Julian.
First Edition of Gore Vidal's Julian; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
Julian.
VIDAL, Gore.
Item Number: 126093
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964.
First edition of this monumental novel and one of Vidal’s finest. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “Valerie from Gore, October ’64.” The recipient, Valerie Vidal 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 good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. An exceptional association.
“Historical fiction in the true, honorable sense. . . . Full of vivid, richly wrought fictional detail" The Wall Street Journal).
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