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1900ref. 32023Paris: Piublisher not identified 1900. First edition. 4to. 102 pp. portrait frontispiece with tissue guard illustrations in text 10 plates with tissue guards 1 of these in color. Printed wrappers expertly repaired with a new paper spine. Moderate wear; a very good copy. Housed in a new cloth clamshell box. A history of photography and processes which includes two chapters by Léon Vidal - one is a history of photogravure and the other on color photography. Details several other photomechanical processes and their inventors. Illustrations include those by Robert Demachy and by Puyo. There are several issues of this report three of which vary only in size; a fourth a later issue has a slightly different wording to the title and is dated 1903. Étienne-Jules Marey was the president of the committee. Roosens and Salu No. 3704. Piublisher not identified unknown
2003ref. 21191ENew York: Abrams 2003. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Oversized 132 pages. Gore Vidal is in a photograph in the company of Tennessee Williams Donald Windham Buffie Johnson Tanaquil Le Clereq and Virginia Reed at Cafe Nicholson 1949 the occasion of which Vidal begins his introduction. This photograph appeared in the first issue of the short-lived magazine Flair edited by American writer and artist Fleur Cowles. A black & white photographic portrait of artistic and literary life in the post-war mid-century years featuring the work of photographer Karl Bissinger including images of Truman Capote Carson McCullers Collette Henry Miller Aldous Huxley James Baldwin John Ford Jean Renoir Jean Cocteau Marlon Brando Gary Cooper Agnes de Mille and many more. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. with a 1 3/4” label affixed to the spine printed with “Introduction Gore Vidal”. Abrams unknown
1953ref. 8963New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1953. First edition. A very good copy some fading to edges of cloth in an about very good dust jacket edge wear chipping to spine ends and corners ragged tear to upper front panel with creasing some general rubbing. Uncommon. 8963. Octavo cloth. The author's second mystery. Washington D.C. setting. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. unknown
1952ref. 09309New York: E. P. Dutton 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. octavo 221 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.50 on front flap and small chip at head of rear panel. Owner name and town on FFEP. E. P. Dutton unknown
1952ref. 09309New York: E. P. Dutton 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. octavo 221 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.50 on front flap and small chip at head of rear panel. Owner name and town on FFEP. E. P. Dutton unknown books
1981ref. FLAHIVE-3935Random House New York 1981 Random House New York 1981. First edition. First printing with full number line to 2 as was customary of Random House at time of printing. Issued without jacket. A fine copy in a fine hard slipcase no jacket as issued. A clean unmarked copy. This copy is one of just 500 that have been SIGNED by Vidal on the limitation page as pictured. Collections. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Random House, New York hardcover
1954ref. 155433New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in a lightly rubbed about Near Fine dust jacket. E.P. Dutton unknown
1954ref. 155433New York: E.P. Dutton 1954. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in a lightly rubbed about Near Fine dust jacket. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1969ref. 155747Boston: Little Brown 1969. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Gore Vidal's first collection of essays. Very Good plus in wrappers lightly toned on the wrapper extremities with front hinge starting. Little, Brown unknown
1969ref. 155747Boston: Little Brown 1969. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Gore Vidal's first collection of essays. Very Good plus in wrappers lightly toned on the wrapper extremities with front hinge starting. Little, Brown unknown books
1966ref. 155689New York: Grove Press 1966. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Gore Vidal on the title page. Includes the original play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt and Vidal's controversial adaptation. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown with a couple of splashes on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single vertical crease on the rear flap. Grove Press unknown
1966ref. 9258New York: Grove Press Inc 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grove Press Inc. 1966. First Edition stated First Printing. Signed by Vidal on title page without inscription. Octavo. 165 pp. Printed dust jacket with $6.00 price present. Dark brown boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with a couple shallow chips and one tear along bottom edge. Boards are edgeworn with a bit of white discoloration along bottom edge. Boards bow ever so slightly at fore edge. Faint musty smell. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to edges of text block but overall pages are clean and unmarked. Grove Press, Inc unknown
1983ref. 155421New York: Random House 1983. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in wrappers. Random House unknown
1983ref. 155421New York: Random House 1983. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in wrappers. Random House unknown books
1966ref. 155689New York: Grove Press 1966. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Gore Vidal on the title page. Includes the original play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt and Vidal's controversial adaptation. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown with a couple of splashes on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single vertical crease on the rear flap. Grove Press unknown books
1966ref. 9258New York: Grove Press Inc 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grove Press Inc. 1966. First Edition stated First Printing. Signed by Vidal on title page without inscription. Octavo. 165 pp. Printed dust jacket with $6.00 price present. Dark brown boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with a couple shallow chips and one tear along bottom edge. Boards are edgeworn with a bit of white discoloration along bottom edge. Boards bow ever so slightly at fore edge. Faint musty smell. Binding is sound. Touch of foxing to edges of text block but overall pages are clean and unmarked. Grove Press, Inc unknown books
1957ref. 158233N.p.: N.p. 1957. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1957 French film including four oversize photographs. Numerical annotations and annotations identifying subjects in manuscript pencil and ink on the versos. Loosely based on Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "The Sucker Punch." A rich widow's daughter marries a good-looking but self-interested man who promptly falls in love with another woman. Oversize photographs 9.5 x 12 inches and one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Selby France. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 158233N.p.: N.p. 1957. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1957 French film including four oversize photographs. Numerical annotations and annotations identifying subjects in manuscript pencil and ink on the versos. Loosely based on Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "The Sucker Punch." A rich widow's daughter marries a good-looking but self-interested man who promptly falls in love with another woman. Oversize photographs 9.5 x 12 inches and one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 144209Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly from the 1959 film. With manuscript annotations in graphite on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. A disturbed young woman is coerced by her aunt into receiving a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin while the three of them were on vacation in Europe the summer before. Set in New Orleans and various Locations in Spain. Shot on location in Spain and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1959ref. 144209Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly from the 1959 film. With manuscript annotations in graphite on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. A disturbed young woman is coerced by her aunt into receiving a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin while the three of them were on vacation in Europe the summer before. Set in New Orleans and various Locations in Spain. Shot on location in Spain and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1997ref. 21190EBoston: Godine 1997. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Preface by Kurt Vonnegut. Introduction by Trudy Butner Krisher. With a two-page section for Gore Vidal; one of Vidal on the Today Show with Barbara Walters in New York 1974 and the other of him in an informal setting in London 1972. Oversized. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a trace of edge wear. A collection of more than a hundred black & white photographic portraits of leading modern writers including Tennessee Williams Rex Stout Janet Flanner John Updike Anais Nin Joan Didion Thornton Wilder Edward Albee Vladimir Nabokov Pablo Neruda Toni Morrison James Baldwin Kurt Vonnegut and more. Godine unknown
1742ref. 245540Madrid: Por Manuel Fernandez 1742. 28 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Laid into later Venetian Calf portfolio. 28 pp. 8vo. Por Manuel Fernandez unknown
1742ref. 245540Madrid: Por Manuel Fernandez 1742. 28 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Laid into later Venetian Calf portfolio. 28 pp. 8vo. Por Manuel Fernandez unknown books
1956ref. 61988New York: The Zero Press 1956. First edition. 154pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue and gray cloth. Previous owner's ink signature on flyleaf otherwise a virtually mint copy in near fine unclipped dust jacket. First edition. 154pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Zero Press unknown
1950ref. LW-3011E. P. Dutton New York 1950 New York: E. P. Dutton 1950. Hardcover. First edition. First printing. Fine/Fine. Ae clean tight copy exceptionally bright. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free. Fiction-Vidal. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. E. P. Dutton, New York hardcover