1925Best.-Nr. 16756JLondon: Collins 1925. First Edition. Gore Vidal’s copy from his library in Italy with his engraved bookplate depicting his home LaRondinaia in Ravello. With the estate ink stamp “From the Library of Gore Vidal” on the front flyleaf. The book is foxed otherwise very good. Books with Vidal’s Italian bookplate are scarce. Collins unknown
1957Best.-Nr. 16652JCulver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer February 28 1957. Original 129 page mimeographed shooting script entitled Captain Dreyfus written by Gore Vidal. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Very good. Enclosed in a custom morocco leather and cloth clamshell box. Directed by and starring José Ferrer as Captain Alfred Dreyfus Anton Walbrook Viveca Lindfors Leo Genn Emlyn Williams David Farrar Donald Wolfit Herbert Lom Harry Andrews Felix Aylmer George Coulouris Peter Illing Michael Hordern. In 1894 Alfred Dreyfus José Ferrer a Jewish captain in the French Army is falsely accused of treason. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy an infantry officer of Hungarian descent helps in the investigation. When he is found to be the real spy the French Army tries to hide the truth by exonerating the traitor in a mock trial. Émile Zola the famous French author writes an open letter to the prime minister of France entitled I Accuse! which reveals the truth behind the cover up. The letter is published in the newspaper causing a firestorm around the world leading to a re-examination of the entire Dreyfus case. Eventually Esterhazy makes a full confession and Dreyfus is completely exonerated being inducted into the French Legion of Honor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hardcover
Best.-Nr. B9780349120454Paperback / softback. New. A new accessible selection of brilliant and essential reading from one of America's modern masters paperback
Best.-Nr. B9780349115283Paperback / softback. New. In this latest collection of essays Gore Vidal displays unparalleled range and inimitable style as he deals with matters literary historical personal and political. Nobody makes the fur fly in a more elegant and civilised fashion than Gore Vodal. He is our indispensable man. paperback
Best.-Nr. B9780349103624Paperback / softback. New. An hilarious novel about the art of writing itself paperback
Best.-Nr. B9780557453023Hardback. New. Set amid the turmoil of the Albigensian Crusade in thirteenth century France THE NIGHT'S DARK SHADE tells of heresy versus orthodoxy and of forbidden love versus fidelity. Heiress of her father's estates in Auvergne the orphaned Lady Raphaelle leaves her home to marry a nobleman in a remote castle in the Pyrenees. There she encounters the mysterious Cathar sect who challenge all of her most deeply held beliefs. As she seeks the path of her true calling she discovers hatred and betrayal as well as abiding friendship and unexpected love. "From the first page Vidal draws the reader into a vibrant world of action and emotion. Raphaelle de Miramande is an engaging young heroine bravely facing physical and moral dangers and dilemmas in search of truth and love. Vidal's novel captures the spirit of the Middle Ages." Stephanie A. Mann author of SUPREMACY AND SURVIVAL "A harrowing and engrossing journey." Catherine Delors author of MISTRESS OF THE REVOLUTION hardcover
Best.-Nr. B9780349112671Paperback / softback. New. The very best of Gore Vidal's fiction and non-fiction including for eg correspondence with Jackie Kennedy. paperback
1989Best.-Nr. 21136ENew York: Michael di Capua Books / Farrar Straus and Giroux 1989. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. 408 pages. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. with some minor edge wear. A compilation of material by Christopher Isherwood drawing on eight of his books spanning a period of forty-two years from 1938 to 1980. Michael di Capua Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown
1996Best.-Nr. 21195ENew York: Da Capo 1996. Revised & Expanded Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author Joseph McBride to Gore Vidal: “For Gore Vidal best wishes always Joe McBride April 30 1996.” From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. The book is totally rewritten and illustrated with a number of photographs published here for the first time. Fine copy in printed wrappers. Da Capo unknown
1997Best.-Nr. 21190EBoston: Godine 1997. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Preface by Kurt Vonnegut. Introduction by Trudy Butner Krisher. With a two-page section for Gore Vidal; one of Vidal on the Today Show with Barbara Walters in New York 1974 and the other of him in an informal setting in London 1972. Oversized. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a trace of edge wear. A collection of more than a hundred black & white photographic portraits of leading modern writers including Tennessee Williams Rex Stout Janet Flanner John Updike Anais Nin Joan Didion Thornton Wilder Edward Albee Vladimir Nabokov Pablo Neruda Toni Morrison James Baldwin Kurt Vonnegut and more. Godine unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 21193ENew York: Twayne Publishers 1968. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. This is the very first study of Vidal’s work and includes this from Ray White’s opening paragraph of his Acknowledgments: “First I thank Gore Vidal for answering my many questions giving me access to his personal papers and letting me quote from unpublished material and published works for which he owns copyright.” Near fine copy with a hint of use in a used dust jacket with a 6” tear to the rear spine fold and across the spine some faint rubbing and dust soiling and small chips. A critical survey of the life and works of Gore Vidal whose published works available at the time of this book include the novels The City and the Pillar The Judgment of Paris Messiah Julian Washington D.C.; the plays Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays The Best Man: A Play About Politics and more. Twayne Publishers unknown
