WILLIWAW [Signed]

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 222 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Black spine with blue wave designs and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$2.50", has mild shelving wear, light chipping along the extremities, bending wear along the head and tail edges, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges, and light fraying along the corners. Textblock has light soiling on few pages, stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Gore Vidal on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page.

Gore Vidal's debut novel written when he was 19 serving as first mate on a ship in the Aleutian Islands. The title, "Williwaw", being a word thought to have Native American origins for a blast of wind descending from the mountains into the sea. 1393922. Special Collections.