Death Before Bedtime, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1991. The Armchair Detective Library. 213 pages. SIGNED by the Author. Book and Slipcase are in FINE condition. Copy #26 of 100. ; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.0 inches; 213 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 213 pages. Originally published in 1953. Limited edition. Published simultaneously in trade, Limited and Collector editions, with a new 5-page introduction by the author. First Armchair Detective Library edition (first printing, with number line including the 1). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. In a fine slipcase. One of 26 lettered copies. This is copy 'W.' Signed by the author as Gore Vidal on the limitation page.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Inscribed by Vidal under his pseudonym to fellow author William Targ: "For Wm Targ / Edgar Box." Very Good with the usual discoloration to the cloth and some foxing to the front pastedown. In a Very Good dust jacket that is foxed on the verso, with chipping along the top edge, and a mostly separated front flap fold. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK Edition. First Impression. A Fine copy in black cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, unfaded, with one tiny chip from heel of spine panel. 213pp. SIGNED by Gore Vidal [the real author of the three Peter Cutler Sergeant II detective stories] on the title page. Q09159.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 223 pages. First edition, first printing. His second of only three mystery books he wrote under the pseudonym Edgar Box. Peter Cutler Sargeant, III solves his second crime of the murder of a Senator. Inscribed by Vidal & Box on the half title page. Near fine book with slight fading to the top and bottom edges in a very good+ dust jacket with a 1/2" chip to the top of the spine and light wear to the corners. A very nice copy! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET VERY GOOD+. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, GORE VIDAL, on a special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. BOX IS A PSEUDOYNYM OF GORE VIDAL. 1st PRINTING. HANDSOME, COLLECTIBLE COPY. Signed by Author.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First UK Edition, signed by Vidal on the title page. About Fine in a Very Good plus, lightly spine-toned dust jacket with some rubbing to the front and rear panels and small chips at the spine ends. Signed.

First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 213. The second of Vidal's pseudonymous crime novels.Signed by the author on the title page using both names.Free endpapers partially tanned. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper with a few nicks.

First Thus. First Thus (originally published 1952-54). Octavo (23cm.) 3 volumes, each one of 26 lettered, signed copies of a total edition of 126. Bound uniformly in maroon cloth, titled in gilt on covers and spines; slipcases; publisher's clear acetate dustjackets. All three volumes Fine in the original clear acetate jackets and slipcases. Attractive set of these signed, limited reprints of works originally issued under Vida'ls pseudonym, Edgar Box, in the early- to mid-1950s, featuring detective Edgar Cutler Sargeant. Includes:. Death in the Fifth Position (1991) - Letter "D", signed Gore Vidal Death Before Bedtime (1990) - Letter "I", signed Gore Vidal Death Likes It Hot (1990) - Letter "C", signed Edgar Box and Gore Vidal. Signed.