Vidal Box (193 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. super.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. The dust jacket to this book has some rips along the folds and the former owner used some scotch tape here. There is household writing on the cover page inside. The text of this book remains clean and presentable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The hardcover is in good condition, with the dust jacket exhibiting minor wear, especially along the top edge. The binding is tight, and the pages are clean and unmarked. No inscriptions or library markings are present, maintaining the book's appeal for collectors. minor wear, notably at the top edge.…

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. USEFUL Paperback book in the POCKETBOOK style. The book is mishapen. The covers don't line up perfectly. CLEAN PAGES. Some crease to the spine. A bit of shelf and edge wear. Surface rub to the covers. A fold mark to the covers. Some slight yellowing to the pages and the spine a bit dry. This edition remains presentable.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A FIRST EDITION by Random House of Gore Vidal's Empire. Clean dust jacket copy from 1987. Nice Quality.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1970s reprint of an early 1950s mystery written by GoreVidal under the Edgar Box pseudonym. Vintage V-54. As public relations man for a new ballet company, Peter Cutler Sargeant III finds his job rather more complicated when a dancer is killed on stage. Light edge wear. A very good or better copy.…

Hardback. Condition: Good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of the third novel in the "Peter Cutler Sargeant II" series. Light edge wear. Slight reading crease to the front cover near spine. In very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of the second novel in the "Peter Cutler Sargeant II" series. Light edge wear. Slight reading crease to the front cover near spine. In very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Medium brown cloth boards with gold lettering. Binding is tight and square. A light moisture stain on front end paper bottom corners. A small stain on outer side page edges. Stated first Random House edition. 2nd printing. The dust jacket has been price clipped and has very light fading down spine. Gift inscription to previous owner on inside page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Compilation Edition. Death In The Fifth Position, Death Likes It Hot, Death Before Bedtime; 441 pages; Minor smudges to exterior edge of pages and covers. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Bantam edition published November 1978. Some shelf wear. Binding is unbroken, text is unmarked. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition/Second Printing. first edition/second printing book is tight with no markings, short gift inscription on half title page, minor rubbing to wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Printing, Second Edition. The second of a three mystery trilogy written by Gore Vidal under the pseudonym of Edgar Box. Originally published in the early 1950s, the books feature a young PR man and amateur sleuth, Peter Cutler Sargeant II. In "Death Before Bedtime," Sargeant is hired by a Senator with presidential ambitions and travels with the politician's beautiful daughter to Washington, D.C., where the Senator himself is murdered shortly after Sargeant arrives, presenting the PR man with a locked room mystery and a house full of suspects. With an introduction by Vidal explaining his three-book venture into the mystery genre. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a 3/4-inch tear at the bottom of the fold between the back panel and the dj's rear flap, and a second tear of the same length with a crease on the top edge of the front panel as other minor edge-wear. None of the wear significantly affects the jacket's design or lettering. It is not price-clipped. A decent reading copy of an interesting byway in Vidal's career.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. VERY GOOD CONDITION.bit clear tape back cover; black titles on tan paper cover.showing B&W DRAWING OF YOUNG GIRL & LARGE ROPE, DEAD ON WOODEN DANCE FLOOR.BALLERINA SHOES. ***NOTE; THIS IS NOT THE SIGNET OLD BOOK COVER, BUT 1979 is very correct date.*** ; 144 pages; when a rising star in the company is killed during the performancedropped from thirty feet above the stage, crashing to her death in a perfect fifth positionSargent has a real case on his hands.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jacket slightly edge-worn, frayed at head of spine and torn at top of front joint. Not price-clipped, in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Later Edition. 2nd printing, with complete number line beginning with 2. Originally published in 1952 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Peter Cutler Sargeant III is a NYC press agent hired by the Grand Saint Petersburg Ballet in hopes that he can put a positive spin on the company's celebrated choreographer Jed Wilbur, one time member of the Communist Party. Set during the time of HUAC and the blacklists, Communist ties quickly become secondary to murder, and our PR man finds himself an amateur detective intimately mixed up with various members of the troupe. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. "First Edition" stated. Not only is this "good" dust jacket missing the bottom inch of its spine, the jacket is 1/8th-inch too short for the book -- was probably trimmed to fit into some earlier jacket protector. Small black stains to endpapers where said earlier protector was once taped down. Vidal, of course, was forced for years to make his living writing mysteries under the "Box" pseudonym -- mysteries loaded with HETERO love scenes -- since the New York Times, which had praised and celebrated his earliest work, refused to review or even list his books after he declared he was a homo- (or should that be "bi-"?) sexual. Go ahead, Fading Gray Lady, let's hear you celebrate your "inclusive" credentials. Then show us your exposes from the 1930s about Stalin starving millions to death in the Ukraine, or your early 1940s reporting about Hitler's death camps, or your reviews of the works of known gay authors in the 1950s. Waiting . . . 223 pp. Reduced from $30.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Later Edition. 2nd printing, with complete number line beginning with 2. Originally published in 1952 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Peter Cutler Sargeant III is a NYC press agent hired by the Grand Saint Petersburg Ballet in hopes that he can put a positive spin on the company's celebrated choreographer Jed Wilbur, one time member of the Communist Party. Set during the time of HUAC and the blacklists, Communist ties quickly become secondary to murder, and our PR man finds himself an amateur detective intimately mixed up with various members of the troupe. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Ed. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Originally published in 1953 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. Highly respected United States Senator Leander Rhodes asks Manhattan based public relations expert Peter Sargent to visit him at his home. He wants Peter to help him develop his PR plan for his run for the presidency and to stay on staff to work the media. However, the night before Rhodes is to announce his candidacy, someone murders the senator in his bed. Out of work at least as a presidential candidate's publicist, Sargent investigates who killed the respected reactionary politician. Book.…

Paperback. Reprints Signet. 1484, reading copy mystery novel, paperback.

Paperback. Reprints Signet. 2505 good, creases mystery novel, paperback.

Paperback. first PB. 1093, good mystery novel, paperback.

Paperback. 4th. 2540 very good mystery novel, paperback.

Paperback. Reprints Signet. 1475, good mystery novel, paperback.