pp. Bound in a somewhat ironic red white and blue theme with white cloth and red and blue borders around gilt stamped monogram. Some faint toning to extremities FINE otherwise. Presentation copy from an edition limited to 330 300 numbered 26 lettered 4 named. The lettered volumes alone were bound in leather. Without slipcase or dust jacket as issued. Letterpress printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press the first S&O collaboration with Dahlstrom. Sylvester and Orphanos hardcover
1979503995Sylvester and Orphanos 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. SIGNED NUMBERED COPY. Signed by Vidal on the limitation page. 8vo 23pp. White cloth stamped in blue and red. Offsetting to endpapers where they overlap the leather turn-ins FINE otherwise. Copy 'F' of an edition limited to 330 300 numbered 26 lettered 4 named. The lettered volumes alone were bound in leather. Without slipcase or dust jacket as issued. Letterpress printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press the first S&O collaboration with Dahlstrom. Sylvester and Orphanos hardcover
1979131132674Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos 1979. Hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. SIGNED first edition. Copy #49 of 330. Fine lacking slipcase. Sylvester & Orphanos hardcover
1979004212Sylvester & Orphanos 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Signed by Authors. 1st Printing SIGNED! NUMBERED COPY! Very Nice Copy! Copy 114 of 330 copies! Very little wear! No dust jacket as issued. Please see our feedback! SG2 Sylvester & Orphanos hardcover
1999023027San Francisco: Cleis Press 1999 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Gore Vidal directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine as new condition. Cleis Press hardcover
8000920Handsome full-face and shoulder black and white photo of a middle aged Mr. Vidal. Signed in the upper left corner -- good contrast. Signed. First Edition. Very Good /No Dust Jacket. 8" X 10". unknown
