Vidal, GoreABAA
1967ref. 9030670Boston: Little Brown 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Signed by the author on a tipped in leaf for members of the First Edition Circle with Kroch's & Brentano's bookmark laid in. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Light wear to corners of book. Moderate wear to dust jacket edges. 6 x 9 inches. 377 pages. Little, Brown hardcover books
1967ref. 572057Boston: Little Brown and Company 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Modest rubbing at the spine ends and corners page edges toned near fine in a rubbed very good dust jacket with chips and small creased tears along the edges most notably at the crown. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1967ref. 536533Boston: Little Brown and Company 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Owner name on the half title page and light spotting on the boards and top page edge else about near fine in a very good dust jacket with slight rubbing an internal tape repair and edgewear. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1968ref. 202520New York: Signet Books 1968. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Signet Books unknown books
1967ref. 14779Boston: Little Brown & Co 1967. First edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in a price-clipped very good jacket with a closed tear to the bottom of the front panel near the spine. Signed by the author at the top of the first white blank page. Here the author tackles politics with his characteristic wit and insight and traces the fortunes of a number of men and women who in the years 1937 to 1952 helped to transform the American republic into what Vidal refers to as "possibly the last empire on earth." The author's sixth novel in his Narratives of Empire series of historical novels. 377 pages. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1967ref. 564049Boston: Little Brown and Company 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Front cover with a tiny spot corners and spine ends lightly worn near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with slight rubbing modest edgewear and a faint internal stain. A novel of power players in American politics from 1937 to 1952 including both fictional and historical characters. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
19671st edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/G (worn, price-clipped). 17697. eng
1968ref. 574486New York: Dramatists Play Service Inc 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 87 3pp. Stapled printed pale blue wrappers. Faint toning still fine. Dramatists Play Service, Inc unknown books
1986ref. UVIDWIL00acmfBallantine Books 1986. Very Good. Vidal Gore. Williwaw. NY: Ballantine Books 1986. 167pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping and rubbing. Ballantine Books paperback books
1996ref. CNAP051San Francisco: The Arion Press 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New/new. Octavo 11 5/8" by 8 1/4" 132 pp. The types for the text are Hess Bold and Caslon Bold for italic in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris with larger sizes of Hess handset for display. The photographs were printed by offset lithography and are tipped onto the pages. The paper is Schiller a German mould-made sheet. The binding done in-house is machine-sewn and bound in full dark blue cloth with a paper spine label. The endpapers are printed with the plans of the ship in the novel. The dust jacket is cover weight paper with strips of dark blue cloth along the top and bottom edges and printed with the review quotations on the back panel that were printed on the dust jacket of the first edition conventional promotional copy on the flaps and a drawing of a freight-supply ship on the front cover beneath the title set in ascending sizes of Futura Bold type. Edition of 250 numbered copies plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce signed by the author. Gore Vidal 1925-2012 wrote a new introduction for this fiftieth anniversary edition of his first novel composed during World War II when he was a nineteen-year-old first mate on an Army supply ship in the Aleutians. The battles are far removed but nature becomes the enemy in the form of a storm at sea and the psychological subject is the tedium of waiting for the war to end. Reproduced are plans for the type of freight-supply ship Vidal was assigned to and that he used as the setting for the novel. The drawings were found by Hoyem with assistance from the San Francisco Maritime Museum and the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham Washington. They show the outboard profile deck plans for the navigation bridge and main- and below-deck arrangements. Stephanie Dal Porto who answered the Press's telephone was terribly worried that Gore Vidal would call from Italy and that she would impulsively imitate the voice of the comedienne Lily Tomlin playing a receptionist by responding: "Yes Mr. Veedle!" When he did call Hoyem answered and the author said that he had not replied to emails because his Internet connection and computer had been zapped by lightening. __POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
