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2010Best.-Nr. x-0268026068University of Notre Dame Press 2010. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 259 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. University of Notre Dame Press paperback
2022Best.-Nr. x-0198795270Oxford Univ Pr 2022. Hardcover. New. 352 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
2022Best.-Nr. x-303072252XSpringer 2022. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 363 pages. 10.00x7.01x0.98 inches. Springer paperback
2022Best.-Nr. x-9811650659Springer 2022. Paperback. New. 1048 pages. 9.25x6.10x2.40 inches. Springer paperback
1989Best.-Nr. 830B19London : Andre Deutsch 1989. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A wonderful first edition signed copy of Gore Vidal's fifth installment of the Narratives of Empire series. A first edition first impression copy. Signed by the author to the title page.Hollywood a novel of the twenties is the fifth novel in Vidal's Narratives of Empire series which chronicle the dawn to decadence of the American Empire. Hollywood begins in 1917 and America is on the cusp of entering the First World War. This is an epic blend of history and fiction with Gore heralding it as a biography of the United States. Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known his wit and novel that interrogated social and cultural sexual norms.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is very smart with some light marks to the rear wrap. Fine Andre Deutsch hardcover
1987Best.-Nr. 830B18New York : Random House 1987-1992. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". None. Three wonderful volumes of work by the American writer Gore Vidal. Three volumes by American writer Gore Vidal. This set of three volumes includes a copy of the first Random House Edition in its second impression of Empire which is a detailed and brilliantly imagined portrait of a turn-of-the-century American in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.At Home is a collection of essays from 1982-1988 which brings together twenty-four of Vidal's most stimulating and provocative essays on subjects ranging from Henry James Oscar Wilde and Hollywood. This is a copy of the First American edition. Live from Golgotha the Gospel According to Gore Vidal is an irreverent spoof of the New Testament and the novel shifts in time as Saint Timothy and Saint Paul combat a mysterious hacker from the future who is deleting all traces of Christianity. Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known his wit and novel that interrogated social and cultural sexual norms.All three are in the original unclipped dust wrappers. All three volumes are in the original cloth binding. Externally very smart indeed. Internally all three volumes are firmly bound with bright and clean pages. All three are in the original unclipped dust wrappers which are also very smart with some light chipping to the head of the spine of Empire. Near Fine Random House hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 75370San Francisco: The Arion Press 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is copy 185 of 250 signed by Gore Vidal. The author's first book a taughtly written story of the twenty-man crew aboard a small army supply ship serving in the Aleutian Islands during the final months of World War II and their encounter with a fierce storm that blows apart the military decorum that had held their personal hostilities in check. Written by Vidal when he was a 19-year-old soldier posted to Alaska the novel was met with critical praise that secured Vidal a place among the generation of writers that came of age during World War II which includes Joseph Heller Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. This fine press edition was issued on the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's first publication in 1946 and includes a new introduction by the author. Prospectus laid in. Quarto: x 119 p. with three tipped-in photographs and illustrated endpapers. Printed on German mouldmade Schiller paper and bound in full blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author. The Arion Press hardcover
2022Best.-Nr. x-3030863069Springer 2022. Paperback. New. 649 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.57 inches. Springer paperback
2020Best.-Nr. x-1108733298Cambridge Univ Pr 2020. Paperback. New. 419 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr paperback
1962Best.-Nr. gore220431962 260 pages uncorrected proof copy in paper covers exterior shows moderate to heavy general wear; gift inscription inside otherwise free of notes etc carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days Heinemann
1966Best.-Nr. 155689New York: Grove Press 1966. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by Gore Vidal on the title page. Includes the original play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt and Vidal's controversial adaptation. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown with a couple of splashes on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single vertical crease on the rear flap. Grove Press unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 804A63London: Heinemann 1970. Paperback. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None . The scarce uncorrected proof for the first edition of Gore Vidal's novel. The scarce uncorrected proof of this fictional memoir by American author Gore Vidal telling of a love affair in a post-war Paris; featuring notebooks diaries and vivid fragments reflective of the author's thoughts on love sex death literature and politics.In the original publisher's paper wraps. Published in 1970. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only light soiling to the rear wrap minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Heinemann paperback
Best.-Nr. SKU0500945Routledge 2017-06-20. Paperback. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking Routledge paperback
1973Best.-Nr. 126791New York: Random House 1973. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "Valerie -- love -- Gore." The recipient Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket jacket laminated by Vidal. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804 while serving as vice president Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis Alexander Hamilton and killed him. In 1807 he was arrested tried and acquitted of treason. In 1833 Burr is newly married an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Together they explore both Burr's past—and the continuing civic drama of their young nation. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers. "A novel of Stendhalian proportions. . . . It is probably impossible to be an American and not be fascinated and impressed by Vidal's telescoping of our early history. . . . Always absorbing" The New Yorker. Random House hardcover
