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1990Best.-Nr. 366650New York: Random House 1990. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Very slight spotting else about fine in a fine slipcase with slight fading. Copy 91 of 200 copies of the limited edition Signed by the author. Random House hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 611919Singapore: Times Edition 1987. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Foreword by Gore Vidal. Text by William Warren. Quarto. 283. Bound in blueish-purple silk which looks different depending on the angle of the light and with gilt lettering on the front board. Modest bookplate on the front pastedown and small rubbed spot at the top of the rear board else fine. One of a limited edition of the "Commemorative Silk Bound Issue" commissioned by American Express of Thailand issued without a dust jacket. This copy is number 95 and is inscribed to the former owner by an unknown person below the limitation. While the trade editions of this title appears plentiful we could not find another copy like this one bound in silk. Uncommon. Times Edition hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 155413London: William Heinemann 1958. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First UK Edition and preceded by the First American Edition published by Zero Press in 1956. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title: "Frank Adonici / from / Gore Vidal." Very Good plus in wrappers as issued with light foxing on the endpapers. William Heinemann unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 155748New York: Random House 1972. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Gore Vidal / Roma '84 / Buon Natale!" A collection of Gore Vidal's essays seen here under an earlier title changed to "Homage to Daniel Shays" before publication. Very Good plus in wrappers with small bruises on the spine and top right corner of the front wrapper. Random House unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 155722San Francisco: Cleis Press 1999. First Edition. First Edition. Author Gore Vidal's personal copy with his "From the Library of" stamp on the front endpaper. Top corners slightly bumped else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Cleis Press unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 1393966New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 216 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Aged grey spine with black lettering shadowed by white. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$2.75" has mild shelving wear small open tears along the corners a long closed tear along the front head edge light chipping along the joints small stains throughout and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the edges stains on the rear board and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has light soiling on some pages 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. DL consignmnet. Shelved in Room Z. 1393966. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 1393910Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1964. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo viii 503 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. Black spine with gold and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$6.95" has mild shelving wear chipping along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges scraping along the front joint and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild shelving wear mild age-toning throughout and light fraying along the extremities. Textblock has illustrated maps of the ancient Roman Empire on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges small stains on the edges and mild age-toning throughout. Inscription on the half-title page reading "Hubert Beimont with all best wishes" signed by Gore Vidal dated "May '64". DL consignment. Shelved in Room Z. 1393910. Special Collections - Upstairs. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1819Best.-Nr. 724041819. A Very Valuable Treatise on that Very Intricate and Important Subject" Watkins Charles 1767-1808. Vidal Robert Studley Editor. An Essay Towards the Further Elucidation of the Law of Descents; With an Appendix on the Distribution of the Personal Effects of Intestates. Corrected and Enlarged from the Author's Papers And Further Augmented with Notes of All the More Recently Adjudged Cases on the Subject Down to the Present Period. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons 1819. xvi 331 1 4 pp. Includes 4-page published catalogue publisher advertisment to verso of half-title. Two fold-out engraved copperplate tables of descents and consanguinity. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5". Contemporary calf blind fillets to boards lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Minor nicks and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities light gatoring to spine small chip to head of spine joints starting at ends corners bumped and lightly worn early owner bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text light foxing in places light soiling to a few leaves some creasing and edgewear to folding tables. $350. Third edition. Charles Watkins 1767-1808 was a legal writer and poet. This is a useful supplement to Chapter 14 Volume II of Blackstone's Commentaries "Of Title by Descent". "Mr. Watkins' Essay on Descents is a very valuable treatise on that very intricate and important subject" Marvin. First published in 1793 this treatise went through four editions the final in 1837. Marvin Legal Bibliography 721 Citing Barton Modern Precedents in Conveyancing. