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1947ref. 6545New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1947. Very Good/Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1947. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on title page. Octavo; 216pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Black coated boards with gold spine lettering. Unclipped jacket flaps were once glued to pastedowns. Large chips missing on all jacket edges; bottom quarter of jacket spine is AWOL. Back surface of jacket is soiled; flaps foxed probably triggered by previous paste. Jacket now stabilized in mylar. Front and rear endpapers foxed. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown; Brentano's stamp on front free endpaper. Impressions left in front free endpaper by some heavy-handed scrawling now largely erased. Black cloth binding scuffed. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc unknown
1947ref. 6545New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1947. Very Good/Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1947. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on title page. Octavo; 216pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Black coated boards with gold spine lettering. Unclipped jacket flaps were once glued to pastedowns. Large chips missing on all jacket edges; bottom quarter of jacket spine is AWOL. Back surface of jacket is soiled; flaps foxed probably triggered by previous paste. Jacket now stabilized in mylar. Front and rear endpapers foxed. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown; Brentano's stamp on front free endpaper. Impressions left in front free endpaper by some heavy-handed scrawling now largely erased. Black cloth binding scuffed. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc unknown books
1954ref. 372612NY: E. P. Dutton & Company 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a dust jacket that's unclipped $3.50 but has some edgewear. Stated First Edition. SIGNED BY VIDAL on title page dated "1991 LA". Record # 372612 E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1985ref. 46406New York: Summit Books / Antelope 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Summit Books in Association with Antelope 1985. First Edition. Small quarto 27cm; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 160pp.; color photographs throughout. Moderate wear and soil to jacket and board margins spine a bit cocked corners bumped; overall About Very Good internally clean and sound. Signed by Gore Vidal on half title page. Summit Books / Antelope unknown
1956ref. 28787Boston: Little Brown and Company 1956. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1956. First Edition. Signed by Gore Vidal without inscription at title page. Octavo. 278 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black and orange boards. Unclipped dust jacket dampstained along top quarter of jacket; lightly chipped and creased along edges. Boards show light to moderate edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. Little, Brown and Company unknown
1956ref. 28787Boston: Little Brown and Company 1956. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1956. First Edition. Signed by Gore Vidal without inscription at title page. Octavo. 278 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black and orange boards. Unclipped dust jacket dampstained along top quarter of jacket; lightly chipped and creased along edges. Boards show light to moderate edgewear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1985ref. 46406New York: Summit Books / Antelope 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Summit Books in Association with Antelope 1985. First Edition. Small quarto 27cm; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 160pp.; color photographs throughout. Moderate wear and soil to jacket and board margins spine a bit cocked corners bumped; overall About Very Good internally clean and sound. Signed by Gore Vidal on half title page. Summit Books / Antelope unknown books
1950ref. 1393961New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 255 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Red spine aged brown with black and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.00" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the corners a stain on the front flap and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have light bumping along the tail fore corners mild wear along the head and tail edges and stains on the rear board and spine. Textblock has a pen inscription on the front end-page moderate age-toning along the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges light foxing along the edges and a loose binding. Wrapped in a second dust jacket beneath the first. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393961. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover
1956ref. 000670New York: The Zero Press. DJ in archival cover chip sunned. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1956. The Zero Press hardcover
1950ref. 82403New York E. P. Dutton 1950. Stated First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. ; 307 pages; Description: 307 p. 21 cm. New York, E. P. Dutton hardcover
1952ref. 529858New York: E.P. Dutton 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Jacket art by Lester Kohs. Lightly toned pages in first half of book binding slightly cocked very good in a moderately rubbed about very good dust jacket with several chips and tears and interior tape repairs at the flap folds. The first of three mysteries featuring New York City public relations manager Peter Cutler Sargeant II. The other two being Death Before Bedtime and Death Likes It Hot. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1987ref. 313200NY: RANDOM HOUSE. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394561236 . SIGNED by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a very close to fine dj. Slight discoloration at spine on dj. . RANDOM HOUSE. hardcover
1984ref. 177044New York: Random House 1984. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. One of 350 specially bound copies. A thick historical novel about the 16th U.S. President. A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase that has some slight sunning to the rear panel. Signed by Vidal on the limitation page. Random House unknown
1954ref. 1393967New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 254 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.50" has moderate shelving wear small open tears along the fore corners spine head and tail edges and rear cover moderate chipping along the fore edges and joints and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have light bumping along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges and mild age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock has pencil marks on the rear pastedown moderate age-toning along the end-pages pastedowns and edges mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the head edge. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393967. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover
1968ref. 000668Boston: Little Brown & Company. DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1968. Little, Brown, & Company hardcover
1969ref. 1393937Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 255 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$5.95" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the corners and spine head and tail edges and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and mild age-toning along the extremities. Textblock is lightly splitting to gutter from the half-title page to page 14 has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the head edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393937. Special Collections - Upstairs. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
2009ref. 350929New York: Abrams 2009. reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w and color photographs throughout. INSCRIBED BY VIDAL on title page. Otherwise clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 350929 Abrams hardcover
1948ref. A52798New 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
1952ref. 1393971New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 375 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Black and red spine with black and white aged tan lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$3.50" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the fore corners and spine and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities mild age-toning along the head and tail edges and light fraying along the front fore edge. Textblock is lightly splitting to gutter form page 30-62 and 95-126 has stains on pages 95 and 96 adhesive stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges stains on the fore edges light foxing along the head edge and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393971. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover
1949ref. 70610NY: Dutton 1949. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Rear board corners lightly bumped and faint small dampstain on foreedge; dustjacket with edgewear at spine ends corners and front panel bottom edge and toned red ink on the spine. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Vidal's fourth novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dutton Hardcover
1970ref. 313161BOSTON: LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. 0434829587 . SIGNED by Gore Vidal on title page. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket. With light traces of rubbing & mild shelf wear at edges. . LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. hardcover
1996ref. 71501San Francisco: The Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 30 x 22 cm. Quarto. 119pp. Dark blue cloth with paper spine label in illustrated dust jacket. This fiftieth anniversary edition limited to 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies this being copy 175 signed by the author. Photo frontispiece. Printed on German mouldmade Schiller paper. The Arion Press hardcover
1996ref. 302240San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. 3 photo illustrations. 4to navy blue cloth d.w. San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited Edition. Fine. Fiftieth anniversary edition of his first book. No. 208 of 250 signed copies. Prospectus laid in. Arion Press unknown
1996ref. 23992San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Previous owners small exlibris label to front free endpaper else in fine jacket/like new. Dark blue cloth pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp. illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The photographic illustrations depict Vidal in uniform in 1946 frontispiece; the second shows Vidal a year earlier as a Warrant Officer at the helm of FS 35; the third picture is from 1944 showing Vidal as a serviceman in Anchorage Alaska. Printed letterpress on German mouldmade paper. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author this #64. Arion Press hardcover
1996ref. 22813San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket/like new. Dark blue cloth pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp. illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. Publication prospectus laid in. A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The photographic illustrations depict Vidal in uniform in 1946 frontispiece; the second shows Vidal a year earlier as a Warrant Officer at the helm of FS 35; the third picture is from 1944 showing Vidal as a serviceman in Anchorage Alaska. Printed letterpress on German mouldmade paper. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author this #201. Arion Press hardcover
