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1991réf. 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
1959réf. 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
1959réf. 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
1889réf. 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
1944réf. 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
1950réf. 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
1970réf. 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
1949réf. 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
1981réf. 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
1948réf. 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
1976réf. 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
1946réf. 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
1979réf. 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
1905réf. 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
réf. 304950Paris: chez vidal. MATTED. Provenance: Comte O. Benhague 1827 or 1828-1879 Lugt 2004: Cortlandt Bishop Lugt 2770b. chez vidal unknown books
1996réf. CNAP051San Francisco: The Arion Press 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo 11 5/8" by 8 1/4" 132 pp. The types for the text are Hess Bold and Caslon Bold for italic in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris with larger sizes of Hess handset for display. The photographs were printed by offset lithography and are tipped onto the pages. The paper is Schiller a German mould-made sheet. The binding done in-house is machine-sewn and bound in full dark blue cloth with a paper spine label. The endpapers are printed with the plans of the ship in the novel. The dust jacket is cover weight paper with strips of dark blue cloth along the top and bottom edges and printed with the review quotations on the back panel that were printed on the dust jacket of the first edition conventional promotional copy on the flaps and a drawing of a freight-supply ship on the front cover beneath the title set in ascending sizes of Futura Bold type. Edition of 250 numbered copies plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce signed by the author. Gore Vidal 1925-2012 wrote a new introduction for this fiftieth anniversary edition of his first novel composed during World War II when he was a nineteen-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship in the Aleutians. The battles are far removed but nature becomes the enemy in the form of a storm at sea and the psychological subject is the tedium of waiting for the war to end. Reproduced are plans for the type of freight-supply ship Vidal was assigned to and that he used as the setting for the novel. The drawings were found by Hoyem with assistance from the San Francisco Maritime Museum and the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham Washington. They show the outboard profile deck plans for the navigation bridge and main- and below-deck arrangements. Stephanie Dal Porto who answered the Press's telephone was terribly worried that Gore Vidal would call from Italy and that she would impulsively imitate the voice of the comedienne Lily Tomlin playing a receptionist by responding: "Yes Mr. Veedle!" When he did call Hoyem answered and the author said that he had not replied to emails because his Internet connection and computer had been zapped by lightening. __POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
1950réf. 261194New York 1950. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal at Edgevales / XIX hh 25 / Nov 1 1950"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission" and stamped in blind. 1 vols. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal at Edgevales / XIX hh 25 / Nov 1 1950"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission" and stamped in blind. 1 vols. 7 x 5 inches. Early photographic portrait of the 25 year old Vidal. unknown books
1972réf. 33064Jerusalem: Makor Publishing Ltd 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/290. Complete 4 volume set. 4to. Half-leather over blue cloth gold-stamped image on the cover and raised bands. Brown edges and yellow book mark ribbons. Hebrew and English title-pages. Facsimile of the 1509 Constantinople printing of Maimonides' famous code of Jewish Law the “Mishnah Torah.” This was the first edition to include the criticisms of R. Abraham b. David of Posquieres as well as the 14th century commentary Magid-Mishnah by the Spanish scholar Vidal Yom Tov of Tolosa and Migdal Oz by Shem Tov b. Abraham Gaon. Text in Hebrew. Covers slightly scratched and edges rubbed. Overall in good condition. Makor Publishing Ltd hardcover books
1957réf. 163769Paris: Cinédis 1957. Collection of 19 vintage color slides taken by photographer Sam Levin most with Brigitte Bardot as the subject for the 1957 French film. Occasional annotations in manuscript ink on the cardboard sleeves. Based on the 1885 play by Henry Becque about the romantic and troubled relationship between the French president's daughter and her father's secretary. 2 x 2 inches. About Fine. Cinédis unknown books
1946réf. 300867New York: Dutton 1946. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo black cloth lettered in blue d.w. New York: Dutton 1946. First Edition. His first book. Fine copy in a near fine price intact dust wrapper with minor rubbing at the corners & light soil on the back pane.l Dutton unknown books
