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19498465New York:: E.P. Dutton and Co. 1949. First edition. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy in a jacket which is faded on the spine as usual. 8vo. One of the scarcer Vidal titles. E.P. Dutton and Co., hardcover
1992Embry 170851Harvard U. Press 1992. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed dust jacket in mylar cover. Harvard U. Press, 1992. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1992UVIDSCR00EMHarvard University Press 1992. Fine. Vidal Gore. Screening History. Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1992. 1st edition. 96pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: NF/NF. Dust Jacket Condition: . Harvard University Press hardcover books
199227498Cambridge MA: Harvard university 1992. First printing. 8vo pp. 96. Illustrated. Fine in little scuffed dj. Part biography part observations about American politics. The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the Hisory of American Civilization 1991. Harvard university unknown books
1992021383Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1992. xii 96 1p. b/w illus. dj. Harvard University Press unknown books
199235703Lonodn: Andre Deutsch 1992. Hardcover. x 96p. film stills photos very good first UK edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
19923000065Harvard University Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine. This is a superb copy of the First Printing from the library of Aida and David Herbert Donald . Aida Donald was Editor-in-chief of the Harvard University Press and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt . David Herbert Donald won two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of Charles Sumner and Thomas Wolfe and of course was a celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln . Vidal described David Herbert Donald's biography of Thomas Wolfe LOOK HOMEWARD as ' the finest biography ever written of an American literary figure " .These are The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures In The History Of American Civilization 1991 . Illustrated with photographs from the Vidal family . The dust jacket is protected with an archival cover . Harvard University Press hardcover
19921-0674795865Harvard University Press 1992. Hardcover. New. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. Harvard University 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
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
19926000HARVARD. CAMBRIDGE 1992. Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine in plain light blue printed wrappers. An uncommon advance. . HARVARD. CAMBRIDGE 1992 paperback
1931R118480Rome/ Paris, Desclée/ Picard 1931 346pp., 23cm., brochure originale, dans la série "Bibliothèque de Saint-Louis des Français à Rome" volume IV, bon état, R118480
1962882681962 Paris, NRF, Gallimard (Collection "L'Histoire Fabuleuse"), 1962, in 8° broché, 214 pages ; couverture illustrée.
1975297161ª Ed.- Madrid: Ed. Mirasierra 1975.- 254 p. 1 h.: Profusión de ilustraciones fotográficas en negro; 4º 242 x 175 cm.; Finamente encuadernado en Media piel valenciana en tonos marrones lomo dorado tejuelo cabeza tintada en granate conserva las cubiertas originales.- RARO. Excelente estado. TAUROMAQUIA Libro en español Ed. Mirasierra hardcover
1985175266Dargaud Dargaud, 1985. In-4 relié plein cartonnage éditeur. Collection Portraits souvenirs. Très bon état
