Rocking the Boat.
First Edition of Rocking the Boat; Inscribed by Gore Vidal To His Sister
Rocking the Boat.
VIDAL, Gore.
$300.00
Item Number: 126579
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 1962.
First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author, “Valerie — with semi-fraternal best wishes & God-paternal blessings for Christmas ’62. Gore.” The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, laminated by Vidal. An exceptional association.