Vidal, GoreABAA
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1987réf. 30250New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394561236 . First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with light soiling to page edges in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; Empire the fourth novel in Gore Vidal's monumental six-volume chronicle of the American past is his prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century as it begins to emerge as a world power. While America struggles to define its destiny beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. From the back offices of her Washington newspaper Caroline confronts the two men who threaten to thwart her ambition: William Randolph Hearst and his protégé Blaise Sanford Caroline's half brother. In their struggles for power the lives of brother and sister become intertwined with those of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt as well as Astors Vanderbilts and Whitneys - all incarnations of America's Gilded Age; 8vo; FSA . Random House hardcover books
1987réf. 30249New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394561236 . First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with bookplate on front free end paper and minor foxing to top edge in alike dust-jacket with trivial edgewear and sunned spine; Empire the fourth novel in Gore Vidal's monumental six-volume chronicle of the American past is his prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century as it begins to emerge as a world power. While America struggles to define its destiny beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. From the back offices of her Washington newspaper Caroline confronts the two men who threaten to thwart her ambition: William Randolph Hearst and his protégé Blaise Sanford Caroline's half brother. In their struggles for power the lives of brother and sister become intertwined with those of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt as well as Astors Vanderbilts and Whitneys - all incarnations of America's Gilded Age; 8vo; FSA . Random House hardcover books
1990réf. 31235New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394576594 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; In Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s the lives of movie moguls and stars are exposed as they negotiate the cutthroat world of Hollywood. The novel follows the Ziegfeld Follies the first movie adaptation of the popular Broadway play and the rise of the silent film era.; 8vo . Random House hardcover books
2000réf. 14600New York: Doubleday Publishing. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385500750 . A most handsome unread first edition/first printing in As New condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Gore Vidal directly on the title page; Vidal's crowning achievement a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954 when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America once and for all for good or ill from a republic into an empire. In addition to presidents the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt Wendell Willkie William Randolph Hearst Dean Acheson Tennessee Williams - and Gore Vidal himself; 8vo; Signed by Author . Doubleday Publishing hardcover books
1992réf. 18204New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679416110 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket; This book tells the story of a man Christ from his crucifixion to his resurrection. It is a powerful and moving account of one man's life and death.; 8vo . Random House hardcover books
1935réf. 44611Montevideo: Editorial Don Bosco 1935. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. frontis portrait illustration photos 136 127p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. Spanish text. Biblioteca Uruguaya de Autores Catolicos Vol. 7. Editorial Don Bosco paperback books
1946réf. 60358La Habana 1946. Paperback. Good. errata slip laid in 189p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Cover browned/ Chipping and tears along top edge of cover. INSCRIBED by Rodriguez Vidal. Spanish text. Poetry. paperback books
1992réf. 61141Catalonia: Generalitat de Catalunya Comissio America i Catalunya 1992. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 335p. Original stiff wrapper. dj. 30cm. Catalan text. Generalitat de Catalunya Comissio America i Catalunya paperback books
1991réf. 349190New York: Noonday Press/FSG 1991. xix 408p. introduction excerpts from "Goodbye to Berlin" "Prater Violet" "Exhumations" and others first Noonday Press trade paperback edition stated bound in wraps. Very good condition. Noonday Press/FSG unknown books
1999réf. 349200New York: Random House 1999. xxx 988p. signed by Vidal on the first blank after front free endpaper introduction chronology bibliography first edition stated with the usual Random House 2 hardcover bound in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Random House unknown books
1993réf. 349197New York: Random House 1993. 1295p. signed at the title page by Vidal first US edition stated with number line ending in 2 as called for in Zempel & Verkler hardcover bound in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Random House unknown books
1984réf. 349196New York: Random House 1984. Hardcover. 657p. hardcover reprint bound in cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket signed by Vidal on the title page in very good condition. Random House hardcover books
