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1969rif. 147266London: Winkast Film Productions 1969. First draft screenplay and copied second draft screenplay for an unproduced film from author Gore Vidal adapting his esteemed 1964 historical fiction novel "Julian." From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. Vidal's account of the life and murder of Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus "Julian" also known as Julian the Apostate. First draft screenplay: Black untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as 1ST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Gore Vidal. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two flat metal brads. Second draft screenplay: Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 15 July 1969 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Gore Vidal. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with prong binding. Winkast Film Productions unknown books
1978rif. 163316New York: Random House 1978. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. An about very good copy in red printed wrappers with publication information sheet affixed to the front cover some wear to the spine and some creasing to the corners and other minor wear. Uncommon in this format. Random House unknown books
1982rif. 163314New York: Random House 1982. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A very good copy in red printed wrappers with publication information written on the front cover and "April" on the bottom edge of the pages. Random House unknown books
1976rif. 144976Spain: Profilmes 1976. Collection of 25 vintage borderless photographs for the international release of the 1976 Spanish exploitation film. Also included in the original plain brown paper envelope and a glossy full color two sided flyer for the film featuring a synopsis in English French and Spanish. Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of a friend only to uncover a possible supernatural explanation in a young woman the villagers claim is a witch. Photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Flyer 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Profilmes unknown books
1989rif. 161693New York: Pat Hearn Gallery and Mary Boone Gallery 1989. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 6-27 1989. Introduction by Gore Vidal. Includes 13 color illustrations and a black and white photograph of the artist. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. An attractive production. Pat Hearn Gallery and Mary Boone Gallery unknown books
1992rif. UVIDASS00AFColumbia University Pres 1992. Very Good. Vidal-Naquet Pierre. Assassins of Memory. Mehlman Translator Jeffery. NY: Columbia University Pres 1992. 205pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed wraps and pages edges. Neat occasional underlining in orange. Columbia University Pres paperback books
1968rif. 98977Boston: Little Brown & Company 1968. First edition of this satirical novel by written in the form of a diary. Octavo black cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal. Name to the half-title page near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Photo courtesy of the Hotel Sahara. A very nice example. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s" the book's major themes are feminism transsexuality American expressions of machismo and patriarchy and deviant sexual practices. Harold Bloom cites Myra Breckinridge as a canonical work in his book The Western Canon. Made into the 1970 film directed by Michael Sarne and featured Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner Mae West as Leticia Van Allen Farrah Fawcett Rex Reed Roger Herren and Roger C. Carmel. Tom Selleck made his film debut in a small role as one of Leticia's "studs". Little, Brown, & Company hardcover books
1976rif. 144977Spain: Profilmes 1976. Original glossy full color two sided advertising flyer for international release of the 1976 film featuring a synopsis in English French and Spanish. Two friends travel to a remote village to investigate the mysterious death of a friend only to uncover a possible supernatural explanation in a young woman the villagers claim is a witch. 8.25 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Profilmes unknown books
1959rif. 144215Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on the set of the 1959 film. With holograph annotations in black ink and a press agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. Catherine Holly Elizabeth Taylor is being evaluated and coerced by her wealthy aunt Violet Venable Katharine Hepburn into receiving a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin while the three of them were on vacation in Europe the summer before. Set in New Orleans and various locations in Spain. Shot on location in Spain and England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
2000rif. UVIDGOL00TWDoubleday 2000. Fine. Vidal Gore. The Golden Age: A Novel. NY: Doubleday 2000. 464pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Doubleday hardcover books
1957rif. 144269France: Cinedis 1957. Collection of 61 original black-and-white single weight photographs from the 1957 French-Italian film released in the US as "On Foot On Horse and On Wheels" 1958. Starring actors Noel-Noel and Grey are in nearly every image with a few featuring Sophie Daumier. All with numerical annotations in holograph pencil housed in an original French Crumiere photo paper box. Leon Martin's Noel-Noel daughter is engaged to the son of a wealthy businessman and he goes to the extreme to make a good first impression. Prolific Paul Misraki composed the music and a sequel was made by Jean Dreville with Noel-Noel reprising his role called "A pied a cheval et en Sputnik" 1958 "Sputnik" in the US. 5 photos 3.5 x 4.25 inches and 61 photos 5 x 7 inches all with small white borders at the foot. Photos and box Very Good plus photos with moderate curling and faint foxing and one split to the box lid. Cinedis unknown books
1949rif. 85898New York: E.P. Dutton and Company Inc 1949. First edition of Vidal's fourth novel. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal on the dedication page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips and wear. In Season of Comfort Gore Vidal descres the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'. A novel based on the emotional conflict centered around a son's urge to sever the pshychological umbilical cord which ties him to a selfish and possessive mother. Completely unsympathetic to his young experiences and inclinations forever critical of his interests and reactions she nevertheless appeals to his sympathies and attempts to hold him emotionally. E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc hardcover books
