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1963141395Delta. Collectible - Good. 1963. First Printing. Soft Cover. R15 . Delta paperback
197217781New York: Little Brown & Co 1972. 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 ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1st PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Little Brown & Co hardcover
1962010026Little Brown and Company 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1968. Copyright page states FIRST EDITION. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book near fine previous owner's writing on front free end-paper in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
nosku2089the hardcover Little First Edition from 1962. Other than a front cardholder flyleaf ex libris both the cover and the book are in positively excellent condition. There are no rips tears etc. and the pages and binding are tight as a drumVery Good hardcover
19625455Boston: Little Brown & Co 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co hardcover
196617779New York: Grove Press 1966. 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 BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1st PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Grove Press hardcover
196615259New York: Grove Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 165 pages; Very minor handling to the dust jacket. Book includes both ROMULUS The Broadway Adaptation by Vidal and ROMULUS THE GREAT by Duerrenmatt. Otherwise well taken care of. . Grove Press hardcover
1966001450New York: Grove Press Inc 1966. A beautiful copy. Fine condition in bright shiny Fine Dust Jacket with only a trace of soil on the white parts. Protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. No chips. No tears. No creases. No foxing. No fading. Fresh and crisp probably never read. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Clean square tight and unmarked. "First Printing" is so stated on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "At Mr. Vidal's suggestion Duerrenmatt's ROMULUS THE GREAT is given in translation from the original German by Gerhard Nellhaus for the reader who wishes to make his own judgment concerning the merits of the two plays.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped 6.00. Illus. by Kuhlman Roy jacket design. 8vo. xv 165pp. Grove Press, Inc Hardcover
196612000ROMULUS THE BROADWAY ADAPTATION along with ROMULUS THE GREAT by Friedrich Duerrenmatt Grove Press 1966 first edition just about fine in like dust-wrapper save for some horizontal creases to the lamination of the dust-wrapper. Grove Press unknown
1966028346New York: Grove Press 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight carefully read copy. This copy has some light pagedge soil else fine. This copy includes a bookplate signed by Vidal laid in. Edition #GP-343. There is a crease on the rear panel of the jacket in the laminate that looks like it probably happened during the publishing process. Grove Press Hardcover
1966VIDALGOR001896Grove Press New York. 1966. First edition. Octavo. pp xviii 165.Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ''Clive from Gore Vidal''. The recipient is Clive Hirschhorn who for thirty years was the theatre critic of the Sunday Express.Fine in fine dustwrapper. Grove Press, New York. unknown
19661411325New York: Grove Press 1966. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xv 165 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. White spine with black and orange titling. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover price uncut "$6.00" has general shelving wear. Boards and textblock have light general shelving wear. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room F. 1411325. Special Collections - Upstairs. Grove Press hardcover
19921401508Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1992. Hardcover. Octavo x 96 pages. In Good plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white and red print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price clipped. Boards quarter bound with red cloth to spine and black paper to boards.Text block has light spotting to edges. Illustrated: b&w plates photographs. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401508. FP New Rockville Stock. Harvard University Press hardcover
19929146Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. Second Edition. Hardcover 96 pages. Very Good /Good . Signed on tipped in page bookplate by Gore Vidal. Second Edition. Cloth bound with once inch raised wraparound binding. Minor bumping to top outer spine. Light rubbing to top and bottom of boards. Light rubbing to front board. Light almost barely noticeable soiling to boards. Foxing and soiling to text block. Upper right corner of front inner flap clipped. Minor foxing and soiling to inner dust jacket. Scuffing and creasing to dust jacket. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992126011Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Valerie love Gore Vidal." The recipient Valerie Vidal was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association. Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. At age ten the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor. Yet it was movies about history albeit history as brought to life on the silver screen that he remembers most vividly from his youth. Movies such as Roman Scandals The Prince and the Pauper and Fire Over England in his words "opened for me that door to the past where I have spent so much of my life-long present." Author of Burr Lincoln and other best-selling novels chronicling our experience Vidal shows how history and fiction blend in the private and public worlds of his generation. In Screening History he intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington D.C. boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has Vidal--a scion of one of our oldest political families--revealed so much about his own life or written with such marvelous immediacy about the real and imagined forces that have shaped America in the twentieth century. We see Vidal witnessing history as his grandfather is sworn in for a fourth Senate term during the Depression; we see him making history as a young airman of ten flying a Hammond Y-1 under the watchful eye of his father FDR's Director of Aviation; and we journey back with him to America in the 1930s and 1940s to theaters with names like the Belasco and the Metropolitan where the history screened for the nation's moviegoers often turned reality into fantasy or into downright propaganda. Screening History is rich with anecdotes about Vidal's eminent family and shrewd insights about prominent figures known and observed. It captures the hold that movies have had on the American imagination and the mark they left on the mind of a youngster who grew up to become one of our best-known and most controversial literary figures. At times poignant often bitingly funny this is Gore Vidal at his best inscribing his views on the American political scene from FDR to George Bush and on issues from the writing of history to the inability of movies to set history straight. