Burr (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

A$100 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

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VIDAL, Gore. Burr: A Novel. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt decorations to spine and covers. All edges gilt. Peach silk moiré endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. [viii], 430 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity and edition card. Originally published New York: Random House, 1973. Gore Vidal (1925–2012) — born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the grandson of a blind Oklahoma senator whose papers he read aloud as a child and whose political world he absorbed before he had a name for it — produced over the course of his career one of the most sustained and ambitious projects in American historical fiction: seven novels, collectively titled Narratives of Empire , tracing the history of the United States from the Revolution through the Second World War. Burr , published in 1973 and the first in the sequence chronologically though not in order of composition, was a finalist for the National Book Award and remains the most widely read of the seven. Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the third Vice President of the United States, the man who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, on 11 July 1804, and was subsequently tried for treason — acquitted, but politically destroyed — before spending years in European exile and finally return

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