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113247New York E.P. Dutton and Company Inc. 1948. . First edition first impression; 8vo; bookplate to front pastedown else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth gilt lettering to spine spine ends slightly bumped lettering a little dulled with the unclipped dust-jacket slightly rubbed and soiled a few small nicks and tears to extremities else very good.<br /> First edition of the author's third novel. <br /><br />A milestone in LGBT literature The City and the Pillar is significant for its sympathetic portrayal of a homosexual protagonist defying social norms post-World War II. It is also recognised as one of the definitive war-influenced gay novels being one of the few books of the time to deal directly with male homosexuality.<br /> New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1948. hardcover
19482305New York: E. P. Dutton 1948. Stated First Edition. 8vo. Black cloth. 314 pp. Fine/in good dust jacket with three deep chips along the top edge. See photo. E. P. Dutton unknown
194840305NY: Dutton. VG/VG. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. A very nice copy of the first edition minor edgewear to the DJ a little toning to the pages. An important novel in the history of gay literature. . Dutton hardcover
19481393923New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 314 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket. Orange and blue spine faded to gold with black and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.50" has mild shelving wear large open tears along the spine head and tail small open tears along the front head and tail edges and fore corners bending wear along the front tail edge and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges stains throughout and a dent along the spine head. Textblock has a large dark stain on the front pastedown moderate age-toning along the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1393923. Special Collections. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover
1994615836London: ANDRE Deutsch Limited 1994. Hardcover in very good condition unread. First edition revised and unexpurgated edition also with a preface by the author. Jacket unclipped. Clean and sound pages. CM. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. ANDRE Deutsch Limited Hardcover
1948509163Dutton 1948. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. First Printing. SIGNED on title and subsequently INSCRIBED by Gore Vidal on FFEP to his personal friends Stathis Orphanos and Ralph Sylvester: 'For Stathis and Ralph.' Stathis was a noted photographer and shot Vidal on multiple occasions including the portrait used on the cover of his memoir. Stathis and Ralph also operated the Los Angeles fine-press publishing firm 'Sylvester and Orphanos' which published Vidal's Sex is Politics. 314pp. Black buckram gilt spine lettering blindstamp to front cover. Some trivial toning to pages and endpapers otherwise very clean and sharp; Dust jacket has some light rubbing to extremities and a very small chip to head of spine. Vidal's third novel The City and the Pillar is recognized as the first post-war novel to portray an openly gay protagonist whose homosexuality is treated as natural and appropriate. The novel met with some scandal: in his autobiography Vidal notes that the New York Times refused an advertisement for the book and that for a period of six years following no major newspaper or periodical would review his work. He quotes an editor at Dutton as saying 'You will never be forgiven for this book. Twenty years from now you will still be attacked for it.' Vidal also notes private enthusiasm expressed by his LA friends and fellow Gay writers Christopher Isherwood Thomas Mann and Steven Spender. While Spender averred that the novel was essentially autobiographical Vidal denied it. Dutton hardcover
1948657239Dutton 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Signed by author on the title page. Stated 1948 First Edition. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. 314pp. Light foxing to upper page edges mild lean to spine rear inner hinge lightly tender yet binding solid light toning to endpapers interior text clean. Dust jacket mildly worn chipping to edges closed tears to lower rear and upper front 1/2' of loss at upper jacket spine end $3.50 price intact. Good copy in Good dust jacket. Dutton hardcover
196570626NY: E.P. Dutton 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised edition. Slight spine lean else a very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket. Inscribed and signed by Vidal on the half title page. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1948A52798New York NY: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. . 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the half title page. The book is in Good condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book covers have lightish bumping to the spine ends and corners. There is a bit of a light bow to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a wrinkled tear to the top edge of the title page. The front endpaper has been clipped at the top corner and there is a thin strip of black on the front pastedown page where a previous old dust jacket cover sat. The rear pastedown page has two thin strips of black from the previous dust jacket cover. The price clipped dust jacket bottom front flap corner has been clipped has been "protectively enhanced" by a previous owner -- basically the former owner used clear tape on both the front side and the reverse at the corners spine joints and edges. There is a longish tear to the bottom rear flap joint along with several other small edge tears nicks and chips. The dust jacket also has some general wear and tear and wrinkling from use. "As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His style of narration evoked the time and place of his stories and delineated his characters' psychology. His third novel The City and the Pillar 1948 about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship offended conservative book reviewers' literary political and moral sensibilities." from Wikipedia; 314p. pages; Pictured 4/6/26; Signed by Author . E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover
