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1986Best.-Nr. 64114US: Random House 1986. First Edition second printing. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . First Edition Second Printing. Beautiful quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards with gilt particulars and publisher's emblem to spine and debossed decoration to front board. Previous owner's library sticker to first free endpaper; otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Red sharpie mark to top edge; otherwise text block is clean. Boards are clean with light wear to extremities; headcap is lightly bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean with light tanning to rear cover; light curling to edges and ends of spine. Random House hardcover
1999Best.-Nr. 181342Cologne: Konemann 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 259p. An oversize hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Full-page color photographs and essays on bullfighting. Measures approx. 12.7" x 11 Konemann hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 130517Lisbon: Agencia Geral Das C. 1940. 419p. A hardcover book in good condition. Rebound. Ex-library: number painted on spine library slip on endpaper stamp on title page and page edges. Otherwise clean and tight. Includes fold-out map. Text in Portuguese. Agencia Geral Das C. unknown
2003Best.-Nr. alys107New York: Harry N. Abrams 2003. 2003. folio. pp. 132 10. Profusely illus. in b/w. many full-page. bds. dw. First Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. [New York]: Harry N. Abrams, [2003]. Hardcover
2009Best.-Nr. 1240229.01Frances Lincoln Ltd. London 2009. Hardcover. As New. Folio hardcover. No dj. As new. Slipcased. No wear inside or out: crisp clean - pristine. Includes stereo viewer. Signed not inscribed by Queen founding member author Brian May and author Elena Vidal on the title page. Frances Lincoln Ltd., London hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. 6545New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1947. Very Good/Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1947. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on title page. Octavo; 216pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Black coated boards with gold spine lettering. Unclipped jacket flaps were once glued to pastedowns. Large chips missing on all jacket edges; bottom quarter of jacket spine is AWOL. Back surface of jacket is soiled; flaps foxed probably triggered by previous paste. Jacket now stabilized in mylar. Front and rear endpapers foxed. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown; Brentano's stamp on front free endpaper. Impressions left in front free endpaper by some heavy-handed scrawling now largely erased. Black cloth binding scuffed. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 6232Buenos Aires London: Editorial Viau SRL R. Ackermann 1943. Very Good. Buenos Aires: Editorial Viau SRL 1943; facsimile of volume originally published by R. Ackermann in London in 1820. Limited Reprint Edition of 3470 of which this is No.1489. Quarto; xxviii 115pp. Twenty-five full-color watercolors reproduced on 24 bound-in plates including four landscape-format fold-out plates. Broché in cream cardstock with front cover reproducing original 1820 allegorical frame in brown. Nude spine. Binding toned minimally soiled all corners politely abraded. Spine paper flaking and showing six vertical cracks but holding well. About one third of back cover detached at joint but still stably connected. All illustrations present with bright colors and without misfolds; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Vidal was a British naval officer and talented watercolorist. His work is celebrated for the enlightened conspectus of landscape cityscape social mores financial structures and multiple demographic and social classes he sought to describe. His watercolors-all clear handsome and informative-avoid the predictably picturesque to show without condescension what was striking and different about lives in Argentina. The overall tone of both images and text is documentary; the overall result is far more enlightening than the usual colonial travelogue. Editorial Viau SRL [R. Ackermann] unknown
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2003Best.-Nr. IYC133407New Haven & London: Yale University Press 2003. 1st. h/b. Fine 1st edition 1st printing signed to title unclipped d/j in protective sleeve blue clothbound boards gilt spine titling bright; text block firm untrimmed pages crisp and unmarked. 8vo 230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"". Gore Vidal one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In ""Inventing a Nation"" Vidal transports the reader into the minds the living rooms and bedrooms the convention halls and the salons of Washington Jefferson Adams and others. We come to know these men their opinions of each other their worries about money and their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Yale University Press hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. t959cYbuversutatus Gregiruabae 1933. Book. Good. Cloth. First edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Type: Book Type: Book Good copy in green cloth cover. Attractively rebound by previous owner. Interior good. Personal stamp of previous owner on title page. Ybuversutatus Gregiruabae Hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. 3338Easton Press 2000. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. New/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome black leather Collector's Edition signed by the author on the signature page. In as new condition in the original shrinkwrap. The story of the much-maligned Revolutionary War hero Vice President and Founding Father who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. By the American master of historical fiction author of over 40 volumes of novels essays and plays. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. Includes the Publisher's Note and Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press. A beautiful copy. Easton Press unknown
1995Best.-Nr. IYC133329London: Andr Deutsch 1995. 1st. h/b. Fine as new signed to title. 8vo 230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"". This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC in the household of his grandfather the blind senator from Oklahoma T.P. Gore and in the various domestic situations of his complicated and exasperating mother Nina. Then come schooldays at St Albans and Exeter; the army; life as a literary wunderkind in New York London Rome and Paris in the '40s and '50s; sex in an age of promiscuity; and a campaign for Congress in 1960. His cast includes Tennessee Williams the Kennedys Eleanor Roosevelt Truman Capote Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Christopher Isherwood Jack Kerouac Jane and Paul Bowles Santayana Anais Nin Norman Mailer Leonard Bernstein and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor among others. Andr Deutsch unknown
1954Best.-Nr. 372612NY: E. P. Dutton & Company 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a dust jacket that's unclipped $3.50 but has some edgewear. Stated First Edition. SIGNED BY VIDAL on title page dated "1991 LA". Record # 372612 E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1978Best.-Nr. 613409Los Angeles: Vidal Sassoon Inc. 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 169 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Original receipt from Vidal Sassoon Shop in London England laid-in. Book has damp odor. Light foxing to edges. Light wear. Record # 613409 Vidal Sassoon Inc. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 603087New York: E. P. Dutton and Company Inc. 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. 222 pages. Black cloth. Ex-library with stamp on front endpaper. Tape on inside flap of dust jacket and inside cover of book - front and rear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean unmarked text. Record # 603087 E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 998764London: Holland Press 1961 Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Quarto. Volume 1 only. In French. Facsimile reprint of work first published in 1876-78. Has all the usual ex-library markings: stamps on edges of text stamps and pocket on end sheets; label on spine. Jacket has several small tears especially at tail of spine; label on jacket spine; bar code on rear jacket. Jacket flaps are taped to end sheets. Text is clean and binding is tight. London: Holland Press, 1961 hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 231120-5SIGNED. LEATHER BOUND. Franklin Library limited edition leather bound signed by author. Seems unread. TIght square spine clean crisp pages no writing or marks no folded page corners. Covers are clean corners are unworn. The Franklin Library hardcover
1983Best.-Nr. 313194NY: RANDOM HOUSE. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0394527380 . SIGNED by Gore Vidal on title page. Fine infine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . RANDOM HOUSE. hardcover
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1947Best.-Nr. 3117188New York: Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very close to fine dust jacket. 216pp. 6" X 8 1/4" Hint of faint shelf-wear at crest of spine on jacket with single clear tape mend on blank reverse. Author's SECOND novel. From the Burton Weiss collection. GC; 6" x 8 1/4"; 216 pages . Dutton hardcover
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