2003Best.-Nr. 21191ENew York: Abrams 2003. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Oversized 132 pages. Gore Vidal is in a photograph in the company of Tennessee Williams Donald Windham Buffie Johnson Tanaquil Le Clereq and Virginia Reed at Cafe Nicholson 1949 the occasion of which Vidal begins his introduction. This photograph appeared in the first issue of the short-lived magazine Flair edited by American writer and artist Fleur Cowles. A black & white photographic portrait of artistic and literary life in the post-war mid-century years featuring the work of photographer Karl Bissinger including images of Truman Capote Carson McCullers Collette Henry Miller Aldous Huxley James Baldwin John Ford Jean Renoir Jean Cocteau Marlon Brando Gary Cooper Agnes de Mille and many more. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. with a 1 3/4” label affixed to the spine printed with “Introduction Gore Vidal”. Abrams unknown
1997Best.-Nr. 21025EWestport CT: Greenwood Press 1997. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. 215 pages. Fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Includes references to Gore Vidal’s historical novels; Julian 1964 Creation 1981 Burr 1973 Lincoln !984 1876 1976 and Empire 1987 Hollywood 1990 and Washington D.C. 1967 and “Vidal’s Inventions”; Two Sisters 1970 Myra Breckinridge 1968 and Myron 1974 Kalki 1978 Duluth 1983 and Live from Golgotha 1992. With some brief biographical information a bibliography and index. With a certificate of authenticity from the distributor of the Gore Vidal library. Greenwood Press unknown
1982Best.-Nr. 21017ENew York: Knopf 1982. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. Illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The story of the many struggles to form the Screen Writers Guild as told through the voices of the writers directors actors producers and political figures on both sides of the battle including Dorothy Parker Ring Lardner Jr. Budd Schulberg Charles Brackett Jack Warner Lillian Hellman Ronald Reagan Darryl Zanuck Orson Welles Sen. Joe McCarthy and more. With a certificate of authenticity from the distributor of the Gore Vidal library. Knopf unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 21014ENew York: Twayne Publishers 1968. First Edition - Paperbound. From the estate of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. This is the paperbound edition which was issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition. Very good lightly used copy with some fading to the spine in printed wrappers. A critical survey of the life and works of Gore Vidal whose published works available at the time of this book include the novels The City and the Pillar The Judgment of Paris Messiah Julian Washington D.C.; the plays Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays The Best Man: A Play About Politics and more. With a certificate of authenticity from the distributor of the Gore Vidal library. Twayne Publishers hardcover
1968Best.-Nr. 21012ENew York: Twayne Publishers 1968. First Edition. Signed by the author Ray Lewis White to Gore Vidal: “For Gore Vidal a fine subject. Ray White 11/19/68.” This is the very first study of Vidal’s work and includes this from Ray White’s opening paragraph of his Acknowledgments: “First I thank Gore Vidal for answering my many questions giving me access to his personal papers and letting me quote from unpublished material and published works for which he owns copyright.” Near fine copy with a hint of use in a lightly used dust jacket with some faint rubbing and dust soiling and a few small chips and tears. A critical survey of the life and works of Gore Vidal whose published works available at the time of this book include the novels The City and the Pillar The Judgment of Paris Messiah Julian Washington D.C.; the plays Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays The Best Man: A Play About Politics and more. With a certificate of authenticity from the distributor of the Gore Vidal library. Twayne Publishers unknown
1981Best.-Nr. 9066ENew York: Random House 1981. First Edition. One of an undetermined number of copies signed by Gore Vidal on a special page bound in by the publisher. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Random House unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 9375JNew York: Random House 1970. First Edition. Review copy with the publisher’s dated notice laid in. Upper corners slightly bumped else fine in a fine dust jacket. Random House unknown
1952Best.-Nr. 11020JNew York: Dutton 1952. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with one interior mend and a few tiny tears and chips. One of Gore Vidal’s mystery novels published under the pseudonym Edgar Box. Dutton unknown
1979Best.-Nr. 9097ELos Angeles: Paramount 1979. First Edition. 134 page first draft screenplay. Xerox sheets bound with brads for an unproduced feature film version not the later TV miniseries based upon the best seller of the same name by Lucian Truscott. Near fine. Paramount unknown
1974Best.-Nr. 9416JNew York: Radnom House 1974. First Edition. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Fresh copy. Radnom House unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 8414JNew York: Dutton 1953. First Edition. One of Vidal’s mystery novels published under a pseudonym. Small stain at head of last blank in text otherwise very good in a very good dust jacket with some edge tears and creases with a small chip at crest of spine. Dutton unknown
Best.-Nr. 0349110727.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1984Best.-Nr. mon0002844085Random House 1984-05-12. Hardcover. Good. 1.9000 9.1000 6.4000. SIGNED by the author. Flat signature. A copy that's been read with wear and creases to the jacket and pages. Fading has occurred on the jacket. Random House hardcover
1945Best.-Nr. 29045Rio de Janeiro: Gráfica Olímpica Editora 1945. Paperback. Good. Octavo wraps 331 p. b/w plates facsims. ports. photos notes. Moderate wear to wraps former owner's name inscribed to first three pages. Biography of Getúlio Vargas 1883-1954. With several pages of black and white plate photographs portraits and facsimilar documents. Gráfica Olímpica Editora paperback
