THE TIME OF OUR TIME by Mailer, Norman - 1998

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on front endpaper, thick quarto (9 1/2" x 6 3/8" x 2 3/4" !), black quarter cloth with gold lettering over red boards, [i-ix] + x-xix-[xx] +1286 numbered pages + [2] About the Author + "About the Type." SIGNED by NORMAN MAILER on a tipped-in page issued by the publisher. This lovely Beast of a Book consists of Mailer-selected and -edited selections from his many books and essays that are designed to illuminate the changes that have taken place in America over 50 years. Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His best-known work is often considered to be The Executioner's Song (1979) winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mailer's Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which uses devices of literary fiction in fact-based journalism. Mailer was also respected for his essays, the most famous of which is "The White Negro." He was a cultural commentator and critic, expressing his often pugnatious and controversial views through his novels, journalism, essays, and frequent media appearances. Condition: Correct number sequence for first imprint. No writing, underlining, remainder marks, or bookplates. Spine is tight, square, and crisp. Boards are flat with square corners. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. Dust jacket cover sticker states "Autographed Copy." "AS NEW" condition: a first edition/first printing is protected with an archival Mylar dust jacket cover. SIGNED & in FINE CONDITION! A very thin line of white binder's residue lies along the front cover's gutter.