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1954372612NY: E. P. Dutton & Company 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a dust jacket that's unclipped $3.50 but has some edgewear. Stated First Edition. SIGNED BY VIDAL on title page dated "1991 LA". Record # 372612 E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
198546406New York: Summit Books / Antelope 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Summit Books in Association with Antelope 1985. First Edition. Small quarto 27cm; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 160pp.; color photographs throughout. Moderate wear and soil to jacket and board margins spine a bit cocked corners bumped; overall About Very Good internally clean and sound. Signed by Gore Vidal on half title page. Summit Books / Antelope unknown
195628787Boston: Little Brown and Company 1956. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1956. First Edition. Signed by Gore Vidal without inscription at title page. Octavo. 278 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black and orange boards. Unclipped dust jacket dampstained along top quarter of jacket; lightly chipped and creased along edges. Boards show light to moderate edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. Little, Brown and Company unknown
74289E-006. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by E. P. Dutton & Company New York 1946. 222 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities small pieces and closed tears present to the edges of the DJ. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. His first book a story set in World War II about murder & adventure off the Aleutian Islands. Vidal masterfully captures the atmosphere of military life and the psychological impact of conflict on young soldiers. Thrust into a remote and unforgiving environment these men confront not only the enemy but also the isolating power of nature itself. "Williwaw" stands as a testament to the enduring human spirit exploring themes of resilience camaraderie and the search for meaning during wartime.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
19501393961New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 255 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Red spine aged brown with black and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.00" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the corners a stain on the front flap and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have light bumping along the tail fore corners mild wear along the head and tail edges and stains on the rear board and spine. Textblock has a pen inscription on the front end-page moderate age-toning along the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges light foxing along the edges and a loose binding. Wrapped in a second dust jacket beneath the first. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1393961. Special Collections. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover
1956000670New York: The Zero Press. DJ in archival cover chip sunned. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956. The Zero Press hardcover
1952529858New York: E.P. Dutton 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Jacket art by Lester Kohs. Lightly toned pages in first half of book binding slightly cocked very good in a moderately rubbed about very good dust jacket with several chips and tears and interior tape repairs at the flap folds. The first of three mysteries featuring New York City public relations manager Peter Cutler Sargeant II. The other two being Death Before Bedtime and Death Likes It Hot. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1987313200NY: RANDOM HOUSE. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394561236 . SIGNED by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a very close to fine dj. Slight discoloration at spine on dj. . RANDOM HOUSE. hardcover
19902208110Random House 1990. limited. hardcover. fine. SIGNED limited edition 1/200. Comes in publisher's slipcase still in shrinkwrap fine condition. Random House unknown
19641411495Boston: Little Brown and Company 1964. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo viii 503 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. In full navy cloth binding with gilt titling to spine. Jacket is black with white and tan lettering wrapped in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows moderate shelf wear with small chips and tears on the top and bottom edges. Faint crease on front flap. Price uncut: "J $6.95". Moderate scuffing to mylar cover. Volume shows very light shelf wear to boards with some rubbing wear along edges. Text block shows light age toning and scuffing along edges. Interior clean. Signed flat in blue ink by Gore Vidal in the top corner of the front free endpaper: "Gore Vidal". Shelved in Room F. 1411495. Special Collections - Upstairs. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
1984177044New York: Random House 1984. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. One of 350 specially bound copies. A thick historical novel about the 16th U.S. President. A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase that has some slight sunning to the rear panel. Signed by Vidal on the limitation page. Random House unknown
19541393967New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 254 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.50" has moderate shelving wear small open tears along the fore corners spine head and tail edges and rear cover moderate chipping along the fore edges and joints and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have light bumping along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges and mild age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock has pencil marks on the rear pastedown moderate age-toning along the end-pages pastedowns and edges mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the head edge. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1393967. Special Collections. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover
1968000668Boston: Little Brown & Company. DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1968. Little, Brown, & Company hardcover
19691393937Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 255 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$5.95" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the corners and spine head and tail edges and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and mild age-toning along the extremities. Textblock is lightly splitting to gutter from the half-title page to page 14 has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the head edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1393937. Special Collections. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
