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1988réf. 126590New York: Random House 1988. First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning author. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page “Valerie love Gore.” The recipient Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout their lives. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional association. Random House hardcover
1988réf. 126989New York: Random House 1988. First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning author. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Gore Vidal for Kit with love." The recipient Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency only six years older than Gore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional association. Random House hardcover
1973réf. CORV-BBC-X000732Random House 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 6x2x12. Signed. 1973 stated first edition. Signed by Gore Vidal at front free endpaper. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering accented with swirl design at front cover gilt titling with swirl design at spine. Gilt sharp and bright. Boards very good with light shelf wear and age wear including very gentle fraying to cloth at corners gentle wear and fading to cloth along edges and spine tips. Spine slightly cocked. Binding sound. Dust jacket is a pale apricot color with bold red and black lettering at the front and a monochrome portrait of Gore Vidal at the back. Jacket good only with more moderate wear. Dj spine is sunned and has soiling. Front panel has two closed tears to the bottom edge 1mm and 1.5mm and rear panel has faint scratches and a 1mm closed tear to the top edge. Dust jacket protected in Mylar. Top edge stained in red. Sturdy beige endpapers. Pages toned lightly. Text free of markings. Random House hardcover
1983réf. 126272New York: Random House 1983. First edition of this novel by the award-winning author. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Kit - all love - Gore Vidal." The recipient Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency only six years older than Gore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket art by Carol Wald. An exceptional association. A satiric look at the state of the union centers on a relocated Duluth and its assorted politicians policemen and women terrestrial and extraterrestrial aliens Hispanics feminists mobsters and other minorities Random House hardcover
1947réf. 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
1964réf. 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
1954réf. 47062New York:: E. P. Dutton. 1954. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with very slight soiling to the rear panel--except that the jacket has been trimmed and is approximately 1/8" shorter than the volume. . 8vo. E. P. Dutton,. hardcover
1966réf. 40639New York:: Grove Press 1966. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. SIGNED by Vidal on the title page. Just about fine in a near fine dustjacket. Uncommon signed. . First printing. Includes both Vidal's rather controversial adaptation and the original play by Duerrenmatt. as well as the original cast list from the Broadway play. "Vidal has supplied a specially-written Preface for this edition of his play in which he sets forth his reasons for the kind of adaptation he has made. At Mr. Vidal's suggestion Duerrenmatt's Romulus the Great is given in translation from the original German by Gerhard Nellhaus for the reader who wishes to make his own judgment concerning the merits of the two plays." xv 165 pp. Grove Press, hardcover
1992réf. 6000HARVARD. CAMBRIDGE 1992. Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine in plain light blue printed wrappers. An uncommon advance. . HARVARD. CAMBRIDGE 1992 paperback
1960réf. biblio201Signed by Author with inscription on Half-Title page and again on Title Page First Edition VG/VG Tight binding Unmarked text Modern First Literature Play Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1947réf. 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
1964réf. 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
1873réf. 53054Bruxelles: Bureau du Bulletin Belge de la Photographie 1873. First edition. 8vo. 51 pp. later cloth-backed marbled paper wrappers. The title page bears the stamp of a chemist as well as a manufacturer of photographic chemicals the later stamp also appears on 2 additional leaves. Occasional light foxing toning and moderate wear. A near very good copy. The Autotype Fine Art Company of London produced a unique form of collotype prints a carbon transfer process. This manual revises and enlarges the 1870 manual by J. R. Sawyer. Roosens and Salu No. 586. OCLC locates a single copy at the Getty Research Institute. Bureau du Bulletin Belge de la Photographie unknown
1900réf. 271311900. Very good condition. Vidal 1849 - 1913 or 1929 was a French printmaker engraver and illustrator. He is best known for his illustrations of works by Prosper Mérimée Honoré de Balzac Pierre Louÿs. His art has become a comprehensive record of the costumes fashion hair design and furnishings of the Belle Époque as recorded in the Prints Cabinet of the National Library of France. Wikipedia 7 1/2 x 13 3/4" under glass in gilded frame 16 1/2 x 24". Signed within the image and in pencil below image lower right corner. unknown
1819réf. 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
1819réf. 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
réf. 40305NY: Dutton. VG in VG dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A very nice copy of the first edition minor edgewear to the DJ a little toning to the pages. An important novel in the history of gay literature. . Dutton hardcover
réf. M5336London The Holland Press 1961. Large 4to. xvi 357; vi 383; vi 160 ccxxii pp. plates. Publ. boards with dustwrappers. Three volumes. Fine. Complete set of the reprint. First published in 1876-78. The first volume deals entirely with violin music. The second volume deals exhaustively with the instrument makers. The third volume discusses musical typography gives biographies of musical composers and provides a "magnificent" Grove bibliography of chamber music. hardcover
réf. 53584Editions les Yeux ouverts 1970. Le tirage en a été limité numérotés de 469 exemplaires sur Japon mat numéroté 177. /// Couverture souple rempliée lettrage et ornements sur le plat. Sous coffret de rangement rigide s'ouvre à la manière d'un livre toilé fond mauve pour les plats et le dos blanc pour les tranches orné sur le plat lettrage sur le plat et sur le dos mesurant environ 48 x 34 x 4.5 cm. . Aubrey Beardsley 1872-1898 est un graveur et illustrateur anglais un des inventeurs de l'art moderne qui à l'âge de 20 ans avait 20 ans d'avance sur son époque / Editions les Yeux ouverts 1970 unknown
1851réf. 25257Paris : J.-B. Baillière 1851. VIDAL Aug. de Cassis.Traité de Pathologie Externe et de Médecine Opératoire avec des Résumés d’Anatomie des Tissus et des Régions. Troisième édition. Revue corrigée et augmentée. Avec 575 figures intercalées dans le texte. 5 volumes. Paris J.-B. Baillière1851 215x130mm demi-reliure parchemin plats cartonnés étiquettes de titre au dos manuscrites. Quelques rousseurs. No hidden customs fees for orders shipped to the U.S.A with a value of up to 800 USD PDDP shipping we pay the VAT in advance J.-B. Baillière unknown
1977réf. 51275New York : Random House 1977. Stated First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Flat signed by the author on the half-title. ; 285 pages New York : Random House hardcover
2016réf. __3110318121Mouton De Gruyter 2016. Hardcover. New. 600 pages. German language. 9.44x6.69x1.65 inches. Mouton De Gruyter hardcover
2024réf. x-1032795182Routledge 2024. Hardcover. New. 182 pages. 9.19x6.13x9.21 inches. Routledge hardcover