1986réf. 349214New York: Random House 1986. x 417p. introduction two novels first edition stated hardcover bound in quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. First US republication of "Myra Breckinridge" since the 1970s. Omnibus edition of the novel with her sequel or prequel. Random House unknown books
2015réf. 349226New York: Doubleday 2015. xii 464p. large Literary Society bookplate signed by the author Parini as well as a personal inscription signed by him introduction conclusion postscript notes index illustrated with two glossy b&w photo sections hardcover first edition first printing stated bound in quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dust jacket. Doubleday unknown books
1985réf. 349124New York: Summit Books 1985. 160p. 8x10.75 inches signed on the half-title page by Vidal profusely illustrated. with Gill's color photography first US edition hardcover bound in buckram cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Summit Books unknown books
1999réf. 67112New York: Doubleday 1999. xi 850p. 24p. photos hardcover first edition first printing stated bound in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Doubleday unknown books
1985réf. 30727New York: Summit Books 1985. 160p. 8x10.75 inches profusely illustrated. with Gill's color photography first US edition hardcover bound in buckram cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Summit Books unknown books
1990réf. 33325New York: Random House 1990. 437p. signed by the author at the half-title page first edition stated first printing with number line ending in 2 as called for with Random House titles of the period Verkler and Zempel hardcover bound in cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Random House unknown books
1986réf. 34472New York: New Directions 1986. xxv 574p. book plate hardcover first edition bound in blue cloth boards pages a bit toned unclipped dust jacket. New Directions unknown books
1992réf. 440030Cambride Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 96pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1949réf. 50381London: John Lehmann 1949. First UK edition. Hardcover. very good -. Octavo. 270pp. Original brown cloth gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Spine a bit faded and dulled. Vidal's third novel which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character Vidal 1925-2012 in this novel used what he called a "flat gray naturalistic style." The novel became a sensation but received generally negative reviews. In 1974 he explained to The Paris Review that "Tactically if not aesthetically this was for a good reason. Up until then homosexuality in literature was always exotic. I wanted to deal with an absolutely ordinary all-American lower-middle-class young man and his world. To show the dead-on "normality" of the homosexual experience. John Lehmann hardcover books
1999réf. 26489Palma Mallorca: Lleonard Muntaner 1999. First edition. Softcover. vg. Octavo. 123 3pp. Original illustrated wrappers with printer's device on front cover and title-page. Frontispiece. Title-page in red and black lettering. Scarce and fascinating work being a compilation of several historical works presented by various specialists at the conference on Jewish converts in the Balears at the time of the discovery of America. The meeting was organized by the Institut de Relacions Culturals Balears-Israel in May 1992. This work is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions of portraits and documents. Minor shelf wear on wrappers. Text in Catalan. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. Lleonard Muntaner unknown books
1964réf. 190676Boston: Little Brown & Co 1964. 503p. endpaper maps signed by the author at top-corner of first free blank hardcover first edition stated bound in blue-gray cloth boards gilt and unclipped edgeworn dustjacket with a short tears and scratches on the back panel otherwise in very good condition. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1988réf. 1393919New York NY: Random House 1988. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo viii 303 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Off-white spine with green and brown lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price uncut "$18.95" has mild age toning along the edges and mild shelving wear. Boards are slightly warped small discoloration along the rear tail edge mild bending wear along the spine head/tail. textblock has foxing along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1393919. Special Collections - Downstairs. Random House hardcover books
1982réf. 1393921New York NY: Random House 1982. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 278 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with red and yellow lettering Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price uncut "$15.00" has tears along the rear head edge and spine head/tail and mild age toning along the edges. Boards are slightly cocked and has mild discoloration along the spine. Textblock has an ink mark on page 112 light stains on pages 45 178-179 and 191 adhesive wear on the front pastedown page and foxing along the pastedown pages end-pages and edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. DL consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1393921. Special Collections - Downstairs. Random House hardcover books
