1962 Three Plays Gore Vidal First Edition Original Jacket SIGNED BY AUTHOR

Published by William Heinemann Ltd., 1962

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Gore Vidal. Three Plays. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1962, First Edition. Original Dust Jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 260 p, navy cloth binding measures 8 x 5.25\u0094, 8vo. In fair condition. Dust jacket: water or tea dampness staining along entirety of spine & heads and tails of hinges; edges scuffed; normal soiling and age-staining. Navy cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn\/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine scuffed; gilt lettering on spine normally dulled, but legible. White scuff mark on tail of front hinge. Edges of text-block exhibit water or tea dampness staining. Author's signature, in ink, found on title page. Toning and age-staining sporadically through text-block. Binding intact. Please see photos. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (1925 \u0096 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the United States Senate (for California). As a public intellectual, Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer. As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His style of narration evoked the time and place of his stories and delineated his characters' psychology. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship, offended conservative book reviewers' literary, political, and moral sensibilities. First Edition. Signed by author. RAREB1962NMEX - 08\/25 - HK2614.…

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Title
1962 Three Plays Gore Vidal First Edition Original Jacket SIGNED BY AUTHOR
Author
Gore Vidal
Publisher
William Heinemann Ltd.
Publication year
1962
Condition
Fair
Dust jacket
Fair
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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