In A Yellow Wood
by Gore Vidal
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in black cloth with gilt titles on spine Slight bumping on spine ends Two ink signatures of previous owners on the ffep and the bookplate of one of them on the front pastedown Minor spotting on endpapers, but text is otherwise entirely clean Unclipped DJ has a small chip missing at both the top and the bottom of the jacket spine, and slight foxing on jacket back
From the publisher:
By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde by day a wasteland of hollow men, lonely apartments and empty morning coffee stands Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city And when Carla turns up unexpectedly from his more passionate past, Robert finds he must choose between the fixed path of money-making and dull conventionality and the fraught, uncertain path of love and freedom
Gore Vidal (1925--2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics He twice sought officeâ€"unsuccessfullyâ€"as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the US House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the US Senate (for California) 216 pp.
From the publisher:
By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde by day a wasteland of hollow men, lonely apartments and empty morning coffee stands Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in Europe and settled in a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroking business The haunting memories of nights of love spent in Florence are suppressed as he struggles to succeed in an arid city And when Carla turns up unexpectedly from his more passionate past, Robert finds he must choose between the fixed path of money-making and dull conventionality and the fraught, uncertain path of love and freedom
Gore Vidal (1925--2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics He twice sought officeâ€"unsuccessfullyâ€"as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the US House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the US Senate (for California) 216 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AA1723
- Title
- In A Yellow Wood
- Author
- Gore Vidal
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
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