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New York: Howard Fertig, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. xi, [xii-xiv], 738, plus appendices. Beige cloth boards with tan dust jacket. Includes appendices A through G, introduction by the author and editorial note by the publisher. Jacket is sunned along spine, front flap dog-eared. Slight bumping at head of spine.

New York: Howard Fertig, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Howard Fertig, 1978. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Normal Mailer loosely laid in at front. Quarto. Unpaginated. Printed dust jacket. Gray cloth boards stamped in black; tan endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with a few minor nicks; general soiling and rubbing, heavier to rear. Boards show a few bumps with light wear to edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of an early Mailer work, originally written when he was 20 years old and three years before he began work on The Naked and the Dead.

Howard Fertig, 1978-10-01. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Howard Ferig, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Thick quarto. Original cloth in lightly worn DJ. Signature of Norman Mailer on a slip of lined paper laid into mylar-protected jacket.

Howard Fertig, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 738 pages followed by appendices. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. The first publication of a novel Mailer wrote at the age of 20, three years before he began work on The Naked and the Dead. Issued in an edition of 1,000 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book.

New York: Howard Ferig, 1978. First edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's review slip laid in. Written at the age of twenty while awaiting induction into the Army. This is the first publication of the book in the form of a facsimile of Mailer's typescript draft showing extensive handwritten corrections, additions and deletions which appear on nearly every page. One of only 1000 copies printed [Lennons, Works and Days, p.111] -- many of which must have gone to libraries, given the relative scarcity of the book. 4to beige cloth boards; 738 pages plus preliminaries and various appendices. Fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny nick to head of spine and few tears (internally repaired with archival tape).

Howard Fertig, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 738 pages followed by appendices. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. The first publication of a novel Mailer wrote at the age of 20, three years before he began work on The Naked and the Dead. Issued in an edition of 1,000 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with a few short closed tears at the edges. With a warm inscription by Mailer to his agent at the time the book was first written, Berta Koslow, whose unsuccessful efforts to get the book published are described by Mailer in the introduction. 'To Berta, in all the pleasure of the fine evening we had this year. But then who but you, dear Berta, can find as many memories in this book as myself. With thanks, then. Thirty-four years late, all my thanks. / Norman / March 1979 / Which is to say that your presence all those years ago were so nice and so fortuitous that it gave me a good feeling about things to come to a young writer. See -- I can't express myself clearly… Read More