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199849105Cheltenham:: Edward Elgar. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1858989493 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Edward Elgar, hardcover books
1958150861N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph of Paul Newman and screenwriter Gore Vidal on the set of the 1958 film.<br/><br/>Based on the 1955 teleplay "The Death of Billy the Kid" written by Gore Vidal for the NBC television series "The Pilco-Goodyear Television Playhouse" which also starred Paul Newman in the lead. Gore Vidal was reportedly displeased with Penn's adaptation and in 1989 it was remade from his original script as the TNT television film "Billy the Kid" directed by William Graham and starring Val Kilmer and Duncan Regehr.<br/><br/>Arthur Penn's directorial debut.<br/><br/>William Bonney aka Billy the Kid avenges the murder of a cattle boss friend John Tunstall by the local sheriff in the Lincoln County War and endangers his friends and the territorial amnesty leading to his former friend now sheriff Pat Garrett John Dehner setting out to capture him. <br/><br/>Although faring poorly at the US box office at the time of its release it was praised by French critics and is now considered a bold example of an early Revisionist Western.<br/><br/>Set in the 1870s New Mexico territory. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Scorcese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. N.p. unknown books
1981239478New York: That New Magazine 1981. Magazine. 64p. 8.5x11 inches articles reviews news ads cartoons photos very good magazine in stapled red wraps. "Goodbye to Sally Gearhart" John Preston takes a hard look at the feminist position on porn. Profile of Harvey Fierstein. Gore Vidal on Jews and Gays. The Late Lotte Lenya on Gay Rights. Androgenous chic. That New Magazine unknown books
1953006167New York: E.P. Dutton 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated of this mystery novel written by Gore Vidal under the pseudonym Edgar Box. The second of only three books he wrote thus. Very good in very good price intact dustwrapper. Some small chips and creases to jacket but unfaded with rich ruby red spine colors. Nicer than usually found. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
194963150Habana: Ministerio de Educacion Direccion de Cultura 1949. Paperback. Good. 225p. Wrapper. 20cm. Text and wrapper moderately browned. Spanish text. Cuadernos de cultura; octava serie 5. <br/><br/> Ministerio de Educacion, Direccion de Cultura paperback books
19295910Paris: Société des Editions Militaires 1929. First Edition one of 50 copies on vélin teinté total edition of 515. 19 of 20 hand-colored plates after watercolors by Leroux. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers with a few tears and slight chipping normal for a large book bound thus otherwise a near fine copy. In cloth sliding case. Leroux Pierre Albert. First Edition one of 50 copies on vélin teinté total edition of 515. 19 of 20 hand-colored plates after watercolors by Leroux. 1 vols. 4to. Superbly illustrated history of the role artillery in the French army throughout the ages with magnificent hand-colored plates. Société des Editions Militaires unknown books
1976144976Spain: Profilmes 1976. Collection of 25 vintage borderless photographs for the international release of the 1976 Spanish exploitation film. Also included in the original plain brown paper envelope and a glossy full color two sided flyer for the film featuring a synopsis in English French and Spanish. <br/><br/>Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of a friend only to uncover a possible supernatural explanation in a young woman the villagers claim is a witch. <br/><br/>Photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Flyer 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Profilmes unknown books
1976144977Spain: Profilmes 1976. Original glossy full color two sided advertising flyer for international release of the 1976 film featuring a synopsis in English French and Spanish. <br/><br/>Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of a friend only to uncover a possible supernatural explanation in a young woman the villagers claim is a witch. <br/><br/>8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Profilmes unknown books
1970142749Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. <br/><br/>One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood and a prescient one in terms of trans interests which at the time received almost no attention from major studios. Myra Breckinridge undergoes gender confirmation surgery and upon completion promptly moves to Hollywood to enroll in her uncle Buck's acting academy where she attempts to claim her half of her uncle's inheritance. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine save for the first and last few leaves which have been worn to around Very Good condition bound with a gold brad. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown 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
1957144269France: Cinedis 1957. Collection of 61 original black-and-white single weight photographs from the 1957 French-Italian film released in the US as "On Foot On Horse and On Wheels" 1958. Starring actors Noel-Noel and Grey are in nearly every image with a few featuring Sophie Daumier. All with numerical annotations in holograph pencil housed in an original French Crumiere photo paper box. <br/><br/>Leon Martin's Noel-Noel daughter is engaged to the son of a wealthy businessman and he goes to the extreme to make a good first impression. Prolific Paul Misraki composed the music and a sequel was made by Jean Dreville with Noel-Noel reprising his role called "A pied a cheval et en Sputnik" 1958 "Sputnik" in the US.<br/><br/>5 photos 3.5 x 4.25 inches and 61 photos 5 x 7 inches all with small white borders at the foot. Photos and box Very Good plus photos with moderate curling and faint foxing and one split to the box lid. Cinedis unknown books
2009170254Zurich Switzerland: JRP Ringier 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran January 15 through February 21 2009 at Marc Jancou Contemporary and January 31 through March 7 2009 at Zach Feuer Gallery. Essay by Catherine Taft and with the text of a conversation between Lieberman and Jacques Vidal. Includes numerous color illustrations checklist and bibliography. A near fine copy in illustrated boads with some slight bumping to the corners. No dust jacket as issued. JRP Ringier unknown books
