Death in the Fifth Position

Vidal, Gore; Writing as Edgar Box

ISBN 10: 0922890625 / ISBN 13: 9780922890620

Published by Armchair Detective Library,, New York, 1991

About this Item

First printing, limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies; this being the number 43. Signed by Gore Vidal. Book and slip case in fine, as new condition.

Seller Inventory # 004633

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Death in the Fifth Position
• Publisher: Armchair Detective Library,, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0922890625
• ISBN 13: 9780922890620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

First edition, limited to 126 copyies with 26 lettered copies and 100 numbered. This one is "42" of 100. Originally published in 1952 under the pen name of Edgar Box. Issued here with a new 5-page introduction by Vidal. Signed on the limitation page at the beginning of the book.

About the Author

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-three novels, five plays, two memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays. His United States: Essays, 1952–1992 received the National Book Award.