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Palimpsest; A Memoir
by Vidal, Gore
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679440380
- ISBN 13
- 9780679440383
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association Copy. Inscribed by Vidal to his half-sister Valerie on the half-title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.95), toned at the spine. Pictorial paper on the boards, a bit bumped at the corners, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Vidal's memoir of his first forty years of life, "beautifully rendered anecdotes intermixed with meditations on writing, history, acting, and politics.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5382
- Title
- Palimpsest; A Memoir
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679440380
- ISBN 13
- 9780679440383
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Literary Memoir, Politics, American Studies, Politics, Tennessee Williams, Kerouac, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Paul Bowles, Gay Authors
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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- Association Copy
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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