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1969ref. 1393937Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 255 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$5.95" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the corners and spine head and tail edges and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and mild age-toning along the extremities. Textblock is lightly splitting to gutter from the half-title page to page 14 has stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and light foxing along the head edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393937. Special Collections - Upstairs. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2015ref. 66508London: Titan Books 2015. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Printing. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Titan Books hardcover books
1968ref. 322745New York: Signet 1968. Paperback. 144p. very good first printing thus mass-market paperback in pictorial wraps. Signet P3602. Vidal's first novel written at 20 after serving in the Aleutians in the Army. Williwaw is a Native American word for a big and sudden wind. Originally published as "Williwaw" in 1946 by Dutton in hardcover and then by Signet in 1953 as "Dangerous Voyage" in mass-market paperback. Here republished with original title. Signet paperback books
1987ref. 591810New York: Random House 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
2003ref. 567120New York: Harry N. Abrams 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Quarto. Binding and first couple of leaves cocked thus very good in a somewhat edgeworn very good dust jacket with a short cover tear. The images are nicely reproduced and fine. Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1956ref. 564225New York: Ballantine Books 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Edited by Gore Vidal. 250pp. Inked number on front fly binding slightly loose spine lightly tanned corners and spine ends rubbed very good lacking the dust jacket. Includes the first book appearance of Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet as well as notable teleplays by Paddy Chayefsky Reginald Rose Tad Mosel Robert Alan Aurthur Horton Foote Rod Serling and J.P. Miller. Ballantine Books hardcover books
1973ref. 548884Taiwan: no publisher 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Chinese pirate edition. A couple small stains on two pages affecting a bit of text light soiling on front endpapers tears along the front joint very good in a very good dust jacket with a few nicks and short tears. [no publisher] hardcover books
1960ref. 536526Boston: Little Brown and Company 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Faint spotting on the top page edge else near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing creasing and shallow chips. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1956ref. 504589New York: Ballantine Books 1956. Softcover. Very Good. First edition paperback original. Edited by Gore Vidal. 250pp. Pages slightly age-toned front wrap separated from text block with a 2" tear at bottom of spine rear wrap with a small tear at foredge still very good or better. Includes the first book appearance of Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet as well as notable teleplays by Paddy Chayefsky Reginald Rose Tad Mosel Robert Alan Aurthur Horton Foote Rod Serling and J.P. Miller. Ballantine Books unknown books
1989ref. 354053New York: Random House 1989. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good only in wrappers slightly bent with offsetting on the front wrap. Signed by Gore Vidal. Contains selections from works by Gore Vidal Stephanie Vaughn Paul Pickering Ann Beattie V.S. Pritchett Pete Davies and Anthony Burgess. Random House unknown books
1998ref. 70742Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1998. First edition. "Special Message" by Vidal for this edition. Signed by Vidal as issued. Frontispiece by Mark Rogalski. Gilt-stamped leather-covered boards all edges gilt satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Franklin Library Hardcover books
1949ref. 70610NY: Dutton 1949. First edition first prnt. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Rear board corners lightly bumped and faint small dampstain on foreedge; dustjacket with edgewear at spine ends corners and front panel bottom edge and toned red ink on the spine. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Vidal's fourth novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dutton Hardcover books
1992ref. 70611London: Andre Deutsch 1992. Hardcover. 232p. very good first UK edition in boards and unclipped dj. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1970ref. 35354Boston: Little Brown and Company 1970. Hardcover. 256p. very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped slightly edgeworn dj. Young 3939. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1987ref. 559937London: Andre Deutsch 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Early reprint of the English edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Vidal on the title page. A very nice copy. Andre Deutsch hardcover books
1972ref. 562040New York: Random House 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Light stains on topedges of pages very good in a very good dust jacket with front flap creased edges lightly rubbed. Random House hardcover books
1947ref. 350926Lima: Self-published by the author 1947. 21p. 6.25x8.25 inches text in Spanish lightly-worn and stained rusted staples essay pamphlet in blue stapled wraps. Pulgar Vidal was mainly a geographer and member of the National Congress at the time of this essay. The Aprista began as a Leftist organization but due to pressures from the USA shifted to an anti-communist right-wing group. Self-published by the author unknown books
1971ref. 17241New York: Pathfinder Press Inc 1971. First Edition. Staplebound. Good. First Edition. Staplebound. Published in 1971 Chicanas Speak Out includes the article "Women: New Voice of La Raza" by Mirta Vidal a statement by the organizer of the first National Chicana Conference Elma Barrera and workshop resolutions from the first National Chicana Conference attended by over 600 participants in Houston Texas in May 1971. This feminist pamphlet comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist theorist activist and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen 1950-2023. 8 1/2" X 5 3/8". 15pp. Mild wear to staplebound pictorial wraps with small tears to head and tail of spine and light foxing and dust soiling to wraps. Binding is sound. Light creasing and occasional smudge to pages else unmarked. Pathfinder Press, Inc unknown books
1998ref. 1409808New York: Modern Library 1998. First Modern Library Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xii 697 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is silver with black lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering price uncut: "$20.00." Mild general shelf wear. Bumping to dust jacket spine head and tail. Several scratches on back dust jacket cover. Small brown stain on top edge. Mild sagging to text block. Cocking to spine. Signed flat by Vidal on publisher's tipped-in page. Shelved in Case 7. 1409808. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Modern Library hardcover books
1966ref. 1411325New York: Grove Press 1966. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xv 165 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. White spine with black and orange titling. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover price uncut "$6.00" has general shelving wear. Boards and textblock have light general shelving wear. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. Shelved in Room A. 1411325. Special Collections - Upstairs. Grove Press hardcover books
1995ref. 576980New York: Random House 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 455pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slightly cocked spine else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light spotting. A nonlinear memoir by public intellectual Gore Vidal narrated from the Italian coast featuring well known American public figures such as Tennessee Williams the Kennedys and Eleanor Roosevelt. Random House hardcover books
1977ref. 562022New York: Random House 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Lacking the front fly edges of the boards lightly age-toned and rubbed very good in a near fine lightly age-toned dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1974ref. 012406New York: Random House 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 244pp Sharp Stated First Edition First Printing with number sequence to "2" as required by this publisher. Bound in black cloth with titles in silver and gold on spine and the author's initials in gold on front board. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Some toning to board edges and spine gilt is a bit faded. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket $6.95 has some toning to edges and faint creasing to flap edges. Still solid with no chipping or tears. Signed by the author on the title page. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price. Random House hardcover books
1977ref. 321567New York: Random House 1977. hardcover. good/very good. viii 285 pages. 8vo black cloth-backed boards d.w. dampstained sunned. New York: Random House 1977. Inscribed by author on title page: "Kit - all love Gore Vidal". Edges of covers sunned water warped/dampstained at upper right corner of text block -- otherwise internally clean and tight. A good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Random House unknown books
1976ref. 570161New York: Random House 1976. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Red wrappers. Slightly cocked spine toning and creasing thus very good. Random House unknown books