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:478 35. Rigg revised by Brown "Watkins Charles" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography accessed online. unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 144440Paris: Filmsonor 1955. Collection of 17 vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso of one portrait photograph and several with annotations in manuscript pencil and ink noting numbers and title on the versos. Based on Peter von Mendelssohn's 1935 novel "Douloureuse Arcadie." Shot in both French and German versions each with a different cast with the exception of Marianne Hold in the lead role. Director Julien Duvivier's other films include "Pépé le Moko" 1937 "Maria Chapdelaine" 1934 and "Panique" 1946 Set and shot on location in Bavaria. Photos range from 3.25 x 4.5 inches to 7 x 9.5 inches several with small white borders. Very Good plus with light curling and a few faint creases. Filmsonor unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 172828New York: Dutton 1947. hardcover. Dust wrapper. New York: Dutton 1947. First Edition. Near fine copy with a touch of wear to the edges of the dust wrapper Dutton unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 1393918New York NY: Little Brown and Company 1957. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xxiii 158 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus condition dust jacket. Dark green spine aged tan-green with black and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$2.95" has moderate shelving wear small open tears along the extremities and front cover a large closed tear along the front cover tail small closed tears along the head edges stains on the rear cover and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards are cocked have mild wear along the head and tail edges chipping along the tail edges small white stains and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges moderate age-toning along the edges and stains on the tail edges. Contains a 1958 playbill for "Visit to a Small Planet". Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Room Z. 1393918. Special Collections - Upstairs. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1991Best.-Nr. 52045New York: Armchair Detective Library 1991. First Thus. First Thus originally published 1952-54. Octavo 23cm. 3 volumes each one of 26 lettered signed copies of a total edition of 126. Bound uniformly in maroon cloth titled in gilt on covers and spines; slipcases; publisher's clear acetate dustjackets. All three volumes Fine in the original clear acetate jackets and slipcases. Attractive set of these signed limited reprints of works originally issued under Vida'ls pseudonym Edgar Box in the early- to mid-1950s featuring detective Edgar Cutler Sargeant. Includes:. Death in the Fifth Position 1991 - Letter "D" signed Gore Vidal Death Before Bedtime 1990 - Letter "I" signed Gore Vidal Death Likes It Hot 1990 - Letter "C" signed Edgar Box and Gore Vidal. Armchair Detective Library unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 153996Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Vintage reference photograph of novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her husband Sir Frederick Browning visiting actors Alec Guinness and Nicole Maurey on the set of the 1959 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 novel by Du Maurier about a lonely university professor who meets his lookalike a wealthy but discontented count while vacationing in France and finds himself unwittingly forced to swap places and assume the count's life. Shot on location in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 166094N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actress Katharine Hepburn and producer Sam Spiegel laughing together on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. In New Orleans in 1937 a traumatized young woman struggles with memories of her cousin who died under strange circumstances during a European vacation the previous year. Nominated for two Academy Awards including one for Best Actress for both Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Set in New Orleans and throughout Spain shot on location in Spain and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1889Best.-Nr. 265994Paris: Maison Quantin 1889. First edition one of 500 copies. Frontispiece 29 plates. vi 347 1 pp. 8vo. Later orange cloth. Original wrappers bound in. Soiling to covers. First edition one of 500 copies. Frontispiece 29 plates. vi 347 1 pp. 8vo. A history of the violin condensed from the author's celebrated Les Instruments à Archet. "The feature which gives this volume its pre-eminent value is the quantity of marvellous photogravures of labels ." Fidiculus Bibliographia. Fidiculus Bibliographia 193 Maison Quantin unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 23463Buenos Aires: Mitchell's English Book-Store 1944. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xxviii 115pp. plus 24 color plates. One of 1870 numbered copies from a total printing of 2000 copies This is number 1441. The text is a facsimile in 8vo of the Ackermann edition London. 1820 complete with 24 full color plates. Finely bound in cowhide with green endpapers with a velvet-like texture. Rear inner hinge cracked else a fine copy. . Mitchell's English Book-Store hardcover books
1950Best.-Nr. 155687New York: E.P. Dutton 1950. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED and dated on the front endpaper by Gore Vidal to his friend and Harcourt Brace editor Don Wickenden: "Dear Don- get well ever - Gore Panajachel remember me - 1949." Wickenden's annotations in manuscript pencil appear throughout the book on the margins. About Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint foxing on the page fore-edges. Jacket lightly toned on the spine and rear panels with brief wear on the spine ends. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 198741970. Twentieth Century Fox's Myra Breckinridge publicity archive 1970 documents the visual promotion of a major-studio film centered on a transgender woman gender nonconformity and attacks on Hollywood masculinity. Adapted from Gore Vidal's 1968 novel the film starred Raquel Welch as Myra Breckinridge with John Huston Mae West Rex Reed Farrah Fawcett and Roger Herren in supporting roles; AFI identifies the film's subjects as including bisexuality homosexuality lesbianism "sex change" Hollywood actors students seduction and gendered social conflict. The material belongs to LGBTQ film and New Hollywood publicity culture illustrating how a controversial commercial studio release used star image costume and provocative gender performance to market a film built around trans identity and the disruption of conventional sexual roles. The archive consists of four 1970 promotional items for Myra Breckinridge: three color lobby card photographs and one vintage glossy black-and-white silver gelatin publicity photograph. The large lobby card measures 11 x 14 inches; the two smaller lobby cards measure 8 x 10 inches; the silver gelatin photograph measures 8 x 10 inches. The lobby cards show scenes from the film featuring Welch and Huston including images of Welch in the white costumes closely associated with the character's stylized screen persona; all three lobby cards carry the film title the 20th Century Fox logo and a 1970 copyright statement in the lower white margin. The images foreground costume celebrity and theatrical confrontation rather than narrative continuity making the group especially useful for studying the marketing of gender transgression through Hollywood glamour camp visual codes and star publicity. 