Rocking the Boat.
Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First edition. 300 pages.
Volume is bound in turquoise green cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Publisher's device is blind stamped on front cover. Book is in excellent condition. Intact dust jacket, with price of $5.75 on front flap, displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in paper-backed mylar cover.
The author's first collection of essays. A discussion of politics, literature and theater covering such figures and topics as John F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, the HUAC, Eugene O'Neill, Dos Passos, Mailer, the Dreyfus case, Robert Graves, Evelyn Waugh, Ayn Rand, and Vidal's own play writing for television.