The City and the Pillar
by VIDAL, Gore
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1948. Bound in black cloth, stamped in gold (which is faded, but still readable). no dust jacket. Previous owner's neat name of ffepl The true first edition of the author's third book. (First Edition is stated on copyright page). A bit of wear to top spine end. 314pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket.
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
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 910724
- Title
- The City and the Pillar
- Author
- VIDAL, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- Fiction
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