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1979WN674101Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1979. Green leather with gilt lettering and elaborate decoratio AEG and silk marker present. Mint copy in the Franklin Library manner. Author. First Thus. Full Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. The Franklin Library Paperback books
1981WN674102Franklin Center PA: The Franklin Library 1981. Black full leather gilt lettering and decoration green spine label. AEG with silk marker. A beautiful mint copy in the best Franklin Library manner. Author. First Thus. Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Trade. The Franklin Library books
198152524San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1981. First Edition Thus. Limited Issue one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.81. Octavo 22.5cm; cream paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gitlt on spine and front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 1011-1262pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket. A collection of seven short stories some with homosexual themes first published by Zero Press in 1956 and reissued by the San Francisco-based Gay Sunshine Press. cf.YOUNG 2664 & 2669. Gay Sunshine Press unknown books
196527296Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit 1965. First edition. 24 x 30 cm.; Graphic novel with text in French English and German. One die-cut page one printed on gold paper. Spine a little darkened. <br/><br/> Les Éditions de Minuit unknown books
199855592Madrid: Manuel Abella Poblet y La Ley-Actualidad S.A. 1998. 33.5cm. 120p. vii color plates facs. ind. color pict. wrps. Manuel Abella Poblet y La Ley-Actualidad, S.A. unknown books
198751381New York: Random House 1987. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.34. Octavo 24.25cm; maroon cloth blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine and front cover; viii4864pp. Fine in a Fine slipcase still housed in the partially-opened publisher's shrinkwrap. Historical novel centered around the relationship between government and mass media in the creation of modern-day America set in the late 19th-early 20th century. Random House unknown books
1978WRCLIT29760New York: Random House 1978. Cloth and boards. Large octavo. First trade edition. Signed by the author on the title- page. Top edge a trifle dusty else fine in dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
19680728Boston: Little Brown and Co 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 264pp. Bound in black paper covered boards spine lettering gilt. Near fine in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a small chip to top edge. <br/><br/> Little, Brown and Co hardcover books
1979W145GV2Los Angeles CA: Sylvester & Orphanos 1979. Original white cloth with gilt titling on spine and gilt GV on upper board. The essay appeared first in Playboy Magazine. This copy is #77 of 300 copies signed by he author. There is very slight sunning of the spine but for the most part the cloth is vey white and unsoiled. The limitation page is at the back of the book. By Author. Flirst/ Limited. Cloth. Very Good/No D.j. 4to. Limited . Sylvester & Orphanos Hardcover books
197951384Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos 1979. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.89. Octavo 25cm; white canvas cloth with titling decorative rule and author's initials stamped in gilt red and blue on spine and covers; iv235pp. A Fine copy. Handsome edition of this essay which first appeared in the pages of Playboy. Sylvester & Orphanos unknown books
198520641Helskini: Eurographica 1985. First edition. Wrappers as new. One of 350 copies signed by the author. <br/><br/> Eurographica unknown books
1949WRCLIT37681New York: Dutton 1949. Cloth. First edition. With a small manuscript presentation note tipped-in at the half- title: "Jay from Gore." The recipient was poet/publisher James Laughlin. Spine lightly cocked but very good in faded rubbed edge- worn dust jacket with evidence of dampstaining near the toe of the spine and the lower part of the rear panel. A nice association. Dutton hardcover books
196780018Boston: Little Brown and Company 1967. First edition of the final volume in Vidal's Narratives of Empire his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal. Small name to the front free endpaper fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Sheridan Germann. Washington D.C. is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empirehis acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. "Washington D.C. may well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital" said The New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement deemed it "a prodigiously skilled and clever performance." Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1967WRCLIT32657Boston: Little Brown 1967. Cloth. First edition. Signed by Vidal on the title page. A couple of small spots to upper cover fore-edge soiled one corner bumped but a good copy in dust jacket with several internal tape repairs and general wear to the edges. Little, Brown hardcover books
1995Embry 135540Random House 1995. First edition first printing. Tiny ding to upper front board lower front corner lightly bumped else fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Random House, 1995. First edition, first printing. unknown books
195617709Madrid: Paytonato de la 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 8vo. 2113pp. Red cloth gilt spine title patterned endpapers. A fine copy. Appendix. Illustrated including a photograph of Galdos' piano and one of his harmonium. In Spanish. Paytonato de la hardcover books
19621337464Boston: Little Brown and Company 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 300 pages; VG/VG-; full binding of sky blue cloth; spine black with white and blue lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; wear to head and tail of dust jacket spine; price uncut '$575'; very mild staining to fore edges; signed flat by Vidal at title page; pages clean; shelved Case 10. 1337464. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1954015223E.P. Dutton 1954. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Edition.$3.50 on Flap. Scarce In This Condition. E.P. Dutton Hardcover books
199621195ENew York: Da Capo 1996. Revised & Expanded Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Joseph McBride to Gore Vidal: “For Gore Vidal best wishes always Joe McBride April 30 1996.†From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. The book is totally rewritten and illustrated with a number of photographs published here for the first time. Fine copy in printed wrappers. Da Capo unknown books
198221017ENew York: Knopf 1982. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The story of the many struggles to form the Screen Writers Guild as told through the voices of the writers directors actors producers and political figures on both sides of the battle including Dorothy Parker Ring Lardner Jr. Budd Schulberg Charles Brackett Jack Warner Lillian Hellman Ronald Reagan Darryl Zanuck Orson Welles Sen. Joe McCarthy and more. With a certificate of authenticity from the distributor of the Gore Vidal library. Knopf unknown books
1979161605Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1979. Signed Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Clean tight unread copy. Pristine. Signed on a front free end paper tissue-guarded. Grey leather with elaborate gilt decoration all around. Four raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with matching satin place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket as issued. 524 pp. with archival images. Includes a message from the author special to this edition. A biography of Colonel Aaron Burr US vice-president who sadly is best remembered as the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. The Franklin Library hardcover books
198151380New York: Random House 1981. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 500 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.320. Octavo 24cm; brown cloth with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's original paper-covered slipcase; xiv5106pp.Fine in a very Near Fine slipcase with some gentle sunning around the opening. Historical novel set in Persian during the 6th-5th century BC. Random House unknown books
19799097ELos Angeles: Paramount 1979. First Edition. 134 page first draft screenplay. Xerox sheets bound with brads for an unproduced feature film version not the later TV miniseries based upon the best seller of the same name by Lucian Truscott. Near fine. Paramount unknown books
1987121326NY: Random House 1987. First edition limited issue of 250 numbered copies signed by Vidal on the limitation page. Copy #53. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Fine copy in a Fine slipcase. The fourth novel in Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Random House Hardcover books
195475784New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1954. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Cavism the religion of suicide conquers most of the world." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-1185. Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age pp. 190-6. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 106. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 195. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 253. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2488. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light edge wear mainly head and tail of spine panel and along portion of top edge of rear panel. #75784 E. P. Dutton & Co. unknown books