In this collection Gore Vidal addresses a wide range of topics: writers and politicians, the CIA and the American Empire, Mark Twain and George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt and Edmund Wilson. There are literary essays on Sinclair Lewis and Dawn Powell, and political pieces on America's ambivalent attitude to the UN, the disunity of the United States, and the issue of race as the global village disintegrates into fragments of uncertain national identity. Vidal's barbed pen is unsparing of reputation, whether in a savage ...
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In this collection Gore Vidal addresses a wide range of topics: writers and politicians, the CIA and the American Empire, Mark Twain and George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt and Edmund Wilson. There are literary essays on Sinclair Lewis and Dawn Powell, and political pieces on America's ambivalent attitude to the UN, the disunity of the United States, and the issue of race as the global village disintegrates into fragments of uncertain national identity. Vidal's barbed pen is unsparing of reputation, whether in a savage assault on John Updike or an acidly humorous commentary on Bill Clinton. The book concludes with a claim regarding the extent of US military involvement in the British Isles.
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Add this copy of Virgin Islands to cart. $4.99, very good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1997 by Andre Deutsch Ltd.
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Add this copy of Virgin Islands to cart. $6.71, very good condition, Sold by Greener Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Abacus.
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Add this copy of Virgin Islands to cart. $12.45, fair condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Abacus.
Add this copy of Virgin Islands (First British Edition) to cart. $32.00, like new condition, Sold by Dan Pope Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from WEST Hartford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Andre Deutsch, London.
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Fine in Fine jacket. London: Andre Deutsch, 1997. First British edition, first printing. Full burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A clean, tight copy with no defects. Price (£17.99) intact on the front flap. Octavo (8vo), 245 pages. Vidal's ninth collection of essays, gathering his sharp and wide-ranging commentary on subjects from George Washington to the CIA, from Mark Twain to Bill Clinton. Gore Vidal (1925-2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, known for works such as "Burr, " "Lincoln, " and "Myra Breckinridge, " as well as his acerbic political and cultural criticism. The book was published only in the U.K. by Andre Deutsch in 1997. In the U.S., most of the essays from this period were later collected and republished in Gore's omnibus essay volumes such as "United States: Essays 1952-1992" (1993) and "The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000" (2001), but "Virgin Islands" itself was not issued by an American publisher as a stand-alone volume. The Andre Deutsch edition is the only true first edition.
Add this copy of Virgin Islands: a Dependency of United States Essays to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Andre Deutsch.
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Very good in very good jacket. 247 pages, 8vo, cloth, d.w.; pages rather toned. London: Andre Deutsch, (1997). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Add this copy of Virgin Islands: a Dependency of United States: Essays, to cart. $52.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Andre Deutsch.
Add this copy of Virgin Islands: a Dependency of United States: Essays, to cart. $57.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Andre Deutsch.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. 245pp. Pages lightly age toned, else fine in a fine dust jacket with faint toning on the spine. Includes essays on Edmund Wilson, Dawn Powell, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Burgess, FDR, Truman, Clinton-Gore and more.
Add this copy of Virgin Islands to cart. $87.50, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Andre Deutsch.
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Very Good. Or better. Considerably better. Book is Near Fine with bright, tight boards and light tanning of pages at the edges. DJ is VG+ with light shelf wear at the edges. Signed by Vidal at the top of the title page. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover.
Add this copy of Virgin Islands to cart. $102.00, new condition, Sold by Books Of Choice rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bloomington, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Andre Deutsch.
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As new book in an as new dust jacket. Signed by the author. 250 pages. First English edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Don Macpherson. 27 literary & political essays. Signed by Vidal on the title page. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Add this copy of Virgin Islands: a Dependency of United States: Essays to cart. $106.56, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Abacus.
