Williwaw, Gore Vidal
First edition, first printing of Vidal's debut novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the flyleaf – "For Sunny - The incomparable - in memory of those merry days at Sutton / her loving friend - / Gore Vidal 1946."
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1946. Publisher's original black cloth, titled and decorated in blue; pp. 222. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, minor wear and rubbing to boards with a touch of fraying to spine heel, topstain a bit faded. Some offsetting and discoloration to endpapers, else internally clean. Jacket shows general light shelfwear and rubbing, toning to back panel. Protected in archival mylar.