Death Before Bedtime by Vidal Gore (78 results)

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.…

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

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

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

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

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First printing. Moderate wear around the extremities of the cover. R3A.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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: Used-Very Good. Pap. Minor shelf wear.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condition: New.

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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.…

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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. A very fine copy of this Book Club original omnibus edition of these mysteries in a very fine DJ.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Very slight edge rubbing, with very light age toning of page edges, in slightly edge rubbed DJ. First printing of the compilation of mysteries done by Gore Vidal under the name Edgar Box. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 457 pages.…

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.…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Very good showing fading, creasing to covers.

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

Condition: New.

Paperback. first PB. 1093, very good , faint creases mystery novel, paperback.

Paperback. Reprints Signet. 1526, very good -fine, reading crease mystery novel, paperback.

hardcover. Condition: Like new. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. Very light shelf and corner wear on dust jacket.