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The City and the Pillar (First Edition, inscribed by the author)
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Vidal's third novel, a milestone in gay literature.
Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine lightly rubbed. Jacket moderately rubbed on the front panel and front flap fold, with chips at the spine ends and corners, and accompanying creasing.
Synopsis
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw , written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.
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- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155933
- Title
- The City and the Pillar (First Edition, inscribed by the author)
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Literature | LGBTQ Interest
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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