Death in the Fifth Position.
by VIDAL, Gore (under the name Edgar Box)
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About This Item
Heinemann, London., 1954. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 186. The first of Vidal's pseudonymous crime novels.Signed by the author on the title page using both names.Very near fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper. Scarce.
Synopsis
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.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- VIDALGOR007851
- Title
- Death in the Fifth Position.
- Author
- VIDAL, Gore (under the name Edgar Box)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Heinemann, London.
- Date Published
- 1954
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