Vidal

1948 · réf. A52798 — New York NY: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. . Good in Fair dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 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 . 1948. E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover