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1967réf. 125449Boston: Little Brown and Company 1967. First edition of the final volume in Vidal's Narratives of Empire his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the second title page "Valerie from Gore 1968." 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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheridan Germann. An exceptional association. Washington D.C. is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empirehis acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. "Washington D.C. may well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital" said The New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement deemed it "a prodigiously skilled and clever performance. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
1982réf. 125211New York: Random House 1982. First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo original half 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 Jack Ribik. An exceptional association. This collection of essays includes Vidal's noted pieces on Theodore Roosevelt F. Scott Fitzgerald Edmund Wilson and on the need for a new constitutional convention and ranges across a wide spectrum of social political and literary matters. Random House hardcover
1992réf. 126011Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Valerie love Gore Vidal." The recipient Valerie Vidal was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association. Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. At age ten the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor. Yet it was movies about history albeit history as brought to life on the silver screen that he remembers most vividly from his youth. Movies such as Roman Scandals The Prince and the Pauper and Fire Over England in his words "opened for me that door to the past where I have spent so much of my life-long present." Author of Burr Lincoln and other best-selling novels chronicling our experience Vidal shows how history and fiction blend in the private and public worlds of his generation. In Screening History he intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington D.C. boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has Vidal--a scion of one of our oldest political families--revealed so much about his own life or written with such marvelous immediacy about the real and imagined forces that have shaped America in the twentieth century. We see Vidal witnessing history as his grandfather is sworn in for a fourth Senate term during the Depression; we see him making history as a young airman of ten flying a Hammond Y-1 under the watchful eye of his father FDR's Director of Aviation; and we journey back with him to America in the 1930s and 1940s to theaters with names like the Belasco and the Metropolitan where the history screened for the nation's moviegoers often turned reality into fantasy or into downright propaganda. Screening History is rich with anecdotes about Vidal's eminent family and shrewd insights about prominent figures known and observed. It captures the hold that movies have had on the American imagination and the mark they left on the mind of a youngster who grew up to become one of our best-known and most controversial literary figures. At times poignant often bitingly funny this is Gore Vidal at his best inscribing his views on the American political scene from FDR to George Bush and on issues from the writing of history to the inability of movies to set history straight. Harvard University Press hardcover
1950réf. 126599New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1950. First edition of this “well-written work” Kirkus. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Valerie from Gore June 1954." 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. Near fine in a very good dust jacket which was laminated by Vidal. An exceptional association. Dark Green Bright Red is a novel by Gore Vidal concerning a revolution headed by a former military dictator in an unnamed Central American republic. It drew upon Vidal's experiences living in Guatemala during the Guatemalan Revolution. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1992réf. 126598New York: Random House 1992. First edition of this novel by the award-winning author. Octavo original half 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. An exceptional association. Random House hardcover
1950réf. 126014New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1950. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper "Marie from Gore- all best wishes 1950." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Gore Vidal's story of the faithful troubadour Blondel's search for Richard the Lionheart kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade. It interweaves historical characters with giants dragons werewolves libidinous ladies of the manor and a very nasty vampire. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1962réf. 126579New York: Little Brown and Company 1962. First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning novelist. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author "Valerie -- with semi-fraternal best wishes & God-paternal blessings for Christmas '62. 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. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket laminated by Vidal. An exceptional association. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
1985réf. 126474New York: Summit Books 1985. First edition of this wonderful overview of Venice. Quarto original cloth illustrated. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Valerie from 1/2 brother Gore Vidal." 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 near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Karen Katz. Edited by George Armstrong. Photographs by Tore Gill. An exceptional association. The award-winning author offers his personal impressions of Venice recounts its long history and describes the paintings sculpture and architecture of the city. Summit Books hardcover
1992réf. 11422Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1992. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo. Frontis. 97 pp. illus. Uncorrected proof bound in light blue card covers. Some fading to spine else a fine copy. Proof title reads "The Screening of History" but book was published as "Screening History". Harvard University Press unknown
2003réf. 10325New Haven: Yale University Press 2003. First Edition. Cloth-backed Bds. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 198 pp. Inscribed and signed by Vidal on the title-page. Head and foot of spine lightly bruised on both dustjacket and book but a near fine copy nonetheless. Scarce with signature. Yale University Press unknown
1820réf. 318534London: Ackermann 1820. Facsimile done in October 1944 at Mitchell's English Bookstore. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco and cloth sides a.e.g. by Truslove & Hanson Sloane St. Fine. Facsimile done in October 1944 at Mitchell's English Bookstore. 8vo. Ackermann unknown
2014réf. __1137322276Palgrave Macmillan 2014. Paperback. New. 358 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. Palgrave Macmillan paperback
2017réf. __3330098481Editorial Académica Española 2017. Paperback. New. 160 pages. Spanish language. 8.66x5.91x0.37 inches. Editorial Académica Española paperback
2020réf. x-022671036XUniv of Chicago Pr 2020. Paperback. New. 432 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.20 inches. Univ of Chicago Pr paperback
2013réf. x-0812245512Univ of Pennsylvania Pr 2013. Hardcover. New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.25 inches. Univ of Pennsylvania Pr hardcover
réf. 113366Random House New York. 1990. First edition. 8vo 437pp. A near fine hardback copy in like slipcase. Number 145 of 200 copies signed by the author. Random House, New York. 1990 hardcover
2014réf. x-0520279298Univ of California Pr 2014. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 308 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Univ of California Pr paperback
2001réf. x-0202306402Aldine De Gruyter 2001. Paperback. New. 268 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. Aldine De Gruyter paperback
2003réf. x-0226136817Univ of Chicago Pr 2003. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 526 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. Univ of Chicago Pr paperback
2006réf. x-0521527449Cambridge Univ Pr 2006. Paperback. New. 267 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr paperback
2010réf. x-0521141923Cambridge Univ Pr 2010. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 364 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr paperback
2011réf. x-9401074224Springer Verlag 2011. Paperback. New. 606 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.22 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
2010réf. x-0814333885Wayne State Univ Pr 2010. Paperback. New. n edition. 280 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.25 inches. Wayne State Univ Pr paperback
2003réf. x-0804748594Stanford Univ Pr 2003. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. Stanford Univ Pr paperback
2019réf. x-0807171115Louisiana State Univ Pr 2019. Hardcover. New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Louisiana State Univ Pr hardcover
