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2015249969New York: Doubleday 2015. Hardcover. xii 464p. introduction conclusion postscript notes index illustrated with two glossy b&w photo sections red remainder dot bottom edge otherwise a near-fine first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. Doubleday hardcover 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
1958WRCLIT69864Culver City: MGM / Loews 1958. 8pp. Folio 43 x 31 cm. Pictorial self-wrappers. Black and white illustrations considerable amount of text very good. The studio pressbook produced for the purposes of advertising publicity and exploitation 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 the film 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
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
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
1950261194New York 1950. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal at Edgevales / XIX hh 25 / Nov 1 1950"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission" and stamped in blind. 1 vols. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal at Edgevales / XIX hh 25 / Nov 1 1950"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission" and stamped in blind. 1 vols. 7 x 5 inches. Early photograph ic portrait of the 25 yewar old Vidal. unknown books
194857819New York 1948. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Fine. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. In the Year of City and the Pillar. Very early photographic portrait of the 23-year-old Vidal taken in the year that the publication of his controversial novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR scandalized the mainstream press. unknown books
1948218953New York 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV-FF-1". Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. unknown books
1948218954New York 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Half length frontal portrait of the author in shirt and sweater. 1 vols. 35.2 x 23.5 cm. approx 13-7/8 x 9-1/4 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV-FF-1". Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Half length frontal portrait of the author in shirt and sweater. 1 vols. 35.2 x 23.5 cm. approx 13-7/8 x 9-1/4 inches. unknown books
199152045New York: Armchair Detective Library 1991. First Thus. First Thus originally published 1952-54. Octavo 23cm. 3 volumes each one of 26 lettered signed copies of a total edition of 126. Bound uniformly in maroon cloth titled in gilt on covers and spines; slipcases; publisher's clear acetate dustjackets. All three volumes Fine in the original clear acetate jackets and slipcases. <br/><br/>Attractive set of these signed limited reprints of works originally issued under Vida'ls pseudonym Edgar Box in the early- to mid-1950s featuring detective Edgar Cutler Sargeant. Includes:. Death in the Fifth Position 1991 - Letter "D" signed Gore Vidal<br/>Death Before Bedtime 1990 - Letter "I" signed Gore Vidal<br/>Death Likes It Hot 1990 - Letter "C" signed Edgar Box and Gore Vidal. Armchair Detective Library unknown books
1978004119New York: Random House Inc 1978. First Printing. Collects 3 mystery novels published pseudonymously by Vidal in the early 1950s "Death in the Fifth Position" "Death Before Bedtime" and "Death Likes It Hot" . Near Fine top edge lightly soiled in a Very Good Plus dustjacket 2 small closed edge tears and small chips at head of spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Random House Inc Hardcover books
195027841New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1950. FIRST EDITION. Page edges slightly foxed. A near fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket . <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton & Company unknown books
195803517London: Heinemann 1958. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Some light foxing to pages. Otherwise near fine in dust jacket. <br/><br/> Heinemann hardcover books
195230407New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1952. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by Vidal on flyleaf in the year of publication: "___ from Edgar Box date illegible 1952." Fine book in near fine dust jacket with some minor edgewear and a short closed tear at bottom of front panel . Nice copy of the first Edgar Box mystery. <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1987Embry 196419The Franklin Library 1987. First edition signed by the author. Fine. Full tan leather decoratively gilt. Part of the "Signed First Edition" series. The Franklin Library, 1987. First edition, signed by the author. hardcover books
194729584New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1947. FIRST EDITION. Some faint spotting to endpapers and page edges. Else a fine copy in a beautiful crisp dust jacket with a few tiny nicks at spine ends. Particularly nice copy of Vidal's second book. <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton & Company unknown books
2003Embry 165644Yale U. Press 2003. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Yale U. Press, 2003. First edition, first printing. unknown books
197091915NY:: Modern Library. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Modern Library number 395. A novel. Stated first edition thus. Remainder stamp on front free endpaper else near fine in a very good light shelf wear and aging dust jacket. ; 503 pages . Modern Library, hardcover books
196429261Boston: Little Brown and Company 1964. FIRST EDITION. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Vidal on a tipped-in leaf. Issued as part of Kroch & Brentano's First Edition Circle with their bookmark laid in.Fine in bright fresh dust jacket with one tiny tear at head of spine and some creasing to rear flap. Burgess 99. <br/><br/>< Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1978Embry 151726The Franklin Library 1978. First edition first printing. Fine. Full red leather decoratively gilt. The Franklin Library, 1978. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1984290646Franklin Center.: Franklin Library. 1984. 1st Edition. Full blue leather raised bands gilt decorations all edges gilt marbled endpapers ribbon marker. . Near fine light spotting to edges tight and unread no dust jacket as issued. 24x16 cm . Signed by the author on the second endpaper. weight: 2.7 lb. Franklin Library. hardcover books
1992Embry 107306Random House 1992. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Random House, 1992. First edition. unknown books
1977Embry 196768Random House 1977. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Random House, 1977. First edition, first printing. unknown books
