Vidal Jack (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Jack Ribik, jacket design (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Random House, New York, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding, square with sharp corners. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is price intact ($22.50), crisp and bright with no chips or tears. Sticker residue on front, else fine. Protected in mylar. The fourth in Vidal's sweeping series of historical novels covering American history. Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition ex-library. New York: Globe Book Company 1961 Hardcover. First edition. Photo-illustrated anthology [most short stories but also including the complete play of "Visit to a Small Planet" , 655+ pages. Reginald 09230. Rebound in blue buckrum with red spine lettering, ex-library copy usual flaws, plus some check marks to the contents page and owner's inscription at the rear. No jacket. clph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boston: Little Brown and Company [ 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 310 pages, Playboy interivew with Paul Carroll, appendix: A biographical chronology, A checklist of Mailer's published work. Very good with edge wear, dust soiling to page edges in edge worn jacket with a few short edge tears. bx315 .

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Couverture différente. Edition 1984. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Different cover. Edition 1984. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ribik, Jack (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good condition maroon cloth boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Gore Vidal and About the Author. A small remainder dot at the lower page edge. "The time is 1917, and Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the United States into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry has been born: "picture plays," and with it has come an unprecedented ability to manipulate reality. America is on the eve of a dramatic and irreversible transformation. Amid this rapidly changing world of president-scholars, yellow journalists, shameless propagandists, philosophers, and child stars, Caroline Sanford, the unforgettable heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures and is discovered herself, as she vaults into stardom under the pseudonym of Emma Traxler. Swept up in the magic of movies, Caroline marvels that "reality could now be entirely invented and history revised." Suddenly, she knows "what God must have felt when he gazed upon chaos with nothing but himself upon his mind." Thus, Gore Vidal continues his magnificent series of historical novels - his biography of the United States. Caroline Sanford's rise to stardom is paralleled by the birth of Hollywood, complete with movie moguls and morphine addicts. Thus, just as Caroline must balance two lives - one in California, where she is a movie star and a producer, and one on the East Coast, where she is the intellectual and aggressive publisher of the Washington Tribune, a confidant of Henry Adams, and a senator's mistress - so too must the United States balance two power centers: "exotic, erotic, sinful Hollywood" and Washington, D.C. As Wilson fails to keep America out of the war and then struggles to realize his dream of a League of Nations, as power shifts in Washington from Democrats to Republicans, and as the Harding administration finds itself embroiled in corruption, Hollywood, America's other capital, is perfecting the art of image making, first convincing the American people of the German menace, then of the perils of Bolshevism. Behind it all, there are intrigues and scandals, love affairs and betrayals. This is history as brilliantly imagined and re-created by Gore Vidal. Through Caroline Sanford, her half-brother Blaise, William Randolph Hearst, President and Mrs. Wilson, Warren G. Harding, and the Duchess, as well as an array of other real and historical characters, Vidal captures America on the eve of its plummet from isolation and its subsequent rise to world hegemony. With Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks in the background, the bright young Franklin D. Roosevelt and the author's own grandfather, the blind Senator Gore, in the gallery, and Marcel Proust in the wings, Vidal once more proves himself a superb storyteller and an excruciatingly perceptive writer, fascinated by power, by intrigue, and by human nature's endless deceptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jack Ribik, dj design (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The book has light soiling to the edges of the page block. The dust jacket has slight fading to the spine and is unclipped ($19.95). 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Includes a letter from John Simon on Susan Sontag's essay Notes on Camp (which had appeared in the preceding issue) and an uncollected 6-paragraph reply by Sontag (Poague & Parsons G27). Issue also includes an account by Jack Ludwig of an early Mark Lane presentation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Unmarked copy with patches of outer toning. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ribik, Jack (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition maroon linen boards with gold front cover and spine lettering and decorations contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Gore Vidal; Preface; Appendix and About the Author. "The publication of a new collection of essays by Gore Vidal is always an event to be celebrate. At Home brings together twenty-four of his most stimulating, fearless, and provocative essays to appear since the publication of The Second American Revolution, winner of the 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. On subjects ranging from Henry James to Nancy Reagan, Oscar Wilde to Oliver North, Hollywood to Mongolia, Vidal once again confirms his reputation as "America's finest essayist" (The New Statesman). "As the curtain falls on the ancient Acting President and his 'Administration,' it is time to analyze just what this bizarre episode in American history was all about." So begins the essay "Armageddon?" which looks at the born-again Christians who, encouraged by Ronald Reagan's own apocalyptic leanings, envisage a final divine cataclysm after which only the truly elect will survive. In "The National Security State," Vidal offers his own earthly alternatives to our current policies. From Richard Nixon (with his "occasional odd burst of candor") to Ronald Reagan (with his "freedom from facts") Gore Vidal examines the leaders and lunacies of contemporary America. Vidal is more than a political polemicist. At Home also contains responses to his own critics, reminiscences of his extraordinary childhood, and appreciations of other writers - from the past (Henry James, William Dean Howells, Dawn Powell, Logan Pearsall Smith) and the present (Tennessee Williams, Frederic Prokosch, Paul Bowles, Anthony Burgess, Italo Calvino). As always, Vidal is crisp, elegant, incisive and brilliant." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "The American tradition of independent and curious learning is kept alive in the wit and the great expressiveness of Gore Vidal's criticism." - Citation of the National Book Critis Circle for The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, winner of 1982 NBCC award for criticism. "The essay has become the vehicle for Vidal's elegant, ironic proselytizing, and he has become a master of the form.Vidal is at home on a vast intellectual range.as provocative and perceptive a social and literary critic as America has today." - Newsweek.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon état. In-4, broché couv. illustrée rempliée, photographies pleines pages en couleurs, 207 pp. Mettant l'accent sur les rapports entre arts appliqués et art pictural dans l'oeuvre de Dufy, cet ouvrage permet de découvrir des réalisations et des thèmes méconnus, voire inédits, et propose une lecture originale d'une page essentielle de l'art moderne. in-4°.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. in-8 br. (16 x 24), 157 p., préface de François Dagognet, nombreuses illustrations photos, et reproductions, bon état. Les soieries de Raoul Dufy, tissées et imprimées, ont joué un grand rôle dans le renouvellement de la mode du premier quart du XXe siècle. Voici de quelle façon le peintre a voué vingt ans de sa vie à l'ornementation des tissus de luxe et comment la frivolité rejoint les recherches picturales les plus avancées à travers le dialogue entre l'artiste et l'industrie. Voir le sommaire sur photos jointes.

Erste Auflage. 24 x 16 cm. 157 S. Illustrierter OKarton. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Durchgehend mit Abbildungen versehen. Text in französischer Sprache.

In-8 broché, 116 pages à relié ( dos cassé ). Livre.

1992, Barcelona, Ediciones Grijalbo, La Puerta de Plata, 303 paginas, 20x13, cubiertas en tapa blanda ilustrada, buen estado.

Condition: Bon. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.