A Search For The King.
VIDAL, Gore.
A Search For The King.
First Edition of Gore Vidal's A Search For The King; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950.
$400.00
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Item Number: 126014
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First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Marie from Gore- all best wishes 1950.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Gore Vidal's story of the faithful troubadour Blondel's search for Richard the Lionheart, kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade. It interweaves historical characters with giants, dragons, werewolves, libidinous ladies of the manor and a very nasty vampire.
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