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1997rif. 584573London: Andre Deutsch 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 245pp. Pages lightly age toned else fine in a fine dust jacket with faint toning on the spine. Includes essays on Edmund Wilson Dawn Powell Sinclair Lewis Anthony Burgess FDR Truman Clinton-Gore and more. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1988rif. 591809New York: Random House 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1974rif. 207551974. LGBTQ Transgender Vidal Gore. Myron. New York Random House 1974. Signed in purple ink by author on title page. First edition. 244 pages. Original navy blue binding with "GV" stamped in gilt on cover and author title and published stamped on spine. Original dustjacket in good condition. Myron is the 1974 sequel to Vidal's groundbreaking 1968 novel Myra Breckinridge one of the first American novels to feature a transgender protagonist. This twisting gender-bending narrative follows the same protagonist after the events of Myra Breckinridge when they have returned to their neutered male persona Myron. While watching TV one night Myron finds himself transported into the 1948 film Siren of Babylon a chaotic world where Myra threatens to take over again. In the introduction to the book Vidal speaks out against the landmark 1973 Miller vs. California case in which the Supreme Court ruled that obscene and pornographic materials are not protected by the First Amendment and may be banned by governmental authority saying "Chief Justice Warren Burger admitted that although no link has been found between the consumption of pornography and anti-social behavior any community may assume that such a connection exists if it wants to - in other words an outraged community may burn a witch even though properly speaking witches do not exist." In an sardonic attempt to preclude himself from such a witch hunt Vidal replaced the "dirty" words in the novel with the names of the concurring Supreme Court justices and anti-pornography activists Father Morton Hill and Edward Keating to "revitalize a language gone stale and inexact from too much 'burgering' around with meaning." Some light dampstaining to dustjacket. Overall very good condition. First edition novel dealing with transexuality and gender-fluidity signed by celebrated author and free speech activist Gore Vidal. unknown books
1992rif. 567580New York: Columbia University Press 1992. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. 321pp. Light crease to one corner else fine. A collection of critical essays. Columbia University Press unknown books
1970rif. 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
1997rif. 562023London: Andre Deutsch 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Pages lightly age-toned front hinge starting else near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Collection of essays. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1952rif. 529858New York: E.P. Dutton 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Jacket art by Lester Kohs. Lightly toned pages in first half of book binding slightly cocked very good in a moderately rubbed about very good dust jacket with several chips and tears and interior tape repairs at the flap folds. The first of three mysteries featuring New York City public relations manager Peter Cutler Sargeant II. The other two being Death Before Bedtime and Death Likes It Hot. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1972rif. 463681New York / Amherst: Mulch Press 1972. Softcover. Very Good. First simultaneous paperback edition. 58pp. Drawings by Basil King. Translated by Paul Blackburn. Introduction by George Economou. Corners creased faint stains and sticker offsetting on wrappers very good. Mulch Press unknown books
1990rif. 412805New York: Vintage Books / Random House 1990. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Pages lightly age-toned light wrinkle on front lamination a very good copy. Vintage Books / Random House unknown books
1987rif. 371991New York: Dramatists Play Service 1987. Softcover. Fine. Acting edition. Wrappers. Fine. Dramatists Play Service unknown books
1972rif. 365513New York: Random House 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Slightly bowed with some spotting else very good in a near fine dustwrapper with some toning on the flaps. Inscribed by the author. Random House hardcover books
1991rif. 368886New York: The Armchair Detective Library 1991. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus. Fine in a very good slipcase with slight spotting. Copy X of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. The Armchair Detective Library hardcover books
1956rif. 354048New York: The Zero Press 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First edition. Very good with a cocked spine in a poor dustwrapper with a tanned spine a few tears and light dampstaining. Signed by the author. The Zero Press hardcover books
1956rif. 275612New York: The New American Library 1956. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with a few small tears in the lamination of the wrappers. The New American Library unknown books
1989rif. 46937New York: Random House 1989. Softcover. Fine. Advance Excerpt. Fine in wrappers. Contributors include: Gore Vidal Stephanie Vaughn Paul Pickering Ann Beattie V.S. Pritchett Pete Davies and Anthony Burgess. Random House unknown books
1820rif. 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 books
rif. 304950Paris: chez vidal. MATTED. Provenance: Comte O. Benhague 1827 or 1828-1879 Lugt 2004: Cortlandt Bishop Lugt 2770b. chez vidal unknown books
1950rif. 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
1876rif. 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
1929rif. 5910Paris: Société des Editions Militaires 1929. First Edition one of 50 copies on vélin teinté total edition of 515. 19 of 20 hand-colored plates after watercolors by Leroux. 1 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers with a few tears and slight chipping normal for a large book bound thus otherwise a near fine copy. In cloth sliding case. Leroux Pierre Albert. First Edition one of 50 copies on vélin teinté total edition of 515. 19 of 20 hand-colored plates after watercolors by Leroux. 1 vols. 4to. Superbly illustrated history of the role artillery in the French army throughout the ages with magnificent hand-colored plates. Société des Editions Militaires unknown books
1889rif. 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
1948rif. 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
1948rif. 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
1742rif. 245540Madrid: Por Manuel Fernandez 1742. 28 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Laid into later Venetian Calf portfolio. 28 pp. 8vo. Por Manuel Fernandez unknown books
1956rif. 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 books
