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ref. ria9789999334204_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; When the world feels broken where do we turn In a time marked by uncertainty fragmentation and quiet despair many people feel unprepared for the world they are living in-let alone the future ahead. Systems strain. Schools absorb th paperback
ref. 9999334202.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2025ref. x-9999334202Eliva Press 2025. Paperback. New. 149 pages. 6.00x0.34x9.00 inches. Eliva Press paperback
1989ref. 21136ENew York: Michael di Capua Books / Farrar Straus and Giroux 1989. First Edition. From the library of Gore Vidal with his estate stamp. 408 pages. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. with some minor edge wear. A compilation of material by Christopher Isherwood drawing on eight of his books spanning a period of forty-two years from 1938 to 1980. Michael di Capua Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown
1991ref. 349190New York: Noonday Press/FSG 1991. xix 408p. introduction excerpts from "Goodbye to Berlin" "Prater Violet" "Exhumations" and others first Noonday Press trade paperback edition stated bound in wraps. Very good condition. Noonday Press/FSG unknown books
1983ref. 021296Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1983. Book. Good. Wrappers. 170 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue. Texts in French. Illustrated. Moderate handling and light soiling to the covers with wear to the edges from shelving and a small stain to the right edge of the front cover. The spine is lightly sunned and has vertical creasing. There are a few minor ink notations on the last page but no other internal markings observed. Still a solid copy of a major exhibition catalogue one of the first to bring this Cuban born Surrealist to the prominence his work merits. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paperback
1996ref. 37616San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. Number 92 of 250 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies signed by the author. This edition of the author's first novel published in 1946 when Vidal was 21 years old was issued in its fiftieth anniversary year. The novel was based on his war-time service on an Army freighter in the Aleutians. Bound in black cloth with title label to spine. Printed in Hess Bold type on Schiller German mouldmade paper. A very nice copy in near fine condition missing the dust jacket. Measures 8.5 x 11.5 inches. 119 pages plus colophon. PRI/111524. Arion Press hardcover
1996ref. 37616San Francisco: Arion Press 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. Number 92 of 250 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies signed by the author. This edition of the author's first novel published in 1946 when Vidal was 21 years old was issued in its fiftieth anniversary year. The novel was based on his war-time service on an Army freighter in the Aleutians. Bound in black cloth with title label to spine. Printed in Hess Bold type on Schiller German mouldmade paper. A very nice copy in near fine condition missing the dust jacket. Measures 8.5 x 11.5 inches. 119 pages plus colophon. PRI/111524. Arion Press hardcover books
ref. 0349105693.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1996ref. 87930The Arion Press 1996. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Signed by the author. Not one of the limited signed copies. Covers mildly shelfworn. The Arion Press hardcover
1946ref. rbr2-105Side and lower page edges are untrimed. Top edge trimmed. Gore Vidal's first novel written when he was 19. A VG copy without a Dust Jacket. No internal markings. Binding is tight and sounhd. Light edge wear to bottoms of boards. Pleasse see photos. E. P. Dutton & Company hardcover
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
ref. 1023487470.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 50172737like new. unknown
1946ref. 006393New York: E. P. Dutton 1946. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover with blue embossed title to spine and front board in mylar protected price-clipped jacket 8.25 x 6 inches. First Edition stated on copyright page. 222 pages. SIGNED by Gore Vidal in black pen on title page. "Author's first book; a story set in World War II about murder & adventure off the Aleutian Islands." Previous owner's signature on front pastedown typical toning to endpapers dust-jacket shows chipping and rubbing heaviest at head and foot of spine with evidence of prior tape repair. Remains a signed collectable copy which presents nicely in mylar protected jacket E. P. Dutton hardcover
1946ref. 2303New York: E. P. Dutton 1946. First edition. 8vo. Black cloth. A little toning to endpapers. Small abraded area in upper right corner of free front endpaper where sticker was removed. Overall very good/in very good dust jacket with a few minor flaws. E. P. Dutton unknown
1946ref. 16668JNew York: Dutton 1946. First Edition First Printing of the Author’s First Book. With a remarkable extensive signed inscription by Gore Vidal to Dr. William Shelton Gray Jr. written over two pages providing details on the development and history of the novel: “For Bill Gray - Twenty years later; this first and onlyedition was 5000 copies - In time all sold - There has never been a hard-cover reprint - The book was written 1944-45 - Begun aboard F.S. 35 at Chesapeake Bay just before New Year's '44. Finished at East Hampton Shortly after Hiroshima – Gore Vidal Jan 2 - 1967 NYC”. Vidal’s inscriptions in books are notoriously short even to close friends and this book has the longest Vidal inscription we have encountered anywhere. William Gray was the Chairman of the English Department at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland Virginia who edited Tennessee Williams’ only book of poetry In the Winter of Cities and one of W.H. Auden’s last poems “The Aliens” was dedicated to him. Gray met and befriended Vidal through Williams. Hardcover dust jacket octavo 222 pages. The volume is in very good used condition with some rubbing to the cloth edges in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing some aging and light chipping. Williwaw is the term widely thought to be Native American in origin for a sudden violent Katabatic wind common to the Aleutian Islands. The story combines war drama maritime adventure and a murder plot. The book is a World War II novel set on a U.S. ship in the Arctic waters around the Aleutians in the Pacific Ocean in the middle of the local storm season during World War II. The nervousness and tension of the crew and a handful of passengers at the approach of the Williwaw is stretched to breaking point when the Chief Engineer Duval falls overboard in suspicious circumstances. Dutton hardcover
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
1946ref. 45622New York: E P Dutton & Company 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 222p octavo. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket nicked on the foredge of the jacket E P Dutton & Company hardcover
1946ref. 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
1946ref. 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
1946ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. 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
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
