The Golden Age
by Vidal, Gore
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385500750
- ISBN 13
- 9780385500753
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Doubleday, 2000. First Edition, stated, and First Printing. Octavo, light gray boards, illustrated jacket, 467 pp. Fine / Fine. See scans. The seventh novel in Vidal's "Narratives of Empire" series, executed with Vidal's famously unambiguous, if perhaps single-minded at times, take on history and morality. Nice copy. L27
Synopsis
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays,many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Two novels in his Narratives of Empire series, Lincoln and 1876 , were the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, respectively. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States:Essays 1952-1992 , won the National Book Award. He divides his time between Ravello, Italy, and Los Angeles.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005093
- Title
- The Golden Age
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385500750
- ISBN 13
- 9780385500753
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 467
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Political, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern and Hypermodern Fiction; History / Government / Political / Societal;
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