Beschreibung:

Mailer, Norman (1923-2007) The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1948]. Octavo, first edition of Mailer's first book, with the author's clipped signature tipped onto the title page, evidence of old rubber cement to verso of signed slip and corresponding section of title page; publisher's "R" inside a circle printed on the copyright page; with dust jacket, illustrated by Karov, chipped at top edge of front joint, with loss, crumpled a bit at the foot, with small loss at front fore edge and at foot of spine; bound in full publisher's black cloth, chips with loss of surface at head and tail, corners bumped, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.