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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
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
1986SONG0394553764Random House 1986-08-12. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 0.39x8.53x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Random House hardcover
19942850489Madrid.: Turner. 1994. Paperback. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 20 cm. 129 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Vidal Joaquín 1935-2002. Tauromaquia . Cubierta deslucida. ISBN: 8475061974 Corridas de toros. Tauromaquia.791.862 791.862 Turner. paperback
19943066706Madrid.: Turner. 1994. Paperback. Good. 20 cm. 129 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Vidal Joaquín 1935-2002. Tauromaquia . ISBN: 8475061974 Corridas de toros. Tauromaquia.791.862 791.862 Turner. paperback
1986Q-0345340205Ballantine Books 1986-07-12. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ballantine Books paperback
1996Q-0452275423Plume 1996-04-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Plume paperback
1979Q-0345278739Ballantine Books 1979-02-12. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ballantine Books paperback
1968Q-0218512937LITTLE BROWN 1968-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! LITTLE BROWN hardcover
1984Q-0345312201Ballantine Books 1984-11-12. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ballantine Books paperback
1989Q-0586200126Grafton 1989-01-26. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grafton paperback
1982Q-0345306198Ballantine Books 1982-08-12. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ballantine Books paperback
197489463Gonzalo Vidal Tur 1974. paperback. Bueno. Alicante 1974. Gonzalo Vidal Tur. Rústica. 690 pp. 25x17. Dedicado por el autor. Gonzalo Vidal Tur paperback
1973Q-0394480244Random House 1973-10-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Random House hardcover
1998Q-0679602933Modern Library 1998-10-05. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Modern Library hardcover
1977Q-0394411285Random House 1977-03-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Random House hardcover
1998Q-0141180374Penguin Classics 1998-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1981Q-0394500156Random House 1981-02-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Random House hardcover
19922324323Haircare Ltd 1992. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN:0951955306 Haircare Ltd hardcover
1998Q-0349110654Abacus 1998-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Abacus paperback
1978Q-0394725166Vintage 1978-02-12. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
1968355490713230London: Cassell 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. A slightly foxed top edge and a neat name on the front free end-paper otherwise a VG copy in like D/W creased at the head of the spine slight flaking at the base of the spine and with a small triangular chip from the top right hand corner of the front cover. Uncommon Cassell hardcover
1994615836London: ANDRE Deutsch Limited 1994. Hardcover in very good condition unread. First edition revised and unexpurgated edition also with a preface by the author. Jacket unclipped. Clean and sound pages. CM. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. ANDRE Deutsch Limited Hardcover
1972Q-0394482107Random House 1972-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Random House hardcover
1983Q-0394713796Vintage Books 1983-03-12T00:00:01Z. paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage Books paperback
