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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
200629504New York: Doubleday 2006. FIRST EDITION. Signed by Vidal on a tipped in leaf. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Doubleday 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
189126332Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1891. First edition. 12mo. xvi 127 pp. illustrations in text including one plate with a mounted color diagram of the visible color spectrum and a folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard. Quarter morocco and marbled boards gilt-title within raised bands on spine. Some pencilled underlining and marks and rubbing at the edges of the marbled paper else very good. Léon Vidal 1834-1906 was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires which he founded and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. An early and important text that furthered the attainment of a true three color photography through spectrology and orthocromatics the process by which photographs of colors are represented by their degree of intensity. <br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 7667. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars hardcover books
190028020Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1900. First edition. Paperback. Small 8vo. xvii 445 pp. 65 illustrations in text. New facsimile paper wrappers with fragments of original wrappers bound-in; first few leaves chipped at corners with no loss of text A good and unopened copy. Léon Vidal 1834-1906 was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires which he founded and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. A survey of various methods of photomechanical reproduction including formulary and methodology.<br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 8191. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars paperback 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
1958WRCLIT68605Sydney;: MGM 1958. Vintage color lithographed daybill poster 30 x 13.25" 76 x 34cm. Folded as issued a couple of short closed tears in left margin one penetrating slightly into the color background a few mild creases along left margin but a very good bright copy. A striking daybill poster for the Australian release of Jose Ferrer's film adaptation of Nicholas Halasz's book about the Dreyfus case based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal. This was only Vidal's second screenplay credit although his writing for television had been substantial to this date. Ferrer starred as well as directed in company with Anton Walbrook Viveca Lindfors Leo Genn Emlyn Williams and Herbert Lom. MGM unknown books
1957WRCLIT69198Culver City: MGM / Loews 1957. Original color half-sheet 22 x 28"; 56 x 71 cm. Formerly folded in quarters display tack holes in each corner some small nicks at folds filing annotations on verso but a very good bright example. A graphically striking half-sheet poster for the U.S. release of Jose Ferrer's film adaptation of Nicholas Halasz's book about the Dreyfus case based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal. This was only Vidal's second screenplay credit although his writing for television had been substantial to this date. Ferrer starred as well as directed in company with Anton Walbrook Viveca Lindfors Leo Genn Emlyn Williams and Herbert Lom. MGM / Loews unknown books
1957WRCLIT76367Culver City: MGM / Loews 1957. Eight 11 x 14" color pictorial lobby cards. A few small tack or staple holes from being displayed distributor's stamps and annotations on verso card 7 has a coffee spill on verso mirrored faintly on recto remaining cards very good to about fine. A complete set of the lobby cards issued to promote the U.S. release of Jose Ferrer's film adaptation of Nicholas Halasz's book about the Dreyfus case based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal. This was only Vidal's second screenplay credit although his writing for television had been substantial to this date. Ferrer starred as well as directed in company with Anton Walbrook Viveca Lindfors Leo Genn Emlyn Williams and Herbert Lom. MGM / Loews unknown books
1983WRCLIT75515Brittany 1983. iii83 leaves. Quarto A4. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in hald-lettered stiff wrappers. A couple of creases and finger smudges to wrappers otherwise very good or better. Denoted the "3rd Draft" of this screenplay based in part on Vidal's treatment of the subject in A SEARCH FOR THE KING 1950. Robert Dornheim is noted as the prospective director for the film. Dornheim and musician/actor/writer O'Brien had worked together on the 1983 television film DIGITAL DREAMS featuring bassist Bill Wyman. Among O'Brien's considerable list of accomplishments is THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW writer and actor. Evidently unproduced and not directly related to the 1983 Rice and Olivier musical of similar subject and title. unknown books
188626164Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1886. First edition. 12mo. 151 pp. engraved figures and charts. Half morocco and marbled boards gilt title within raised bands on spine t.e.g.; spine faded and light wear at tips. A very good and bright copy. This manual provides instructions for making negatives/positives for a variety of applications and includes: sensitometry intensifying and reducing photographs photomechanics enlarging etc.<br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 6573. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars hardcover books
189153056Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1891. First edition. 12mo. xvi 127 pp. frontis with tissue guard 14 illustrations in text folding diagram of Vogel's spectrographe with tissue guard and one plate with a mounted color chart of the visible color spectrum. Printed paper wrappers. A folded contemporary manuscript of six holograph pages concerned with the color spectrum orthochromatic photography etc. is laid-in. Front wrapper is creased with a short tear at the spine repaited with clear tape. Léon Vidal 1834-1906 was head of the Association of Musée des Photographies Documentaires which he founded and a professor of photography at the École des Arts Decoratifs. An early and important text that furthered the attainment of a true three color photography through spectrology and orthocromatics the process by which photographs of colors are represented by their degree of intensity. <br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 7667. <br/><br/> Gauthier-Villars unknown books
198754888NY: Random House 1987. First Random House edition second printing. 8vo pp. 486. Author's signature on blank. Dark blue cloth. Owner's embosed stamp on flyleaf and blank. A nice copy in little scuffed and faded dj. Random House unknown books
19849011562Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Privately printed and personally signed by the author for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Bound in publisher's original blue composition leather with the covers and spine stamped in gilt. Three raised bands on the spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. <br/><br/> Franklin Library hardcover books
39022Unpag. 4 pp. text and list 42 plates of color reproductions of historic maps and prints of views landmarks and events of the cities and towns of Provence some folding. Folio. Box portfolio box slightly water stained and corners worn. N.p. Editions Hier et Demain 1971. unknown books
195630614NY: The Zero Press 1956. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Text pages with beginning toning board bottom edges with slightest shelfwear; dustjacket corners and spine ends just touched Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Zero Press Hardcover books
19819066ENew York: Random House 1981. First Edition. One of an undetermined number of copies signed by Gore Vidal on a special page bound in by the publisher. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Random House unknown books
