Cannibals and Christians - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good+ first printing of the first edition in Very Good, little chipped and creased dust-jacket, SIGNED and inscribed by author Norman Mailer on the title page. Photograph of a vertical city of the future tipped-in opposite title page; Critic Wilfrid Sheed described his impression of this nonfiction Mailer monologue as, "First, simple bafflement at a good writer running off at the mouth...slight suffocation and a tendency to cauliflower ear; next, a strong sense of being buried alive under several tons of ego-blubber; and finally, escape into pious reflections about What America Does to Its Writers." ; Large 8vo; xvi, 400 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23818
- Title
- Cannibals and Christians - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, C2014VM0228S
- Bookseller catalogs
- Author Collections / Mailer, Norman;
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- Good+
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