Palimpsest. A Memoir by Vidal, Gore - 1996

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.: Penguin, 1996. First paperback. Very Good+. Nearly perfect, save for slight browning of text due to the cheap paper used and very slight edge wear 455 pp.

Abacus, London, 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. VIII, 440 pages, includes index, text illustrated with black-and-white photographs (32 pages). Translucent illustrated dust jacket laid over illustrated softcover binding. The dustjacket has a couple of short splits across the top edge. age toning of the page edges. "I am not my own subject," Gore Vidal used to say. But now, surprisingly, he has turned his wit and elegant storytelling gift to a candid memoir of the first 40 years of his life. Palimpsest is written from the vantage point of the Vidal's library in his villa on the Italian coast. As visitors come and go, his memory ranges back and forth across a rich history. -- front fold over blurb This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in… Read More

Abacus, London, 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. VIII, 440 pages, includes index, text illustrated with black-and-white photographs (32 pages). Translucent illustrated dust jacket laid over illustrated softcover binding. The dustjacket has a couple of short splits around the top of the spine. "I am not my own subject," Gore Vidal used to say. But now, surprisingly, he has turned his wit and elegant storytelling gift to a candid memoir of the first 40 years of his life. Palimpsest is written from the vantage point of the Vidal's library in his villa on the Italian coast. As visitors come and go, his memory ranges back and forth across a rich history. -- front fold over blurb Size: Trade Paperback. The book is a secondhand book with reading creases to the spine, and darkening of the page edges, but is otherwise clean, and free of annotation.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity… Read More

Random House, 1995. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Photos. Lovely copy, fresh, clean and unmarked.

London, Andre Deutsch 1995.. viii+435pp. 8vo. Original printed illustrated boards with dust wrapper. Owner's name on ffe. otherwise a near fine copy.. First edition.

London, Andre Deutsch 1995.. viii+435pp. 8vo. Original printed illustrated boards with dust wrapper. A near fine copy.. First edition.

London, Andre Deutsch 1995.. viii+436pp. 8vo. Original illustrated boards with dust wrapper. Black and white photographic prints. A near fine copy.. First edition.

New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (viii), 440. Illustrated. Index.
This is a most fascinating memoir. Here is some of his observations about President John F. Kennedy: "It is always a delicate matter when a friend or acquaintance becomes president. Ease must be maintained, yet one may not call him by his first name or walk ahead of him into a room.…Jack was overconscious of his relative youth.…Certainly, to me, seven years younger, Jack seemed—and indeed was—mildly decrepit. He moved stiffly when he did not limp painfully from a bad back: war wound was the official line; touch football, the reality."

London: Andre Deutsch, 1995 8vo. original pictorial printed boards (a trifle rubbed & marked; lacks dustwrapper); pp. viii, 460, with illustrations. A very good copy.. First UK. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket.

London: Abacus Books, 1999. Paperback, 20 cm, 445 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 9780349108001. .