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1946Best.-Nr. 25312New York: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth titled in blue. Stated first edition. Cloth edges lightly rubbed cloth at gutters and top edge have faint insecting endpages have tape ghosts and small blue mark. Front hinge very slightly loose. The DJ in mylar is chipped at spine ends mildly rubbed with small scrape to front panel tape remnants to flaps. Rear flap has a pull from tape removal. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . Dutton hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 018369New York: E.P. Dutton and Company Inc. 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. First printing stated. Newspaper shadow ghost inside front cover. E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 17766New York: E.P. Dutton 1946. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 1st PRINTING. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. E.P. Dutton hardcover
Best.-Nr. Gore Vidal 24ArION PRESS Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. FIRST. LETTER N. OF twenty-six. A fine first edition in dj. not price clipped. GORE VIDAL'S PERSONAL COPY WITH COA AND FACSIMILE BOOKPLATE. ArION PRESS Hardcover
Best.-Nr. FIR 5/13-0DUTTON Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. signed on titile page. DUTTON Hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 1393922New York NY: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 222 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue wave designs and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering price is uncut "$2.50" has mild shelving wear light chipping along the extremities bending wear along the head and tail edges and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges and light fraying along the corners. Textblock has light soiling on few pages stains on the end-pages and pastedowns mild wear along the edges and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Room Z. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Gore Vidal's debut novel written when he was 19 serving as first mate on a ship in the Aleutian Islands. The title "Williwaw" being a word thought to have Native American origins for a blast of wind descending from the mountains into the sea. 1393922. Special Collections - Upstairs. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 23992San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Previous owners small exlibris label to front free endpaper else in fine jacket/like new. Dark blue cloth pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp. illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The photographic illustrations depict Vidal in uniform in 1946 frontispiece; the second shows Vidal a year earlier as a Warrant Officer at the helm of FS 35; the third picture is from 1944 showing Vidal as a serviceman in Anchorage Alaska. Printed letterpress on German mouldmade paper. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author this #64. Arion Press hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 150089New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1946. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo original black cloth. Boldly signed by Gore Vidal on a card to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Williwaw was Gore Vidal's first publication and it earned him the reputation as "the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson"Newsweek. The military novel marked the beginning of his writing career aged twenty-one and is based upon his Alaskan Harbor Detachment duty. Williwaw is a quasi-autobiographical novel and its value comprises not merely Vidal's excellent writing but the insight it offers into the author's experiences. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 22813San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket/like new. Dark blue cloth pictorial cloth-trimmed jacket; 132 pp. illustrated with 3 photographs of the author. Publication prospectus laid in. A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Gore Vidal's first book written when the author was a 19-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship. The photographic illustrations depict Vidal in uniform in 1946 frontispiece; the second shows Vidal a year earlier as a Warrant Officer at the helm of FS 35; the third picture is from 1944 showing Vidal as a serviceman in Anchorage Alaska. Printed letterpress on German mouldmade paper. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by the author this #201. Arion Press hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 107561New York: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1946. First edition first printing of the author's first book. Octavo. Original black cloth titles to spine and front board in blue top edge black. With dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth chemise and slipcase. Extremities lightly rubbed spine tips a touch crumpled. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 103426New York: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1946. First edition first printing of the author's first book. Octavo. Original black cloth titles to spine and front board in blue top edge black. With dust jacket. Spine a little rolled tips rubbed. An excellent copy in the jacket with toned spine and creased and chipped extremities. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 70889New York: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1946. First edition first printing of the author's first book. Octavo. Original black cloth titles to spine and front board in blue black top-stain. With dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at extremities endpapers unevenly tanned. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 44390New York:: E. P. Dutton 1946. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Better than very good in an attractive jacket with some light use to the extremities of the spine and corners. . 8vo. Author's first book. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. E. P. Dutton, hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 031602New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1946 Vidal's first book. 222 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean bright tight blue topstain f.e. deckled; a.e. tanned eps toned PO name typed ffep and rear ep. Cover: black blue titles front/spine; lt shelfwear extremities a bit worn front top crnr bumped. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 101473New York: E. P. Dutton & Company 1946. Hardcover. 222p. ex-library first edition of Vidal's first book signed by Vidal on the title page half-title and f.e.p. roughly removed boards somewhat edgeworn with a couple of stain dots pastedowns browned with some offsetting to title leaf library stamp and shadow of absent pocket on r.e.p. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 609519New York: Random House 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book club edition. 364pp. Fine in a very good dust jacket with fading on the spine rubbing and edgewear. Random House hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 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
1976Best.-Nr. 429615New York: Random House 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Later printing. 364pp. Owner's name penned on front fly boards bowed slightly very good in a fine dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 094241876 Random House 1976 first edition fine in slip-case. 1/300 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. Random House unknown books
1976Best.-Nr. 365857New York: Random House 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked else very good in an about near fine dustwrapper with some toning and wear on the spine ends. Signed by the author. Random House hardcover books
1986Best.-Nr. 104293Moscow: Progress 1986. Hardcover. 410p. very good first edition in Russian language hardcover in green vinyl boards and gilt. Progress hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 101465New York: Random House 1976. Paperback. 376p. signed by Vidal on the half-title uncorrected first proof paperback in red wraps with an ownership name crossed out on the cover. Random House paperback books
1976Best.-Nr. 533951New York: Random House 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine slipcase. Copy 192 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. Random House hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 30102NY: Random House 1976. First Edition. 8vo pp. 364. Little foxing on edges cover slightly warped and faded o/w VG. Random House unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 70623NY: E.P. Dutton 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. Ink name and date on front free endpaper prelims tanned else a very good hardback in a darkened and worn jacket that has an internal tape repair across the spine. E.P. Dutton hardcover books