Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

Messiah.

VIDAL, Gore.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, dust jacket. 254pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket quite edgeworn and rubbed, with some edge chips and 2" paper loss at spine tail. Item #43073

A tight, decent first edition of this early Vidal novel parodying religion, advertising and brain washing in 1950s California.

Price: $25.00