2009350929New York: Abrams 2009. reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w and color photographs throughout. INSCRIBED BY VIDAL on title page. Otherwise clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 350929 Abrams hardcover
1948A52798New York NY: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. . 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the half title page. The book is in Good condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book covers have lightish bumping to the spine ends and corners. There is a bit of a light bow to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a wrinkled tear to the top edge of the title page. The front endpaper has been clipped at the top corner and there is a thin strip of black on the front pastedown page where a previous old dust jacket cover sat. The rear pastedown page has two thin strips of black from the previous dust jacket cover. The price clipped dust jacket bottom front flap corner has been clipped has been "protectively enhanced" by a previous owner -- basically the former owner used clear tape on both the front side and the reverse at the corners spine joints and edges. There is a longish tear to the bottom rear flap joint along with several other small edge tears nicks and chips. The dust jacket also has some general wear and tear and wrinkling from use. "As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His style of narration evoked the time and place of his stories and delineated his characters' psychology. His third novel The City and the Pillar 1948 about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship offended conservative book reviewers' literary political and moral sensibilities." from Wikipedia; 314p. pages; Pictured 4/6/26; Signed by Author . E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover
19521393971New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 375 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Black and red spine with black and white aged tan lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.50" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the fore corners and spine and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities mild age-toning along the head and tail edges and light fraying along the front fore edge. Textblock is lightly splitting to gutter form page 30-62 and 95-126 has stains on pages 95 and 96 adhesive stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges stains on the fore edges light foxing along the head edge and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1393971. Special Collections. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover
194970610NY: Dutton 1949. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Rear board corners lightly bumped and faint small dampstain on foreedge; dustjacket with edgewear at spine ends corners and front panel bottom edge and toned red ink on the spine. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Vidal's fourth novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dutton Hardcover
1970313161BOSTON: LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 0434829587 . SIGNED by Gore Vidal on title page. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket. With light traces of rubbing & mild shelf wear at edges. . LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. hardcover
1996302240San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. 3 photo illustrations. 4to navy blue cloth d.w. San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited Edition. Fine.<br/> <br/> Fiftieth anniversary edition of his first book. No. 208 of 250 signed copies. Prospectus laid in.<br/> <br/> Arion Press unknown
199671501San Francisco: The Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 30 x 22 cm. Quarto. 119pp. Dark blue cloth with paper spine label in illustrated dust jacket. This fiftieth anniversary edition limited to 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies this being copy 175 signed by the author. Photo frontispiece. Printed on German mouldmade Schiller paper. The Arion Press hardcover
199623992San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Previous owners small exlibris label to front free endpaper else in fine jacket/like new. Dark blue cloth pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp. illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. <br/><br/>A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The photographic illustrations depict Vidal in uniform in 1946 frontispiece; the second shows Vidal a year earlier as a Warrant Officer at the helm of FS 35; the third picture is from 1944 showing Vidal as a serviceman in Anchorage Alaska. Printed letterpress on German mouldmade paper. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author this #64. Arion Press hardcover
199622813San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket/like new. Dark blue cloth pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp. illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. Publication prospectus laid in. <br/><br/>A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The photographic illustrations depict Vidal in uniform in 1946 frontispiece; the second shows Vidal a year earlier as a Warrant Officer at the helm of FS 35; the third picture is from 1944 showing Vidal as a serviceman in Anchorage Alaska. Printed letterpress on German mouldmade paper. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author this #201. Arion Press hardcover
196821193ENew York: Twayne Publishers 1968. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. This is the very first study of Vidal’s work and includes this from Ray White’s opening paragraph of his Acknowledgments: “First I thank Gore Vidal for answering my many questions giving me access to his personal papers and letting me quote from unpublished material and published works for which he owns copyright.†Near fine copy with a hint of use in a used dust jacket with a 6†tear to the rear spine fold and across the spine some faint rubbing and dust soiling and small chips. A critical survey of the life and works of Gore Vidal whose published works available at the time of this book include the novels The City and the Pillar The Judgment of Paris Messiah Julian Washington D.C.; the plays Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays The Best Man: A Play About Politics and more. Twayne Publishers unknown
2007G9568007245I4N00FS Editorial 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. FS Editorial hardcover