198152524San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press 1981. First Edition Thus. Limited Issue one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.81. Octavo 22.5cm; cream paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gitlt on spine and front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 1011-1262pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket. A collection of seven short stories some with homosexual themes first published by Zero Press in 1956 and reissued by the San Francisco-based Gay Sunshine Press. cf.YOUNG 2664 & 2669. Gay Sunshine Press unknown books
197554860San Francisco: Gay Sunshine 1975. Newspaper. 36p. folded tabloid newspaper illustrations poetry essays reviews news lightly-used and toned newsprint. Numerous articles on gay life in Mexico with bilingual poetry by Ernesto Banuelos Enriquez translated by Erskine Lane articles on Guatemala and Native American homosexuality an interview with Gore Vidal and a new poem by Allen Ginsberg on the rear wrap. Gay Sunshine unknown books
199721190EBoston: Godine 1997. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Preface by Kurt Vonnegut. Introduction by Trudy Butner Krisher. With a two-page section for Gore Vidal; one of Vidal on the Today Show with Barbara Walters in New York 1974 and the other of him in an informal setting in London 1972. Oversized. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a trace of edge wear. A collection of more than a hundred black & white photographic portraits of leading modern writers including Tennessee Williams Rex Stout Janet Flanner John Updike Anais Nin Joan Didion Thornton Wilder Edward Albee Vladimir Nabokov Pablo Neruda Toni Morrison James Baldwin Kurt Vonnegut and more. Godine unknown books
1950009598Dutton 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine copy in Like Jacket.Beautiful Gorgeous Copy of Author's Scarcest Book.First Edition Stated $2.75 on flap. Dutton Hardcover books
200721023ELanham MD: Scarecrow Press 2007. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Laid in is a type letter signed by Edward Kurdyla Vice President Publisher at Scarecrow Press on printed company stationery presenting this copy to Mr. Vidal dated July 11 2007. 346 pages. Fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Includes references to books and pamphlets short stories essays and reviews plays screenplays published letters manuscripts media adaptations works in translation works about Gore Vidal an index and biographical information. With a certificate of authenticity from the distributor of the Gore Vidal library. Scarecrow Press unknown books
1959144215Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on the set of the 1959 film. With holograph annotations in black ink and a press agency stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. Catherine Holly Elizabeth Taylor is being evaluated and coerced by her wealthy aunt Violet Venable Katharine Hepburn into receiving a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin while the three of them were on vacation in Europe the summer before. <br/><br/>Set in New Orleans and various locations in Spain. Shot on location in Spain and England. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1959144209Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly from the 1959 film. With holograph annotations in graphite on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. Catherine Holly Elizabeth Taylor is being evaluated and coerced by her wealthy aunt Violet Venable Katharine Hepburn into receiving a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin while the three of them were on vacation in Europe the summer before. <br/><br/>Set in New Orleans and various Locations in Spain. Shot on location in Spain and England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
200726231Amsterdam: BUTT 2007. Tiny tears at the spine ends and light fading to the extremities else fine in wrappers. First Edition. Issue 20 of the quarterly printed on pink paper that transformed not only gay but broader cultural aesthetics for a new generation. Amsterdam: BUTT unknown books
1966150179N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. With a stamp noting the film's title on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1965 book. A retelling of the World War II liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance and Free French Forces.<br/><br/>Set in Paris and Germany shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
198921136ENew York: Michael di Capua Books / Farrar Straus and Giroux 1989. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. 408 pages. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. with some minor edge wear. A compilation of material by Christopher Isherwood drawing on eight of his books spanning a period of forty-two years from 1938 to 1980. Michael di Capua Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1920205431Barcelona: LlibrerÃa Varia 1920. 18p 5.25x7.25 inches text in Catalan light wear stapled first edition booklet in spictorial wraps. Patriotic cover painting by Borrà s. Only two holdings located OCLC as of 5/2016. None in the USA. LlibrerÃa Varia unknown books
1960150322N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless black and white photograph of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward holding hands as they cross the street in Rome circa 1960s. With the stamps of PIP Photo and photographer Elio Sorci on the verso along with holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding cropping.<br/><br/>Vidal relocated to Italy in the 1960s where he lived for many years with his partner Howard Austen. <br/><br/>7.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1970152410N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film attributed to Gore Vidal. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. <br/><br/>Loosely based on Vidal's 1948 classic landmark novel "The City and the Pillar" one of the few books of the period which portrayed overt homosexuality as natural and without moral ramifications.<br/><br/>In 1970 and 1971 Variety International reported Franco Rossellini had been in discussion with Vidal to produce his screenplay adaptation of his 1948 novel with Vidal also slated to direct reiterated in William Hawes' 2008 book "Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: the Making Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film." According to Hawe's the production had not gotten off the ground because "funding proved to be insufficient even for a low-budget version."<br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 25 1970 with credits for author Gore Vidal. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
