Durable Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation, Gore Vidal, 1966, Nf Get 70% Off Today [FB3OCDnP]

Vidal, Gore. Friedrich Duerrenmatt. New York. Grove Press, Inc., 1966.

English, First Edition, NF, HC, Octavo 8 1/4" X 5 1/4, 165 pp.

Hardcover in brown cloth, Near Fine with very good white dust jacket. Some sunning and closed tear to top edge of dust jacket, now in Mylar. [xv] 165 pp.  Gore Vidal’s adaptation of Romulus takes Friedrich Duerrenmatt’s story of Romulus and the demise of the Western Roman Empire and shapes it into contemporary American politics and power. This amazing first edition contains both Gore Vidal’s Broadway adaptation, the original play by Friedrich, and a preface by Vidal.