Author: KAPLAN, FRED
Title: Gore Vidal - a Biography
Description: New York, Doubleday. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780385477031). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING November 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a gift inscription written on a sticker to front endpaper else Fine with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. xi + 850 pages. 68 illustrations. The distinguished Professor of English literature's acclaimed and definitive biography of the novelist, cultural critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, provocateur, actor, and brilliant American icon that is Gore Vidal. Kaplan had complete access to Vidal's papers, letters, and private photographs, as well as television and newsreel footage and was guaranteed a free hand by Vidal to write as he saw fit. The result is a lively, witty, and textured life of a literary colossus. PLEASE NOTE - A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.29 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 2. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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