The City and The Pillar Revised
- New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1965
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1965. Revised Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth-covered boards, with blocking and titling stamped in black and red; dustjacket; 249pp. Modest shelfwear, spine ends gently nudged, dampstains to spine panel, foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Muriel Nasser, unclipped (priced $4.95) with modest shelfwear and fading, and foxing to flaps and verso; Good. Vidal's third novel, and a break-through work of queer literature in America. "Now almost twenty years later Gore Vidal has made a new version of this famous book...Also included in this volume is Mr. Vidal's 'Sex and Law'" (from dustjacket).
"It appears to be the first major American novel written by a respectable man of letters to break a one-hundred-year-old national taboo: in the nineteenth century males could kiss each other but not disrobe; in the twentieth century they could undress together but not kiss; in The City and the Pillar they do both" (from AUSTEN p.118-119). YOUNG 2654.
"It appears to be the first major American novel written by a respectable man of letters to break a one-hundred-year-old national taboo: in the nineteenth century males could kiss each other but not disrobe; in the twentieth century they could undress together but not kiss; in The City and the Pillar they do both" (from AUSTEN p.118-119). YOUNG 2654.