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992126912Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Gore Vidal For Kit my only stepmother all love." The recipient Katherine “Kit†Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency only six years older than Gore. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association. Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. At age ten the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor. Yet it was movies about history albeit history as brought to life on the silver screen that he remembers most vividly from his youth. Movies such as Roman Scandals The Prince and the Pauper and Fire Over England in his words "opened for me that door to the past where I have spent so much of my life-long present." Author of Burr Lincoln and other best-selling novels chronicling our experience Vidal shows how history and fiction blend in the private and public worlds of his generation. In Screening History he intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington D.C. boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has Vidal--a scion of one of our oldest political families--revealed so much about his own life or written with such marvelous immediacy about the real and imagined forces that have shaped America in the twentieth century. We see Vidal witnessing history as his grandfather is sworn in for a fourth Senate term during the Depression; we see him making history as a young airman of ten flying a Hammond Y-1 under the watchful eye of his father FDR's Director of Aviation; and we journey back with him to America in the 1930s and 1940s to theaters with names like the Belasco and the Metropolitan where the history screened for the nation's moviegoers often turned reality into fantasy or into downright propaganda. Screening History is rich with anecdotes about Vidal's eminent family and shrewd insights about prominent figures known and observed. It captures the hold that movies have had on the American imagination and the mark they left on the mind of a youngster who grew up to become one of our best-known and most controversial literary figures. At times poignant often bitingly funny this is Gore Vidal at his best inscribing his views on the American political scene from FDR to George Bush and on issues from the writing of history to the inability of movies to set history straight. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992Q-0674795865Harvard University Press 1992-09-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harvard University Press hardcover
1994Q-0674795873Harvard Univ Pr 1994-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harvard Univ Pr paperback
1992Q-0233988033Trafalgar Square 1992-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Trafalgar Square hardcover
19923114693Cambridge: Harvard. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0674795865 . First edition. SIGNED by Gore Vidal on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages . Harvard. hardcover
199220690Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 96 pages. Collection of essays on subject. One of the best books on film ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions particularly the British Edition which looks exactly like it. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Gore Vidal's "Screening History". Essays that discuss the influence of the movies on American history and vice versa with unexpected Vidalian results. This is film criticism-as-autobiography autobiography-as-film criticism in the unique seamless way that only Gore Vidal and no other regular film critic could possibly pull off. "Uses the movies of his youth as the key to an examination of his past. Young Gore's first confrontation with the reality of death occurred in his viewing of a poignant scene from 'The Prince and the Pauper' 1937 . He is aware that films and other images from the media can be used to manipulate or define an event for its audience and he realizes that the image often becomes the reality of that event" Library Journal . Characterized by wit insight and penetrating brilliance this is a nostalgic valentine to the movies from America's greatest man-of-letters who was once a Hollywood screenwriter himself "Ben-Hur" being the most celebrated "Caligula" being the most controversial very publicly disowned by him. Vidal's unsurpassed genius as an aphorist makes him our Montaigne the greatest essayist America has ever produced. It also leads us to take his effortless one-liners at face value when the whole point of the aphorism is to read between the lines. "A narcissist is anyone better-looking than you" Gore Vidal . Gore Vidal died on July 31 2012 at the age of 86 the last of the great American public intellectual/writers of our time. We live in the Age of Mediocrity where nearly everyone is a critic/blogger/pundit mouthing timid politically correct opinions. Pundits are retail thinkers that is they are not real thinkers. Someday we will realize what we have irretrievably lost. An absolute "must-have" title for Gore Vidal collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Gore Vidal. It is signed directly on the page itself not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean crisp and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws are subsequent printings or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Recipient of the National Book Award's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 for "Distinguished Contribution To American Letters". One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. SEE ALSO OTHER GORE VIDAL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG. ISBN 0674795865. Harvard University Press hardcover
1992Gore Vidal3 60U.S.A.: Harvard University Press 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. FIRST. A fine first edition in dj.STAMPED FROM THE LIBRARY OF GORE VIDAL. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Harvard University Press Hardcover
49116Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 24 x 17cm pp.96; 1. Publisher's black paper boards over a red paper spine. Pictorial dust-jacket shows image of Vidal in a movie theatre titles in red and white. Signed by Vidal actor Cliff Robertson and one other. With two newspaper clippings contemporary obituaries of Robertson. Internally clean. Minor bumping to spine. Jacket is neat and presentable no fading only minor edgewear. Vidal's memoirs filtered through the gentle light of the celluloid screen. Signed by Vidal and also by Cliff Robertson Academy Award winner who played the Nixon-like Joe Cantwell in the film version of Gore's 'The Best Man'. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992 unknown
19923114384Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Leather Binding. First edition. Gore Vidal's own personal copy specially bound in leather. From his library in Ravello Italy. Fine with certificate of authenticity laid-in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Harvard University Press. hardcover
1992367400Cambride Massachusetts: Hard University press 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Slightly bowed with dampstaining on the top page edge and bumping on the board edges else very good in a very good dustwrapper with internal staining not visible externally and slight edgewear. Signed by the author. Hard University press hardcover
