The City and the Pillar

by Gore Vidal

$150 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

London: John Lehmann, 1949. First UK edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 270pp. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Spine a bit faded and dulled.Vidal's third novel which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual main character,Vidal 1925-2012 in this novel used what he called a flat, gray, naturalistic style. The novel became a sensation but

• Binding: Hardcover

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