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197426730New York: Random House 1974. Hardcover. 244p. very good first edition stated Random House number line runs 9246753 which was an unusual variant on their system yet still ends in 2 in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Young 3934. Sequel to "Myra Breckinridge Random House hardcover books
1974008011Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Westminster Maryland U.S.A.: Random House Inc 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. NY: Random House 1974. Copyright page states "First Edition." SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book fine in fine dust jacket. DJ flap price reads "$6.95.". Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc hardcover books
1974Embry 172793Random House 1974. First edition first printing. Edges very slightly sunned else fine in fine faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1974115176New York: Random House 1974. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small sticker to the front endpaper jacket lightly toned. Random House unknown books
1974297114New York: Random House 1974. First. hardcover. fine/fine. black cloth d.w. N.Y.: Random House 1974. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Autographed copy with a remainder mark on the bottom edge.<br/><br/> Random House unknown books
1974184072Random House 1974-08-12. Hardcover. Very Good. 1974 First Edition. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Dust jacket shows minor discoloration creasing and wear but is now wrapped in a protective mylar cover. HB HS Random House hardcover books
1974710601NY: Random House. 1974. Very Good in Good chipped DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Random House hardcover books
1974710602NY: Random House. 1974. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Random House hardcover books
19749416JNew York: Radnom House 1974. First Edition. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Fresh copy. Radnom House unknown books
196898977Boston: Little Brown & Company 1968. First edition of this satirical novel by written in the form of a diary. Octavo black cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal. Name to the half-title page near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Photo courtesy of the Hotel Sahara. A very nice example. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s" the book's major themes are feminism transsexuality American expressions of machismo and patriarchy and deviant sexual practices. Harold Bloom cites Myra Breckinridge as a canonical work in his book The Western Canon. Made into the 1970 film directed by Michael Sarne and featured Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner Mae West as Leticia Van Allen Farrah Fawcett Rex Reed Roger Herren and Roger C. Carmel. Tom Selleck made his film debut in a small role as one of Leticia's "studs". Little, Brown, & Company hardcover 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
19680728Boston: Little Brown and Co 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 264pp. Bound in black paper covered boards spine lettering gilt. Near fine in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a small chip to top edge. <br/><br/> Little, Brown and Co hardcover books
196830094Boston: Little Brown 1968. First Edition. 8vo pp. 264. Ex library with bookplate. Pocket removed. VG in dj. Little, Brown unknown books
190053064Paris: Publisher not identified 1900. First edition. 4to. 28 cm. x 19 cm 102 pp. portrait frontispiece with tissue guard illustrations in text 10 plates with tissue guards 1 of these in color. Original printed wrappers. Neat ownership signature of a member of the jury of classe 5 on the blank reverse of the half-title page. Fine as new. A history of photography and processes which includes two chapters by Léon Vidal - one is a history of photogravure and the other on color photography. Details several other photomechanical processes and their inventors. Illustrations include those by Robert Demachy and by Puyo. <br/><br/>There are several issues of this report three of which vary only in size; a fourth a later issue has a slightly different wording to the title and is dated 1903. Étienne-Jules Marey was the president of the committee.<br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 3704. <br/><br/> Publisher not identified unknown books
1876108169Color photograph 9 1/4 x 12â€. Paris: Ateliers de Reproductions Artistiques 1876. Color photograph 9 1/4 x 12†mounted with contemporary mat framing the photo in an oval window with gilt title information printed in red to mat board. Very good. § “Leon Vidal 1833-1906 is not well known today but during the latter half of the nineteenth century was heavily involved with public photographic display instruction in photography promotion of photography and the development of photographically linked printing processes in France.†Hannavy p. 1448. Ateliers de Reproductions Artistiques unknown books
195451542New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones David Koresh and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Some mild fading along the extremities of the boards with a small nick to the spine head. The dust jacket is moderately shelfworn with a closed tear to the rear panel and a bit of occasional shallow chipping; otherwise very good. <br/><br/> E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1980105622Boston: Gregg Press 1980. Octavo cloth. Later edition first printing of the Gregg Press edition. Text offset from that of the 1979 Ballantine Books edition. New introduction by Elizabeth A. Lynn. "Cavism the religion of suicide conquers most of the world." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-1185. Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age pp. 190-6. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 106. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 195. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 253. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2488. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #105622 Gregg Press unknown books
1954015223E.P. Dutton 1954. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Edition.$3.50 on Flap. Scarce In This Condition. E.P. Dutton Hardcover books
195416407New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. good /good . 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket heavily rubbed and edgeworn including a small tear with loss at front panel near spine. Rear panel suffers dampstains. Interior clean and bright. About very good. <br/><br/>A mid-career novel from Vidal a satire on religion in America. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1965123433New York: Ballantine Books 1965. First Ballantine printing. Softcover. A revised edition of this early novel. A clean close to near fine copy in wrappers. Ballantine Books unknown books
195475784New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1954. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Cavism the religion of suicide conquers most of the world." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-1185. Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age pp. 190-6. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 106. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 195. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 253. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2488. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light edge wear mainly head and tail of spine panel and along portion of top edge of rear panel. #75784 E. P. Dutton & Co. unknown books
1954113175New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1954. Hardcover. 254p. very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj slightly worn at spine ends with one small chip. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
1955102975London: William Heinemann 1955. Hardcover. 286p. very good first UK edition black cloth gilt titles rubbed and dull unclipped dj lightly worn foredge slightly foxed. Dystopic fantasia concerning the rise of a charismatic prophet in 1950s California. William Heinemann hardcover books
19547610JNew York: Dutton 1954. First Edition. Some abrasion to front and rear paper covered boards from tape removal else very good in an especially bright attractive dust jacket with the most minute hint of wear. Dutton hardcover books
1977190664New York: Random House 1977. Hardcover. viii 285p. minor repair on f.e.p. first British edition dj. Random House hardcover books
