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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 .

New York: Random House. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394536495 . A beautiful stated first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by award-winning author Norman Mailer directly on the half title page; Norman Mailer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night, returns to fiction with his character study of one of modern history's most undefinable figures---Adolph Hitler. Using the narrative voice of a young SS operative, Mailer gives us detailed background into Hilter's family life and circumstances which shaped the leader for better or worse ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Random House. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375500979 . A beautiful stated first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with the "A Signed first edition" statement printed on the dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Norman Mailer on a tipped in page as issued by the publisher; Norman Mailer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night, created a giant retrospective and portrait of the 20th century through his fiction and reportage; 8vo; 1281 pages; Signed by Author .

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Fine+. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in Very Fine condition, SIGNED by author Norman Mailer; The story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and careless women. He wakes one morning remembering nothing of the prior night. His Porsche is soaked with blood and in a secluded corner in nearby woods he finds a severed blonde head. Is he a murderer? Can he reconstruct the missing hours of that terrible evening? This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker, simply superb quality, Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 229, [3] pages; 14601; Signed by Author .

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394537866 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally unblemished dust-jacket, signed and inscribed by author Norman Mailer; The story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and careless women. He wakes one morning remembering nothing of the prior night. His Porsche is soaked with blood and in a secluded corner in nearby woods he finds a severed blonde head. Is he a murderer? Can he reconstruct the missing hours of that terrible evening; 8vo; [viii],229,[3] pages; Signed by Author .

Paris: Éditions Bernard Grasset. Fine. 1967. First French Edition. Softcover. First French edition in just about Fine condition, French flaps, wraps ever so slightly tanned. Signed and inscribed in English by author Norman Mailer on the half title page. Originally published in 1951 as An American Dream, here translated from into French by Pierre Alien; In his second novel, multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in "The Executioner's Song." In "American Dream," Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty; 8vo; [1-9], 10-304, [305-312] pages; Signed by Author .