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The Essential Gore Vidal. [hardcover]
by Vidal, Gore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+ dj. (appears unread, no writings. jacket complete/clean, security device removal scar on reverse, no edge t
- ISBN 10
- 0679457461
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457466
- Seller
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Beverly Hills, Florida, United States
Item Price
NZ$37.86NZ$30.29
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About This Item
NY. Random House. (c1999). HARDCOVER.. Near Fine/Very Good+ dj. (appears unread, no writings. jacket complete/clean, security device removal scar on reverse, no edge tears). 8vo. Edited by Fred Kaplan. xxx. + 988pp. + blanks. Includes Chronology & Bibliography. Gilt lettered, black paper & cloth back covers. Deckle edge. Not a remainder or book club. $39.95 price, 2/99 date on jacket. SHIPS USPS MEDIA MAIL IN A BOX. First Edition stated BUT 2nd Printing per print number line. No date on title page. Small area soiled on bottom fore edge corner else book appears unread: covers & interior clean/tight/crisp, no writings. Jacket complete/clean, meager creases, no tears.
Synopsis
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, appeared in the spring of 1946, when he was nineteen years old and just out of the Army. Since then he has written twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir. Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Thomas Carlyle: A Biography; Charles Dickens: A Biography; and Henry James: The Imagination of a Genius.
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- Seller
- Booktopia
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2071515
- Title
- The Essential Gore Vidal. [hardcover]
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Very Good+ dj. (appears unread, no writings. jacket complete/clean, security device removal scar on reverse, no edge t
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679457461
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457466
- Publisher
- Random House.
- Place of Publication
- NY.
- Date Published
- (c1999).
- Pages
- xxx. + 988pp. + blanks.
- Keywords
- 20th Century American Literature Literary Essays Criticism Gore Vidal Anthology
- Size
- 8vo.
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