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1955IYC133890Melbourne London Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd 1955. 1st UK. h/b. Very good 1st edition unclipped d/j some chipping and bumping in protective sleeve black clothbound boards gilt spine titling slightly faded text block firm pages crisp and unmarked. 12mo 190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5"". Gore Vidal's ""Messiah"" is a chilling exploration of faith manipulation and the seductive power of belief. This dystopian novel delves into a future consumed by a new religion centered on the glorification of suicide. Through sharp satire Vidal examines the nature of cults and the dangers of blind devotion. A controversial and thought-provoking work ""Messiah"" remains a relevant commentary on the human condition. Its unflinching portrayal of religious fanaticism and the search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world continues to resonate. This edition of ""Messiah"" presents Vidal's unsettling vision carefully prepared for a new readership. Explore the unsettling depths of this classic work of religious satire and dystopian fiction a powerful reminder of the fragility of reason and the allure of the extreme. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
0586037268.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1954536537New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Ink notation on the front free endpaper else about fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing short tears and shallow chips. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
195417773New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1st PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. E.P. Dutton hardcover
195409423MESSIAH Dutton 1954 first edition near fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Dutton unknown
1954021289New York: E. P. Dutton 1954 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Gore Vidal directly on the title page. Light toning to endpapers upper edge of cloth spine is frayed else book in fine condition; dust jacket with some tanning to spine moderate rubbing moderate edge-wear else fine. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1954111-5412New York: Dutton 1954. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in yellow cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt and black; the front panel in gilt. Octavo. 254pps. Stated First Edition as required. There is a touch of wear to the cloth at the head of the spine and a couple of tips are gently rubbed. Otherwise clean tight square and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket glossy in a new mylar sleeve has a loss of much of the top 1" of the spine panel does not affect any lettering; there is more modest rubbing wear and chipping to the extremities; the original price 3.50 is intact. A nice copy of this early Vidal title.<br><br><font color=#003366><b> "Brain washing has become a recognized weapon; will soul washing come next Will all the isms besetting humanity drive it into the arms of the new Messiah Can television advertising copy and high pressure publicity by exploiting man's inward religious urge lead him to anything even death in preference to life Can this happen here Can it happen now These are some of the basic elements which make 'Messiah' by Gore Vidal an absorbing frightening and stimulating experience. This extraordinarily imaginative novel has a story of motion and action told in simple economic words; it satirizes men and techniques ridiculous in themselves yet sinister in their intent and singleness of purpose; it gives a horribly real and vivid picture of a world that may come."<br><br></font></b> Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dutton Hardcover
1954006473New York: New York: Dutton 1954 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good some Light Wear. First Edition. New York: Dutton, 1954 Hardcover
1980012979Boston: Gregg Press 1980. Reprint Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed. A Very Good copy in green and red cloth lettered in gold. Tanning at the outer edges of the text block sound binding clean/unmarked within. No dust jacket. Signed by the author at the title page. <br/> <br/> Gregg Press hardcover
1998Q-0141180390Penguin Classics 1998-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
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
19543117667New York: Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED by Gore Vidal on title page. The author's own copy coming from his library in Ravello Italy. COA attesting to the authenticity laid-in. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 254pp. Hint of faint wear to jacket Splendid copy with excellent provenance. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dutton hardcover
1955VIDALGOR007459Heinemann London. 1955. First U.K. edition. octavo. 286 pages. A novel of religious dystopia.Gilt titles on spine a bit oxidised otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the edges. Heinemann, London. unknown
195447062New York:: E. P. Dutton. 1954. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with very slight soiling to the rear panel--except that the jacket has been trimmed and is approximately 1/8" shorter than the volume. . 8vo. E. P. Dutton,. hardcover
197725605SUHRKAMP PETER 1977. 1. softcover. PHANTASTISCHE BIBLIOTHEK SUHRKAMP, PETER paperback
8445075284.Gmass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
