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At Home: Essays, 1982-1988
by Vidal, Gore
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0394570200
- ISBN 13
- 9780394570204
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New York: Random House, 1988. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. New York: Random House, 1988. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First American Edition in unclipped dust jacket. Clean maroon cloth boards with metallic lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean maroon endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 303 pages + "About the Author." Dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Twenty-four of the author's most stimulating, fearless, and provocative essays to appear since the publication of "The Second American Revolution", winner of the 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. On subjects ranging from Henry James to Nancy Reagan, Oscar Wile to Oliver North, Hollywood to Mongolia, Vidal once again confirms his reputation as "America's finest essayist.".
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- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028574
- Title
- At Home: Essays, 1982-1988
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Stated First American Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0394570200
- ISBN 13
- 9780394570204
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- ESSAYS, GORE VIDAL, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Political; Essays;
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