The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer - 1964

New York, NY: Signet/NAL, 1964 Signet/NAL, New York. 1964. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. Stated 16th Printing Q2460. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; scattered light edge bumps; small creases at top and bottom of the rear wrap; sunfading to textblock tinted top. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split (some paper wrinkling but not from the spine); text is secure in binding. tinted textblock edges. 559 pp 12mo. Written by a WWII veteran of the pacific theater. Published in 1948 and hailed as one of the finest American novels to come out of World War II for its intense reality of the horror and boredom of war. The story concerns a platoon of 13 American soldiers who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei in the Pacific. With almost journalistic detail, Mailer records the lives of men at war, characterizing the soldiers individually in flashbacks that illuminate their pasts. A clean very presentable copy.