1 Twentieth Century Fox. Myra Breckinridge large lobby card. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox 1970. Color promotional card 11 x 14 inches showing Raquel Welch in a scene from the film and retaining the printed studio and copyright information in the lower margin. 2 Twentieth Century Fox. Myra Breckinridge lobby card. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox 1970. Color promotional card 8 x 10 inches featuring Welch and emphasizing the film's use of costume and pose in constructing Myra's public image. 3 Twentieth Century Fox. Myra Breckinridge lobby card. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox 1970. Color promotional card 8 x 10 inches showing another publicity still from the film with printed title and studio branding. 4 Twentieth Century Fox. Myra Breckinridge silver gelatin publicity photograph. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox 1970. Glossy black-and-white 8 x 10 inch still connected to the film's original publicity campaign. Minor edge wear and light handling to the lobby cards and photograph; images remain clean and legible; overall very good. Focused group of original publicity materials for a controversial LGBTQ film text whose mainstream studio circulation trans subject matter and highly stylized presentation of gender make it a significant artifact of 1970s queer film reception and visual culture. unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 155928London: John Lehmann 1949. First Edition. First UK Edition preceded by the First Edition published by E.P. Dutton in 1948. Gore Vidal's third novel a milestone in gay literature. Very Good plus in an about Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at the corners. Jacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn with a pinhole on the center rear hinge and a faintly faded spine. John Lehmann unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. WALTER-FILM004146Vintage original second revision script by Gore Vidal adapted from the novel by Lucian Truscott USA. Los Angeles: Richard Roth Productions 6 March 1981. 11261 quarto brad bound in production wrappers. Paper filing label across spine NEAR FINE. Second revision draft script of this early form of an adaptation by Gore Vidal to television of Lucian Truscott's novel. In its present state the script would translate into a two-hour television film. Truscott's novel set at West Point at the time of the Vietnam War reportedly based it on fact. The completed film when screened on television dealt with homophobia both external and internalized and it was very strong stuff in the mid-1980s at the height of the Reagan era. The film was clearly troubling to some contemporary critics but it nonetheless was nominated for three Emmy Awards. A very interesting example of Vidal's work as a screenwriter especially because of the film's LGBTQ subject matter. Richard Roth Prod. paperback books
1948Best.-Nr. 1393923New 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 in Room Z. 1393923. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 144976Spain: Profilmes 1976. Collection of 25 vintage borderless photographs for the international release of the 1976 Spanish exploitation film. Also included in the original plain brown paper envelope and a glossy full-color two sided flyer for the film featuring a synopsis in English French and Spanish. Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of a friend only to uncover a possible supernatural explanation in a young woman the villagers claim is a witch. Photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Flyer 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Profilmes unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 1393922New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 222 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue wave designs and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$2.50" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the extremities bending wear along the head and tail edges and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and light fraying along the corners. Textblock has light soiling on few pages stains on 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 in Room Z. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Gore Vidal's debut novel written when he was 19 serving as first mate on a ship in the Aleutian Islands. The title "Williwaw" being a word thought to have Native American origins for a blast of wind descending from the mountains into the sea. 1393922. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 155919Los Angeles: Sylvester and Orphanos 1979. First Edition. First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies this being letter J SIGNED by the author. Bound in full black morocco leather with gilt titles and decorations on the boards. Endpapers lightly toned on the edges else about Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Sylvester and Orphanos unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 02867EN FAMILLE A. Blaizot Libraie-Editeur 1905first edition just about fine in original wraps which have been placed read bound in a contemporary early 20th century 3/4 leather and marbled board binding with MARBLED END-PAPERS and highly decorated raised spine which itself has light wear yet is still in vg or better condition with all 32 full color illustrations by Pierre Vidal present and in fine condition as well. 1/151 copies of this very charming publication. A. Blaizot, Libraie-Editeur paperback books
