Kalki (The First Edition Society)

315, [4] pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by George H. Jones. A pre/post-apocalyptic focused on the leader of a religious cult who may cause the downfall of civilization. Vidal discusses over-population, feminism, bisexuality, and birth control in the novel, which takes its title from the Hindu goddess who ushers in the end of the fourth and final era of the life cycle.