1946ref. 56534New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1946. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 21cm. Original black cloth titled in blue on spine and front cover; 222pp. Pinpoint traces of rubbing at base of spine and board corners; endpapers mildly toned as usual; still a straight tight very Near Fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Vidal's first book a novel of suspense set on board a U.S. Army troop ship during WW2. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
1996ref. 302240San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. 3 photo illustrations. 4to navy blue cloth d.w. San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Limited Edition. Fine. Fiftieth anniversary edition of his first book. No. 208 of 250 signed copies. Prospectus laid in. Arion Press unknown books
1946ref. 300867New York: Dutton 1946. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo black cloth lettered in blue d.w. New York: Dutton 1946. First Edition. His first book. Fine copy in a near fine price intact dust wrapper with minor rubbing at the corners & light soil on the back pane.l Dutton unknown books
1968ref. 322745New York: Signet 1968. Paperback. 144p. very good first printing thus mass-market paperback in pictorial wraps. Signet P3602. Vidal's first novel written at 20 after serving in the Aleutians in the Army. Williwaw is a Native American word for a big and sudden wind. Originally published as "Williwaw" in 1946 by Dutton in hardcover and then by Signet in 1953 as "Dangerous Voyage" in mass-market paperback. Here republished with original title. Signet paperback books
1946ref. 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 books
1965ref. 101458London: Panther Books 1965. 191p. first UK edition of Vidal's first book lightly worn wraps. Panther Books unknown books
1946ref. 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 books
1966ref. 12000ROMULUS THE BROADWAY ADAPTATION along with ROMULUS THE GREAT by Friedrich Duerrenmatt Grove Press 1966 first edition just about fine in like dust-wrapper save for some horizontal creases to the lamination of the dust-wrapper. Grove Press unknown books
1992ref. 567580New York: Columbia University Press 1992. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. 321pp. Light crease to one corner else fine. A collection of critical essays. Columbia University Press unknown books
1991ref. 563202New York: The Armchair Detective Library 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus with a new introduction by the author. Navy cloth stamped in silver with author portrait laid down on the cover. Faint spotting on the rear board one tiny soil mark on the front cover near fine. The Armchair Detective Library hardcover books
1991ref. 52045New York: Armchair Detective Library 1991. First Thus. First Thus originally published 1952-54. Octavo 23cm. 3 volumes each one of 26 lettered signed copies of a total edition of 126. Bound uniformly in maroon cloth titled in gilt on covers and spines; slipcases; publisher's clear acetate dustjackets. All three volumes Fine in the original clear acetate jackets and slipcases. Attractive set of these signed limited reprints of works originally issued under Vida'ls pseudonym Edgar Box in the early- to mid-1950s featuring detective Edgar Cutler Sargeant. Includes:. Death in the Fifth Position 1991 - Letter "D" signed Gore Vidal Death Before Bedtime 1990 - Letter "I" signed Gore Vidal Death Likes It Hot 1990 - Letter "C" signed Edgar Box and Gore Vidal. Armchair Detective Library unknown books
1957ref. 57478NY: Gloria Enterprises 1957. Signed by Cyril Ritchard the star of the play on the front cover. A large 12-page program promoting the play. “Visit to a Small Planet” debuted as an original television production in 1955 then was reworked by Vidal as a Broadway play starring Cyril Ritchard and Eddie Mayehoff. On Broadway the play debuted on February 7 1957 and ran for 388 performances. It was Vidal's first Broadway play. Ritchard who also directed the play received a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Kreton. Mayehoff also received a nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor. Vidal intended the play as a satire on the post-World War II fear of communism in the United States McCarthyism Cold War military paranoia and the rising importance of television in American life. The play a comedy tells the story of Kreton an alien from an unnamed planet who lands on Earth intending to view the American Civil War. He miscalculates and lands instead 100 years later. Having missed the opportunity to see conflict first hand but delighted with all the new playthings the 20th century has invented for war-making he decides to create a war for himself. “Visit To A Small Planet” was made into a film starring Jerry Lewis. The film was released on February 4 1960. Quarto printed wraps; 16 pages. Photographs by Friedman-Abeles. Very Good covers nice; contents clean & tight. Gloria Enterprises unknown books
1966ref. 248452New York: Grove Press 1966. Hardcover. xv 165p. preface very good first edition first printing stated in buckram cloth and price-clipped dj. Grove Press hardcover books
1966ref. 126412New York: Grove Press 1966. Hardcover. xv 165p. preface very good first edition first printing stated in buckram cloth and unclipped dj. Grove Press hardcover books
1980ref. 591815Secaucaus N.J.: Lyle Stuart 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and a tiny tear. Lyle Stuart hardcover books
