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Gore Vidal: A Biography
by Fred Kaplan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which has a hint of tanning to the
- ISBN 10
- 0747546711
- ISBN 13
- 9780747546719
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which has a hint of tanning to the spine. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1.8 kg); 850pp; Index; Contains: Black & white photographs; ISBN: 0-7475-4671-1 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #189210|| Condition:
Synopsis
Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the critically acclaimed author of the biographies Henry James , Dickens , and Thomas Carlyle (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the editor of The Essential Gore Vidal . Kaplan has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, received a Queens College Presidential Award, and been a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. He is currently at work on a biography of Mark Twain. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 189210
- Title
- Gore Vidal: A Biography
- Author
- Fred Kaplan
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which has a hint of tanning to the
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0747546711
- ISBN 13
- 9780747546719
- Publisher
- London: Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- tennessee williams, anais nin, truman capote, william buckley, biography authors american, novels, prose writers, literary, autobiography, criticism, first edition books, books written by fred kaplan, 0-7475-4671-1
Terms of Sale
BookLovers of Bath
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About the Seller
BookLovers of Bath
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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