1952rif. 92437New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1952. First edition of this classic coming of age story. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by George Salter. Rare in this condition and signed. Set in post-war Europe fresh-out-of-law-school Philip Warren takes a year to discover his future. In this classic coming-of-age story Philip journeys through various affairs misadventures and cities full of unforgettable characters that prompt his self-discovery and lessons on taking pleasure in both love and life. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover books
1959rif. 144209Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1959. Vintage borderless photograph of Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly from the 1959 film. With holograph annotations in graphite on the verso. Based on the 1958 play by Tennessee Williams. Catherine Holly Elizabeth Taylor is being evaluated and coerced by her wealthy aunt Violet Venable Katharine Hepburn into receiving a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin while the three of them were on vacation in Europe the summer before. Set in New Orleans and various Locations in Spain. Shot on location in Spain and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1968rif. URUYSEC00AFHarlin Quist 1968. Very Good. Ruy-Vidal Francois. The Secret Journey of Hugo the Brat. Claveloux Illustrator Nicole. NP: Harlin Quist 1968. First edition in DJ. Illustrated. Oblong octavo. Book condition: Very good with faintly rubbed edges. A few dog-eared pages. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with a small loss at head of spine. A few tiny closed tears. Slight discoloration. Price clipped. Harlin Quist unknown books
1967rif. 80018Boston: Little Brown and Company 1967. First edition of the final volume in Vidal's Narratives of Empire his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal. Small name to the front free endpaper fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Sheridan Germann. Washington D.C. is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empirehis acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. "Washington D.C. may well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital" said The New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement deemed it "a prodigiously skilled and clever performance." Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1987rif. UVIDEMP00MELRandom House 1987. Very Good. Vidal Gore. Empire. New York City: Random House 1987. 486pp. 8vo. Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Random House hardcover books
1970rif. 142749Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Gore Vidal. One of the key twentieth century films about Hollywood and a prescient one in terms of trans interests which at the time received almost no attention from major studios. Myra Breckinridge undergoes gender confirmation surgery and upon completion promptly moves to Hollywood to enroll in her uncle Buck's acting academy where she attempts to claim her half of her uncle's inheritance. Self wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine save for the first and last few leaves which have been worn to around Very Good condition bound with a gold brad. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1978rif. 152786New York: Random House 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A novel from the author of "Myra Breckinridge." A very good copy with some foxing to the top edge of the pages n a near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Vidal on the half title page. Random House unknown books
1968rif. 138763London: Cassell 1968. First UK Edition preceding all others. INSCRIBED by Sassoon on the half title page: "To Gerald Naborro / Thank you / Vidal Sassoon / Dorchester Hotel / 26.4.68 / It was very kind of you." A memoir by the legendary hair designer written when he was 40 years old and at the height of his popularity and influence on woman's fashion. Sassoon was born into extreme poverty with seven years of his childhood spent in an orphanage. He quit school at age 14 became a hairstylist at the suggestion of his mother and after a mercurial rise to fame had a chain of shops and a line of products. He mentored Paul Mitchell who also became a great hairstylist and icon. Mitchell has described Sassoon as "the greatest hair stylist in the history of the world." Sassoon's lasting contribution to fashion was to liberate women's hair from the high maintenance styles of the previous decade creating casual and modern looks that matched the emerging fashions of the day. He caused an international sensation with his reintroduction of the bob hair cut on Nancy Kwan for 1963's "The Wild Affair" created a shorter and more angular version of it known as the five point cut for British model Grace Coddington and was flown to Los Angeles by Roman Polanski for a press event where he cut Mia Farrow's long hair into the iconic pixie cut she wears in "Rosemary's Baby." Sassoon went on to write another autobiography several decades later published in 2010 only a year prior to his death. Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. Cassell unknown books
1948rif. 25087New York: E.P. Dutton 1948. First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a bright near fine dust jacket with two small chips to the crown but does not show the fading endemic to the spine panel. A very sharp example. Stylistically influenced by Hemingway this work "is distinguished by its honesty and lack of self-pity; the central figure is unexceptional in every respect but his sexual choices" Stringer 690. "One of the best novels of its kind. . . . It isnt sentimental and it is frank without trying to be sensational and shocking" Christopher Isherwood. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1999rif. RVIDVIS00MWM. Torres 1999. Fine. Vidal Coy Jose Luis. Visiones de un turista accidental. Visions of an Accidental Tourist. Fuente Alamo Spain: M. Torres 1999. 77pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine pristine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine in plastic protector. Text in both Spanish and English. M. Torres hardcover books
1984rif. 136053London: William Heinemann 1984. First British edition. Hardcover. First printing. 657 pages. A thick historical novel about the 16th U.S. President. A close to near fine copy with the usual darkening to the pages in a near fine dust jacket with some of the usual crazing to the lamination. William Heinemann unknown books
1962rif. 136050Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1962. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 278 pages. Includes a total of eight plays by Vidal. A tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and with some very slight edge wear at the spine ends and edges. A very nice copy of this early book. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1995rif. 136051New York: Random House 1995. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. 306 pages. A revised edition of one of Vidal's early books and with seven early stories as well. A fine unread copy in wrappers. Random House unknown books