1958Best.-Nr. 155413London: William Heinemann 1958. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First UK Edition and preceded by the First American Edition published by Zero Press in 1956. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title: "Frank Adonici / from / Gore Vidal." Very Good plus in wrappers as issued with light foxing on the endpapers. William Heinemann unknown
1983Best.-Nr. 155421New York: Random House 1983. First Edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in wrappers. Random House unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 131323New York: Random House 1976. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the "Kit love Gore." The recipient Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency only six years older than Gore. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A nice association. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly knowing and ironic observers. The centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare--fireworks exhibitions pious calls to patriotism and perhaps the most underhanded political machination in the country's history: the theft of the presidency from Samuel Tilden in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. This was the Gilded Age when robber barons held the purse strings of the nation and the party in power was determined to stay in power. Gore Vidal's 1876 gives us the news of the day through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler who has returned from exile to regain a lost fortune and arrange a marriage into New York society for his widowed daughter. And although Tammany Hall has faltered and Boss Tweed has fled the effects of corruption reach deep even into Schuyler's own family. "Vidal writes so well that you find yourself holding your breath over something that is a foregone conclusion. . . . Vidal's talent makes the bloated characters of Washington live in a way history books don't" The Boston Globe. Random House hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. 126011Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992. First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Valerie love Gore Vidal." The recipient Valerie Vidal was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association. Gore Vidal saw his first talking picture in 1929 when he was four years old. At age ten the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor. Yet it was movies about history albeit history as brought to life on the silver screen that he remembers most vividly from his youth. Movies such as Roman Scandals The Prince and the Pauper and Fire Over England in his words "opened for me that door to the past where I have spent so much of my life-long present." Author of Burr Lincoln and other best-selling novels chronicling our experience Vidal shows how history and fiction blend in the private and public worlds of his generation. In Screening History he intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington D.C. boyhood with strands of autobiography and trenchant observations about American politics. Never before has Vidal--a scion of one of our oldest political families--revealed so much about his own life or written with such marvelous immediacy about the real and imagined forces that have shaped America in the twentieth century. We see Vidal witnessing history as his grandfather is sworn in for a fourth Senate term during the Depression; we see him making history as a young airman of ten flying a Hammond Y-1 under the watchful eye of his father FDR's Director of Aviation; and we journey back with him to America in the 1930s and 1940s to theaters with names like the Belasco and the Metropolitan where the history screened for the nation's moviegoers often turned reality into fantasy or into downright propaganda. Screening History is rich with anecdotes about Vidal's eminent family and shrewd insights about prominent figures known and observed. It captures the hold that movies have had on the American imagination and the mark they left on the mind of a youngster who grew up to become one of our best-known and most controversial literary figures. At times poignant often bitingly funny this is Gore Vidal at his best inscribing his views on the American political scene from FDR to George Bush and on issues from the writing of history to the inability of movies to set history straight. Harvard University Press hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 126331New York: Random House 1976. First edition of this classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the "Valerie love Gore." The recipient Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout the years. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly knowing and ironic observers. The centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare--fireworks exhibitions pious calls to patriotism and perhaps the most underhanded political machination in the country's history: the theft of the presidency from Samuel Tilden in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. This was the Gilded Age when robber barons held the purse strings of the nation and the party in power was determined to stay in power. Gore Vidal's 1876 gives us the news of the day through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler who has returned from exile to regain a lost fortune and arrange a marriage into New York society for his widowed daughter. And although Tammany Hall has faltered and Boss Tweed has fled the effects of corruption reach deep even into Schuyler's own family. "Vidal writes so well that you find yourself holding your breath over something that is a foregone conclusion. . . . Vidal's talent makes the bloated characters of Washington live in a way history books don't" The Boston Globe. Random House hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0586054588.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1996Best.-Nr. x-1853593508Multilingual Matters Ltd 1996. Paperback. New. 164 pages. 8.25x6.00x0.50 inches. Multilingual Matters Ltd paperback
2018Best.-Nr. x-1786300877ISTE Ltd. 2018. Hardcover. New. 162 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. ISTE Ltd. hardcover
2021Best.-Nr. x-185566352XTamesis Books Ltd 2021. Hardcover. New. 172 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.60 inches. Tamesis Books Ltd hardcover
2020Best.-Nr. x-022671036XUniv of Chicago Pr 2020. Paperback. New. 432 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.20 inches. Univ of Chicago Pr paperback
Best.-Nr. 113366Random House New York. 1990. First edition. 8vo 437pp. A near fine hardback copy in like slipcase. Number 145 of 200 copies signed by the author. Random House, New York. 1990 hardcover