1995Q-0679436995Random House 1995-07-04. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Random House hardcover
19492222322244925The First UK printing published by John Lehmann London in 1949. The BOOK is in Very Good condition with some ghosting to the spine. The gilt decoration and titling to the spine has dulled slightly more-so the publisher's logo at the foot of the spine. Some toning to the text-block and outer page edges due to the quality of paper stock used. Free from inscriptions. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good condition with some fading of colouring to the lower spine portion. Mild edge-wear with a little loss at the upper spine and a few nicks. Mild rubbing and creasing in places to the edges. The B.Biro wrapper artwork looks very attractive in the removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed without dedication by the author to the title page. A very scarce early title from the acclaimed author. 'In 1948 Mr. Vidal published 'The City and the Pillar' which was dedicated to J. T. Jimmie Trimble. It is what would now be called a coming-out story about a handsome athletic young Virginia man who gradually discovers that he is homosexual. By today s standards it is tame and discreet but at the time it caused a scandal and was denounced as corrupt and pornographic. Mr. Vidal later claimed that the literary and critical establishment The New York Times especially had blacklisted him because of the book and he may have been right. He had such trouble getting subsequent novels reviewed that he turned to writing mysteries under the pseudonym Edgar Box and then for a time gave up novel-writing altogether. To make a living he concentrated on writing for television then for the stage and the movies NY Times August 12th 2012. Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. John Lehmann, London hardcover
1997Q-0349106576Time Warner Books Uk 1997-05-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Time Warner Books Uk paperback
2003Q-1400030374Vintage 2003-12-02. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Vintage paperback
0965319962.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
194950381London: John Lehmann 1949. First UK edition. Hardcover. very good -. Octavo. 270pp. Original brown cloth gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Spine a bit faded and dulled.<br /> <br /> Vidal's third novel which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character<br /> <br /> Vidal 1925-2012 in this novel used what he called a "flat gray naturalistic style." The novel became a sensation but received generally negative reviews. In 1974 he explained to The Paris Review that "Tactically if not aesthetically this was for a good reason. Up until then homosexuality in literature was always exotic…. I wanted to deal with an absolutely ordinary all-American lower-middle-class young man and his world. To show the dead-on “normality†of the homosexual experience. John Lehmann hardcover
1948SKU1038230E.P. Dutton 1948. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. E.P. Dutton and Company; New York 1948. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good black binding with blind stamped publishers emblem bottom front board and gilt lettering on spine binding sturdy and intact some handling/scuffing to boards mild crimping to spine edges some rubbing to board and spine edges discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers some age toning to pages some scattered foxing to text block edges spine buckram starting to separate from backing material in a Very Good some handling/scuff marks to panels bit of edge/corner wear with few small tears along edges spine fade couple of moisture stains top spine and partially on rear panel and verso Dust wrapper. A nice overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches 314pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1949954791949. First edition UK. John Lehmann London. 1949. Hardback rust cloth gilt type to spine. 270 pages. No dust-wrapper; spine sl. sunned page edges foxed. Flat-signed by author on title-page. hardcover
194819675New York: E.P. Dutton 1948. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/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. Vidal was blacklisted by the media after writing this novel. 1st PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. E.P. Dutton hardcover
19651111204Dutton. Good/Good. 1965. Hard Cover. S307 . Dutton hardcover
199443762London: Andre Deutsch 1994. Revised edition. hard cover with dust jacket. VG/G. Ex-library good book in very good unmarked dust jacket./Very Good. 22 cm. Andre Deutsch hardcover
194825087New York: E.P. Dutton 1948. First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a bright near fine dust jacket with two small chips to the crown but does not show the fading endemic to the spine panel. A very sharp example. Stylistically influenced by Hemingway this work "is distinguished by its honesty and lack of self-pity; the central figure is unexceptional in every respect but his sexual choices" Stringer 690. "One of the best novels of its kind. . . . It isnt sentimental and it is frank without trying to be sensational and shocking" Christopher Isherwood. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1948910724New York: E.P. Dutton and Co. 1948. Bound in black cloth stamped in gold which is faded but still readable. no dust jacket. Previous owner's neat name of ffepl The true first edition of the author's third book. First Edition is stated on copyright page. A bit of wear to top spine end. 314pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket. E.P. Dutton and Co. Hardcover
1995DADAX0679436995Brand: Random House 1995-07-04. First Edition. hardcover. New. 6.00x1.25x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Random House hardcover
1967mon0001627334Four Square Books 1967-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 1.2690 17.7665 10.6599. Paperback. Four Square Books paperback
19990091130Quincy: Franciscan Press / Quincy University 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Cloth in dust jacket clean unmarked text near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Uncommon! Franciscan Press / Quincy University hardcover
