The City and the Pillar
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
John Lehmann, Ltd., 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. Second Impression. 270 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Bottom corners of page 269 and rear endpaper are chipped. Bookseller sticker to bottom edge of front pastedown. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled. Faint white markings with scuffing to boards. Sunning to spine ends and edges. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped jacket. Panels have heavy edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to edges and corners. Faint black marks to rear.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1714050133GEO
- Title
- The City and the Pillar
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lehmann, Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1949
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...