1876 - A Novel by Gore Vidal - 1976

Random House, 1976. Book shows minimal wear; dustjacket shows moderate wear. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, N. Y., U. S. A.: Ballantine Books, 1977. 1st ed.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. No DJ Issued Very good condition paperback, clean and tight, no writing 439 pages.

New York: Random House, 1976 reprint. 364pp. navy cloth tall 8vo: Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [ink gift inscription ffep; red crayon doodle ffep; edges are foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy; dj = edge tears; now protected in poly cover] Historical fiction in Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.

Slight bit of toning, else content appears as unread and unblemished with very good wraps displaying minimal surface/edge wear, as shown.Kirkus Review: Once again as in Burr (1973) Vidal centers on politics as the manifestation and shaper of American identity. Here he illuminates one of the nation's dark moments, the disputed TildenHayes election along with the centralizing drift of money, power and sectional interests toward the capital. Charlie Schuyler is again the journalist-narrator. As an admirer of the ailing Tilden, a scrupulous ascetic, Schuyler forgoes his detachment and reports the corrupt electoral tangles. While Tilden falls, notables in New York and Washington are observed: a smooth, intelligent Garfield (". . . when you are dealt the cards you play them"); a glum, bewildered Grant; a ""deceitful"" Senator Conkling ("Senate seats are expensive. . . It is all money nowadays"); and also that likable rake, James Bennett, Jr. of the Herald. While Schuyler lives… Read More

Library stamp & pocket intact FLEP, else content appears as unblemished with very good dark blue/gold gilt, cloth covered boards DJ & vinyl protector, displaying minimal surface/edge wear, as shown Library stamp on text block, Perceivable tilt.The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year.------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves… Read More

Other than rubber stamp on end page this is an unmarked copy- DJ shows wear and tear- Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued." Presents Gore Vidal's "1876". Part of a grand vision of American history "from above", a multi-volume project that took the better part of forty years. The novels, in historical order, are: "Burr", "Lincoln", "1876", "Empire", "Washington, DC", "Hollywood", and "The Golden Age". Vidal's unblinking and penetrating vision throughout the entire cycle is the transformation of his beloved country from a struggling, proud, and independent Republic to a world power and out-of-control Empire. Published in the Bicentennial Year, "1876" recreates the Centennial Year, which was "celebrated with great fanfare and the most under-handed political machination in the country's history: The theft of the Presidency from Samuel Tilden by Rutherford B. Hayes. This was the Gilded Age, when robber barons held the purse strings of the nation, and the party in power was… Read More

New York: Random House, 1976. First American Signed Limited Edition (1 of 300 copies) . Hardcover (in Slip Case). Very Good. 8vo (374 pages). Avery good copy of the publisher’s slipcased Deluxe Limited First Edition, without a dust jacket, as issued, number 58 in an edition of 300 copies, signed on the colophon page. The slipcase shows minor wear; the contents are fine.