1948réf. 155933New York: E.P. Dutton 1948. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED in the year of publication by the author on the title page: "For Drew Dudley- / with all best wishes / Gore Vidal / 1948." Vidal's third novel a milestone in gay literature. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine lightly rubbed. Jacket moderately rubbed on the front panel and front flap fold with chips at the spine ends and corners and accompanying creasing. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1739réf. 27896Jessnitz Saxony-Anhalt: Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham 1739. Hardcover. Good. Four volumes folio published between 1739 and 1742. Woodcut printer's device at titles; woodcut endpieces in first volume. Hebrew text opens from right to left; leaf numbers in Hebrew characters. Hebrew chronograms yield Jewish dates of publication 5499-5502. Brown library buckram scuffed at extremities spines lettered in gilt. Endleaves renewed. A good set. See foliation and condition notes for each volume below. Scarce eighteenth-century edition of this seminal compendium of Jewish law halakhah. Compiled between 1170 and 1180 while Maimonides was living in Egypt the Mishneh Torah is regarded as the author's magnum opus. It is the only Medieval-era work that surveys the full panoply of Jewish observance including those laws that are only applicable when the Jerusalem Temple is in existence. The present edition is the first to contain Judah Rosanes' commentary Mishneh le-melekh. "Mishneh Torah" The Repetition of the Law is an appellation originally applied to the biblical book of Deuteronomy; the subtitle "ha-Yad ha-Hazakah" The Book of the Strong Hand plays on its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen is represented in Hebrew letters as Yud 10 Dalet 4 which forms the word "yad" hand. Maimonides sought to provide a complete statement of the Oral Law so that a person who mastered first the Written Torah and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book. Contemporary reaction was mixed with strong and immediate opposition focusing on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the Talmud itself. Maimonides responded to these criticisms and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several authorities a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted. Likewise: One must follow Maimonides even when the latter opposed his teachers since he surely knew their views and if he decided against them he must have disapproved their interpretation. Vol. 1: 1 title 8 234 102 3 ff. Repairs at title page with very slight loss of text at verso following leaf and the final leaf. Text embrowned often heavily in first half with some light marginal dampstains throughout. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least three hands. Vol. 2: 1 title 148 112 2 ff. Marginal repairs to first and last two leaves no loss of text. Moderately dampstained throughout with some mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; three old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation. Vol. 3: 1 title 221 169 ff. Repairs at bottom margin to title with loss of some text below imprint and at final lines of rabbinic approbations at verso and at bottom margin following leaf with some text loss and obscuration by translucent paper tape. Small marginal repair at final leaf. Light dampstaining in first half; remaining text with mild embrowning. Old manuscript entries in Hebrew at title in at least two hands; two old stamps at title including at least one censor's approbation. Vol. 4: 1 title 135 138-154 157 1 ff. Marginal repairs to title and final leaf no loss of text. Sporadic light embrowning and marginal stains. Old manuscript entry in Hebrew at title. A complete set with only minimal text loss in a few places -- a very usable scholar's copy. References: Vinograd Jessnitz 46; Fürst 2: p. 295; Zenker p. 583 Title in Hebrew: משנה תורה ×”×•× היד החזקה להנשר הגדול ×”×’×ון רבינו משה בר מימון זצ׳׳ל ×¢× השגת הר×ב׳׳ד זצ׳׳ל ופירוש הרב מגיד משנה וכסף משנה להג×ון המשביר רבינו יוסף ק×רו זצ׳׳ל ומגדל עוז והגהות מימונייות ופירוש רבינו עובדי והרב המוסמך מדר׳׳ל ן׳ חביב על הלכות קידוש החדש ×¢× כל הצורות השייכות להלכות ×לו ולהלכות שבת וסוכה ×•×¢× מורה ×ž×§×•× על דברי הרב המגיד וכסף משנה ×’× שתי מפתחות גדולות ורחבות ×חת על סדר ×”×¤×¨×§×™× ×•×חת על דרך ××œ×¤× ביתה ×œ× חסר דבר מכל כפי ×שר נדפס ב××ž×©×˜×¨×“× Rabbi Moses Maimonides the Rambam was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure both during his lifetime and after his death he is generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah his only work not in Arabic still carries canonical authority particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community as the codification of Talmudic law. His other works include "Kitab al-Siraj" a commentary on the Mishnah "Kitab al-Fara'I" a book on precepts and the celebrated philosophical work "Dalalat al-Ha'irin" known in Hebrew as the "Moreh Nevukhim" The Guide to the Perplexed. In this latter work Maimonides attempted a philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages. Bi-defus Yisrael bar Avraham hardcover books
1876réf. 266001Paris: Imprimerie de J. Claye 1876. First edition one of 500 copies. 118 engraved plates. 3 vols. 4to. Contemporary half velum and decorated paper boards red morocco spine labels. Light soiling to covers sporadic foxing an attractive set. Large etched bookplate of Gustav Frid in each volume. First edition one of 500 copies. 118 engraved plates. 3 vols. 4to. A beautiful uncut set of this landmark work on the history of the violin. "This is beyond the possibility of doubt the greatest work ever published or which is ever likely to be published on the violin" Fidiculus Bibliographia. Fidiculus Bibliographia 191 Imprimerie de J. Claye unknown books
1948réf. 57819New York 1948. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Fine. Vintage silver print docketed on verso by Van Vechten "Gore Vidal / IX ff 5 / Oct 14 - '48"; and with the studio stamp "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten/146 Central Park West/Cannot be reproduced without permission". 1 vols. 8-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. Very early photographic portrait of the 23-year-old Vidal taken in the year that the publication of his controversial novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR scandalized the mainstream press. unknown books
1948réf. 218953New York 1948. Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. Fine. Verso docketed with holograph notations in ink giving the name of the sitter date of the photograph and Van Vechten's reference to negative and print "XV-FF-1". Variant of portrait published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten 1978 edited by Saul Mauriber. Seated on chair leaning forward. 1 vols. 32.2 x 2 21.8 cm. approx 12-5/8 x 8-1/2 inches. unknown books
