Signed Gore Vidal Book Plus 5 First Editions, 6 Total Hardback Vintage First order Editions

order Signed Gore Vidal Book Plus 5 First Editions, 6 Total Hardback Vintage First Editions

Signed Kalki A Novel by Gore Vidal- 1978 First Edition signed. Better than good condition with very minor signs of age. Signature of Gore Vidal on the first page. Hardcover with dust jacket, tight bindings and intact pages.

Inventing a Nation- Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal- First Edition 2003 Yale University- Book is in Very Good condition with very limited signed of age or use. Hardcover with dust jacket, tight bindings and intact pages.

Burr by Gore Vidal- First Edition 1973- Good condition and includes and inscription to the previous owner on the first page. Price has been clipped and there is discolorations and foxing to the exterior. Hardcover with dust jacket, tight bindings and intact pages.

Hollywood- A Novel of the American 1920s by Gore Vidal- 1990 First Edition- Good condition with some minor discolorations and signs of wear. Hardcover with dust jacket, tight bindings and intact pages.

Empire- A novel by Gore Vidal 1987 First Edition. Better than good condition with some minor discolorations and signs of wear. Hardcover with dust jacket, tight bindings and intact pages.

1876 by Gore Vidal, 1976 First Edition. Better than good condition with some minor discolorations and signs of wear. Hardcover with dust jacket, tight bindings and intact pages.

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California).

A grandson of a U.S. Senator, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer.

As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His style of narration evoked the time and place of his stories, and delineated the psychology of his characters. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, the plot being about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship. In the historical novel genre, Vidal recreated the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–363) in Julian (1964). Julian was the Roman emperor who attempted to re-establish Roman polytheism to counter Christianity. In social satire, Myra Breckinridge (1968) explores the mutability of gender roles and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores: 94–100  In Burr (1973) and Lincoln (1984), each protagonist is presented as "A Man of the People" and as "A Man" in a narrative exploration of how the public and private facets of personality affect the national politics of the United States