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1947400287NY: E.P. Dutton 1947. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with tape repairs. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vidal's second novel a work with some gay aspects but one in which the author felt he played things a bit too safely. "Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city." Book is tight and clean. There is some light soil foxing to the dust jacket. Record # 400287 E.P. Dutton hardcover
1998022030The Modern Library 1998. Book. About Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. A very attractive copy of the First Modern Library printing. Signed by Vidal on a front blank. The Modern Library Hardcover
1992007497New York: Random House 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Gore Vidal signed on a bookplate on the half-title page. Gilt lettering on black covers in a white pictorial dust jacket. 8vo 225pp. <br/> <br/> Random House hardcover
196233321New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc 1962. Very Good. New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1962. First Edition. Slim octavo 19.5cm; publisher's yellow staple bound card wrappers; 79pp.; photographic frontispiece. Some dust-soil to wrappers spine edges toned else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by Vidal laid in.<br /> <br /> Comic play adapted from Friedrich Duerrenmatt's German play "Romulus der Grosse "1950. Copyright page notes that the sound effect record no. 4021 "Chickens cackling" is available for purchase from the Dramatists Play Service for $2.95. Dramatists Play Service Inc unknown
2000FLAHIVE-2098New York: Doubleday 2000 First printing with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price $27.50 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Doubleday hardcover
199849105Cheltenham:: Edward Elgar. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1858989493 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Edward Elgar, hardcover books
1943147785Buenos Aires: Editorial Viau S. R. Ltda 1943. Facsimile Reprint. Softcover. G Moderate edge wear and soiling to outer wraps; interior is crisp and clean. Tan paper wraps 117 pp. 24 color plates 4 fold-outs. Title on cover: Buenos Ayres and Monte Video in a series of Picturesque Illustrations Taken on the Spot. A facsimile reprint of the original book released in 1820 featuring these early 19th-century views from Argentina rendered by English painter Emeric Essex Vidal 1791-1861. Includes an introduction and a running narrative by the artist. The illustrations appear in color here; one presumes that in the 1820 edition they did not have the benefit of such technology. As such this book should be of interest to both art lovers and historians with an Argentinian focus. #1225 of 3470 copies. Editorial Viau S. R. Ltda paperback books
1956157168New York: Zero Press 1956. First. hardcover. very good/near fine. Seven Short Stories. Thin 8vo d.w. lightly toned. N.Y.: The Zero Press 1956. First Edition.<br/><br/> Zero Press unknown books
1987WN31809New York: Random House 1987. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. Front pastedown has a small ink stain otherwise book and jacket are in exceptional condition. A central title in Vidal's series of 7 works on American history. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Random House Hardcover books
1990121327NY: Random House 1990. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Faint beginning toning on the board cloth edges; dustjacket with short closed tear and few tiny wrinkles at the spine bottom edge and beginning toning on spine. Tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. The fifth novel in Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
1978107498Random House 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First trade edition so stated on the copyright page with complete row of numbers signed by Vidal on the half-title page fine in a fine dust jacket. Original price of $10 still on front flap of dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1978ABE-794418468Random House 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SIGNED FIRST EDITION of Gore Vidal's "Myron." NY: Random House 1978. Copyright page states "First Trade Edition." SIGNED by the author on the front free end page. Book near fine except for some fading at top of book cover on front spine and rear. In near fine dust jacket small tear at top of front little wear at top and bottom of spine. DJ flap price reads "$10.00. Random House hardcover books
19786242New York: Random House 1978 Stated first trade edition. Black cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt. Some foxing to foredge. A fine copy in dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1978110714New York: Random House 1978. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. Signed by Vidal. 1979 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-1184. Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 1070. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #110714 Random House unknown books
195451542New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones David Koresh and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Some mild fading along the extremities of the boards with a small nick to the spine head. The dust jacket is moderately shelfworn with a closed tear to the rear panel and a bit of occasional shallow chipping; otherwise very good. <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton hardcover books
196021979Boston: Little Brown & Co 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. Stated first edition. A 168 pp play by the author of The City and The Pillar. A handsome very good copy in about very good dustwrapper with original $3.50 price on the front flap. Somewhat uncommon. Includes photographs from the production. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
2000297180New York: Doubleday 2000. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Large 8vo d.w. New York: Doubleday 2000. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Autographed by Vidal on the title page.<br/><br/> Doubleday unknown books
200022511New York: Doubleday 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition in dustwrapper. The concluding novel in the author's celebrated American Empire series of books. SIGNED on the title page. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
195652964Helsinki: Eurographica 1956. First Edition. First Printing. Signed on title page by author. Octavo 20.5 cm; blue wrappers; 77pp.; dampstain to ffep and cover does not effect wrappers Very Good. Eurographica unknown books
195614394JNew York: Ballantine 1956. First Edition. Hardbound issue. Some tape marks offsetting to front end rear endpapers from an old plastic dust jacket cover else fine clean copy in a bright dust jacket with a very minor trace of wear. Eight complete one-hour dramas by television writers including Gore Vidal Visit to a Small Planet Rod Serling The Strike Paddy Chayefsky The Mother Horton Foote A Lady of Property Robert Alan Arthur J.P. Miller Tad Mosel and Reginald Rose Ballantine hardcover books
1970WRCLIT67901Nottingham UK: Lonsdale & Bartholomew 1970. Vintage pictorial double crown poster 20 x 30" in color. Folded as issued otherwise near fine. Original pictorial promotional poster for the UK release of the 1970 adaptation of Vidal's novel based on a screenplay by Michael Sarne and David Giler directed by Sarne and starring Mae West John Huston Raquel Welch Rex Reed and Farrah Fawcett among others. Carrying over the "X" rating from the US release the poster proclaims "Myra Breckinridge is all woman . or something!" and "The film they said could never be made is from the book they said could never be written!" Lonsdale & Bartholomew unknown books
1974008011Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Random House Inc 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. NY: Random House 1974. Copyright page states "First Edition." SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book fine in fine dust jacket. DJ flap price reads "$6.95.". Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc hardcover books
1992117517New Haven Connecticut: Yale University Press 1992. Hardcover. VG. Black cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; Clear mylar covering; 238 pp.; 185 color and bw plates and figures. Yale University Press hardcover books
2000126493San Juan Puerto Rico: Ediciones Alba 2000. Hardcover. VG. Dark blue cloth with color plate affixed to front cover; 227 pp.; 137 bw and color figures. Text in Spanish; A monograph of Puerto Rican painter Jose Campeche focusing particularly on paintings of four women: Dona Maria del Rosario de Quinones de Boguslausky Dona Maria Manuela Diez de Barrio de Martinez Dona Maria de los Dolores Martinez de Carvajal and Dona Ysabel Maria O'Daly de Goyena. Ediciones Alba hardcover books
1968002565Little Brown And Company 1968. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. First Printimg . Chips to dust jacket. The flaps of the dust jacket have beeb folded and show creases as a result. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover . Little, Brown, And Company hardcover