London: Heinemann, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1970 first edition. Size octavo, 8.5" tall, 175 pages. Dark olive green hard cover with gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good plus, slight rub to corners and spine ends, a couple of very minor marks to boards, contents are very clean. Dust jacket condition very good, slight rubbing to corners and spine ends, a little sunning/toning to 2mm of the upper and lower edges, not price clipped. Gore Vidal's fictional memoir of a love affair with a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris - a story skilfully interwoven with notebooks, diaries and the vivid fragment of a screenplay set in ancient Greece. In seductive settings from a brothel in a Parisian backstreet to the rooftops of seventies Rome, Vidal assembles his characters, real and imagined.

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Bookseller: Lazarus Books Limited (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 018258
Title: Two Sisters. A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
Author: Gore Vidal
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0434829587
ISBN 13: 9780434829583
Publisher: Heinemann
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1970
Pages: 175
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: FICTION HUMOUR SATIRE

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