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The City and the Pillar (First UK Edition)
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Gore Vidal's third novel, a milestone in gay literature.
Very Good plus in an about Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at the corners. Jacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with a pinhole on the center rear hinge, and a faintly faded spine.
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
- Royal Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155928
- Title
- The City and the Pillar (First UK Edition)
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Lehmann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Literature | LGBTQ Interest
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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