VIDAL, Gore.
Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s.
New York : Random House , 1990.
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s; Inscribed by Him to His Stepmother
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author, "Gore Vidal, all love to Kit." The recipient, Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency, only six years older than Gore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional example.
Hollywood is the fifth historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. Published in 1990, it brings back the fictional Caroline Sanford, Blaise Sanford and James Burden Day and the real Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst from Empire (the fourth novel in the series). Events are seen through the eyes of the Sanfords, Day, and the historical Jess Smith, a member of the Ohio Gang.
Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s.
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