The Smithsonian Institution
by Vidal, Gore
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save not just himself, but humanity. Gore Vidal has written some of the finest and most inventive novels in modern times. Readers of such bestsellers as Burr, Lincoln, Duluth, and 1876 will revel in this, his latest foray into the American scene. A brilliant and vividly imaginative tale about some of the key events of the twentieth century, The Smithsonian Institution is a dramatic masterwork of comedy and allusion.
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Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Signed First Edition.. 260 pages, 8vo. Limited Edition, signed by the author Gore Vidal. Bound in genuine leather. Minor shelfwear. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition.. Item Price
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Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, Franklin Center; 1998.. 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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Random House, 1998-02-24. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed. First printing. Inscribed (to Herb Yellin, the founder and proprietor of the Lord John Press) and SIGNED by Gore Vidal on the title page. The volume is bumped on the spine crown. The unclipped dust jacket, sleeved in mylar, is fine. Item Price
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The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel
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Little, Brown, 1998. Hardcover. As New/As New. Large, sturdy book, purple cloth, black lettering very fine on spine, black color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 260 pages. DJ glossy with a stunning color-illustration of romantic couple in grass and flowers outside the Smithsonian Institution on front, background in reds, yellow and orange. DJ and book, both As… Read more about this item Item Price
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