Gore Vidal 16312

The Smithsonian Institution

Random House, 1998. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 260. It's Good Friday 1939, and a teenage math prodigy from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. Someone is also fooling around with the space-time continuum, and the preternaturally gifted teenager turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the fourth dimension. In the subterranean laboratory, he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer and other scientists who will soon be at Los Alamos. Meanwhile, upstairs, the displays in the museum come to life after hours, and an adventurous First Lady from the inaugural-gowns exhibit takes it upon herself to show him the sexual ropes.Abraham Lincoln - along with Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Adolf Hitler - turns up here as the teenage narrator tries not only to make sense of history but to intervene in key events that shaped the twentieth century. Questions about political responsibility and personal sacrifice are deftly woven into a surreal narrative of quantum physics, string theory, clones, the sexual habits of Eskimos, and the domestic arrangements of various U.S. presidents. ISBN: 9780375501210. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Gore Vidal 16312

The Smithsonian Institution

Little, Brown, 1998. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 260. Good Friday, 1939, and T. a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is expected. An old man, Bentsen, shows him around, and T. realises that all is not as it seems. As he goes to examine a Native American exhibit, he is drawn magically into the nineteenth-century world of a reservation of Sioux Indians. They like what they see of T. and immediately get the pot boiling. T. is forced to take refuge in the tent of a young Squaw. They become lovers, and she helps him to escape back to the safety of the Smithsonian. Back with Bentsen, T. explores the Smithsonian further and begins to fathom the mysteries of time travel. The Smithsonian scientists have discovered how to get back to the past, but still don't know how to travel to the future. T. puts his brilliant mathematical brain to the problem. However, given a glimpse into the future, T. sees his own untimely death, and becomes determined to prevent the outbreak of WWII. ISBN: 9780316645867. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Gore Vidal 16312

The Smithsonian Institution

Mariner Books, 1999. Paperback. Pp: 260. ISBN: 9780156006484. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Vidal, Gore

The Smithsonian Institution

London, Abacus, 19990101. 272 pp. Paperback. Fine.

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VIDAL, GORE.

The Smithsonian Institution. A Novel.

First UK Edition; 8vo; pp. 263; original cloth, dustjacket, torn out title page from another copy signed by the author included, a fine copy. (London), Little, Brown and Company, (1998).

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VIDAL, GORE.

The Smithsonian Institution.

First Limited Edition; 8vo; pp. [xiv], 260, [vi]; marbled endpapers, illustrated double page coloured frontispieceby Mark Rogalski specially commissioned for this edition, all edges gilt, full leather binding, title lettered in gilt on spine, raised bands, gilt decoration to boards, fine copy Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, Franklin Centre; 1998. This limited, leather-bound edition has been privately printed and personally signed by the author.

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VIDAL, GORE.

The Smithsonian Institution.

First Limited Edition; 8vo; pp. [xiv], 260, [vi]; marbled endpapers, illustrated double page frontispiece by Mark Rogalski specially commissioned for this edition, illustrated title page, all edges gilt, bound in dark blue leather, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration on spine and boards, raised bands, the binding design was created by Martha Phillips, a fine copy. Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center; 1998. This first edition of "The Smithsonian Institution is limited to one thousand four hundred signed copies

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VIDAL, GORE

The Smithsonian Institution

New York: Random House, 1998. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0375501215. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright"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 polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively 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 361–63) in Julian (1964). Julian was the Roman emperor who used religious tolerance to re-establish pagan polytheism to counter the political subversion of Christian monotheism. In social satire, Myra Breckinridge (1968) explores the mutability of gender roles and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Vidal, Gore

The Smithsonian Institution _ a Novel

New York, Random House, 1998. Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. brown papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 260 pp Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy. Very good/very good.

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VIDAL, GORE

The Smithsonian Institution

London: Little, Brown, 1998. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 260 pages, jacket image by John Ennis.. Very Good .

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Gore Vidal

Washington D. C ; Two Sisters a Novel in the Form of a Memoir ; the Smithsonian Institution a Novel

London , Heinemann and Little, Brown and Company , 1967-1998. First edition. Hardback. Three first edition novels by the American author Gore Vidal. The first edition. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual. His novel and essays interrogate social and sexual norms. His novels explore the nature of corruption in public life. Washington D.C was published in 1967. It is the sixth novel in the Narratives of Empire series of historical novels. The story begins in 1937 and continues into the Cold War. It follows the families of Senator James Burden Day and the influential newspapers published in Blaise Sanford. This is the least historical of the series. Two Sisters: A Novel in the Form of A Memoir was published in 1970. It is a novelistic memoir telling of a love affair in post-war Paris; featuring notebooks, diaries, and vivid fragments reflective of the author's thoughts on love, sex, death, literature, and politics. The Smithsonian Institution is an alternative history first published in 1998. The novel is a fictional account of the adventures of 'T' as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create a neutron bomb. In the original publisher's cloth in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally very smart. The dust wrappers are bright and clean. Marginal age toning to the dust wrapper and flyleaf of Two Sisters. A small tide mark on the reverse of The Smithsonian Institution A Novel. A small closed tear on the cover of Washington D.C which has been reinforced on the reverse. The boards are bright and clean. Light marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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