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1956ref. 30614NY: The Zero Press 1956. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Text pages with beginning toning board bottom edges with slightest shelfwear; dustjacket corners and spine ends just touched Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Zero Press Hardcover books
1988ref. 584518New York: Random House 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Spine ends slightly bumped board edges lightly sunned still near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine. Signed by the author on the title page. Random House hardcover books
1988ref. 1393919New York NY: Random House 1988. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo viii 303 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Off-white spine with green and brown lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price uncut "$18.95" has mild age toning along the edges and mild shelving wear. Boards are slightly warped small discoloration along the rear tail edge mild bending wear along the spine head/tail. textblock has foxing along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1393919. Special Collections - Downstairs. Random House hardcover books
2000ref. 014905Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2000. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front limitation page. All edges gilt. Covers and spine designed and lettered in gilt. A silk bookmark is sewn-in. A certificate of authenticity and an Easton Note about the author and book are laid-in. This historical novel challenged the traditional view of US history. First published in 1973. Aaron Burr was Jefferson's Vice-President and famously killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel. 430pp. Signed by Author. Collector's Edition. Full Black Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. The Easton Press Hardcover books
1950ref. 350752New York: E.P. Dutton 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Offsetting and foxing on the endpapers very good or better in price-clipped very good dustwrapper with some old internal repair. Signed by the author. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1950ref. 1393964New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 307 1 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Black and green faded to grey spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.00" has moderate shelving wear small open tears along the extremities chipping along the joints and fore edges stains on the rear cover and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges moderate age-toning along the extremities and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild bending wear along the head fore corners of pages 293-296 stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393964. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover books
1987ref. 21601New York: Random House 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth front cover and front cover with inset black label lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. 486 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition copy 2 of 250 signed by Gore Vidal in black ink. Random House hardcover books
1987ref. 005886Random House 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. NY: Random House 1987. Copyright page states First Random House Edition." This is number 90 of 250 numbered limited first edition copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. Book fine in publisher's fine matching slipcase. No DJ as issued. Random House hardcover books
1972ref. 1393927New York NY: Random House 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo viii 449 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with faded gold orange and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$8.95" has mild shelving wear bending wear along the font head edge light chipping along the fore corners spine head and tail edges and mild age-toning throughout and mild bending wear along the front flap. Boards have mild wear along the spine. Textblock has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393927. Special Collections - Upstairs. Random House hardcover books
1968ref. 1411734Boston: Little Brown and Company 1968. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 264 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with gold lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover price uncut "$5.95" has a crease to the top corner of the front flap and light shelving wear. Boards have light bumping to edges and light general shelving wear. Textblock has light stains to the front matter and light general shelving wear. Signed flat by Gore Vidal to title page. Shelved in Room X. 1411734. Special Collections - Downstairs. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1962ref. 010026Little 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 books
1965ref. 70626NY: 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 books
1948ref. 562184New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Pages 259-262 and 279-282 roughly opened along bottom edge pages evenly age-toned spine mildly cocked else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
1949ref. 50381London: 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. Vidal's third novel which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character 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 books
1946ref. 56534New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1946. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 21cm. Original black cloth titled in blue on spine and front cover; 222pp. Pinpoint traces of rubbing at base of spine and board corners; endpapers mildly toned as usual; still a straight tight very Near Fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Vidal's first book a novel of suspense set on board a U.S. Army troop ship during WW2. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1946ref. 101473New York: E. P. Dutton & Company 1946. Hardcover. 222p. ex-library first edition of Vidal's first book signed by Vidal on the title page half-title and f.e.p. roughly removed boards somewhat edgeworn with a couple of stain dots pastedowns browned with some offsetting to title leaf library stamp and shadow of absent pocket on r.e.p. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
1991ref. 368886New York: The Armchair Detective Library 1991. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus. Fine in a very good slipcase with slight spotting. Copy X of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. The Armchair Detective Library hardcover books
1950ref. 12560DARK GREEN BRIGHT RED Dutton 1950 first edition near fine in a bright vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Dutton unknown books
1973ref. 155680New York: Random House 1973. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title: "Michael Eric / best utopian wishes / Gore Vidal." The first book in the Narratives of Empire series. Near Fine in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Faint soil on the page block. Jacket lightly edgeworn with a faintly faded spine. Random House unknown books
1990ref. 155733New York: Random House 1990. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Very Good plus in wrappers with light toning along the top edge of the front wrapper. Random House unknown books
1984ref. 155893New York: Random House 1984. Limited Edition one of 350 numbered copies this being No. 103 SIGNED by the author. Fine and unread in a lightly faded else Near Fine example of the publisher's slipcase with no dust jacket as issued. Random House unknown books
1953ref. 164436New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1953. First Edition. First Edition. Inscribed by Vidal under his pseudonym to fellow author William Targ: "For Wm Targ / Edgar Box." Very Good with the usual discoloration to the cloth and some foxing to the front pastedown. In a Very Good dust jacket that is foxed on the verso with chipping along the top edge and a mostly separated front flap fold. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1964ref. 190676Boston: Little Brown & Co 1964. 503p. endpaper maps signed by the author at top-corner of first free blank hardcover first edition stated bound in blue-gray cloth boards gilt and unclipped edgeworn dustjacket with a short tears and scratches on the back panel otherwise in very good condition. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
2000ref. 40859NY: Doubleday 2000. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Spine topedge lightly pushed bottom edge soiled; dustjacket with few tiny edge wrinkles and light rubbing on the rear panel. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed first edition copies of this Vidal title are uncommon. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Doubleday Hardcover books
1967ref. 14779Boston: Little Brown & Co 1967. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in a price-clipped very good jacket with a closed tear to the bottom of the front panel near the spine. Signed by the author at the top of the first white blank page. Here the author tackles politics with his characteristic wit and insight and traces the fortunes of a number of men and women who in the years 1937 to 1952 helped to transform the American republic into what Vidal refers to as "possibly the last empire on earth." The author's sixth novel in his Narratives of Empire series of historical novels. 377 pages. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