19773720099Barcelona.: Grijalbo. 1977. Hardcover. Sobrecubierta deslucida. Firma del anterior propietario. Good. 19 cm. 536 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección 'Edibolsillo'. Traducido del Inglés . Sobrecubierta deslucida. Firma del anterior propietario. ISBN: 9788425308994; 8425308992 Literatura: DS Inglés 2AB Grijalbo. hardcover
197421893Dorchester MA: Manifest Destiny Books 1974. Paperback. 90p. ownership name in ink on first page else very good first edition trade paperback in green pictorial wraps. Includes an interview with Gore Vidal Mitzel's "Patriarchy vs. "Pornography": some notes on myra b. and "Three Carols for Myra Breckinridge" by John Wieners. Manifest Destiny Books paperback
1968380814London: Anthony Blond 1968. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn with some loss and dust-dulled dust-wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 205 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; The author has allowed certain excisions to be made in the American text. Previous ed. Boston : Little Brown 1968. Subjects: Breckinridge Myra. Breckinridge Myra.Genre. Fiction. Lesbian & Gay. LGBT. London: Anthony Blond hardcover
GOR002142451Paperback. Very Good. paperback
198610516<p>Random House New York 1986. First Edition thus First Printing. Two complete novels published here together for the first time with a new preface by the author. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. One quarter black cloth with gilt lettering on spine over black paper-covered boards. Square with solid binding and sharp corners. Red mark and light soiling on page block. The interior is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $19.95 price clean and bright with minor edgewear and two short closed tears. Now protected in a clear mylar cover. Basis for the 1968 film <em>Myra Breckinridge </em>with Racquel Welch in the title role. Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.</p> Random House hardcover
1968509161Little Brown & Co 1968. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Vidal on half-title to 'Juli.' Gyula Visnyei AKA 'Juli Veee' is a Hungarian-American Soccer player of some renowned both as a member of the Hungarian National Team and later as an indoor soccer phenomenon in the 1980's after defecting to America. First edition 264pp. Black buckram gilt spine lettering black endpapers. Some light wear to covers edges are a bit toned owner name to flypaper otherwise sharp and sound. Dust jacket has rips to head of back cover spine and tail of back cover flaps are creased. Little, Brown & Co hardcover
9G-U2TX-0L7XPaperback. Fair. INSCRIBED by Gore Vidal ""For Gregg - who knows Myra as well as I - Gore"". Third printing. Jacket has average wear and tear. Book near VG with moderate wear pages yellowed with an occasional minor blemish binding firm. paperback
19681411734Boston: Little Brown and Company 1968. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 264 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with gold lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover price uncut "$5.95" has a crease to the top corner of the front flap and light shelving wear. Boards have light bumping to edges and light general shelving wear. Textblock has light stains to the front matter and light general shelving wear. Signed flat by Gore Vidal to title page. Shelved in Room F. 1411734. Special Collections - Upstairs. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
196821237171968. London: Anthony Blond. 1968. 8vo. Original black cloth spine lettered in gilt in the dust-jacket priced 35s. net to the front flap lettered in white and yellow; pp. 205 3; very slight spotting to upper and fore-edges jacket rubbed and nicked to spine tips and edges; a near-fine copy in a very good jacket; title-page signed by the author in black.An uncommon signed first UK edition first printing of Vidal's landmark novel is-sued with authorised excisions from the American text and carrying the author's sardonic note regarding his adaptation to the 'high moral climate that envelops the British Isles'.One of the most provocative and widely discussed novels of the 1960s and the author's own favourite among his works Myra Breckinridge is a flamboyant assault on the sexual and social orthodoxies of post-war America. Presented in the form of the diary of its transgender heroine - formerly Myron Breckinridge - the novel follows Myra's arrival in Hollywood where her project of social and sexual transformation unfolds amid the glamour artifice and kitsch of the film industry. Comic irreverent and subversive the novel antici-pated debates about gender and identity that would only later enter the cultural mainstream. Although the work was published uncut by Little Brown in the United States Vidal's London publisher Heinemann declined to issue it 'fearing that an association with the book would affect Heinemann's reputation in a way that would damage sales' Kaplan. Anthony Blond 'a smaller but less timid publisher' ibid. subsequently acquired the book on condition that Vidal 'would respond satisfactorily to pages of objections raised by its own lawyers some of which had to do with obscenity some with libel'. Vidal made the requisite alterations and cuts adding a characteristically tart note to the British edition: 'Wanting in every way to adapt to the high moral climate that envelops the British Isles the author has allowed certain excisions to be made in the American text.'The novel is dedicated to Christopher Isherwood who had dedicated A Single Man to Vidal four years earlier.Joshi 25.b.; Stanton p.11. See Kaplan Gore Vidal: A Biography 1999. hardcover
