Books and Manuscripts

Mailer, Norman
The Naked and the Dead
New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., (1948). First edition. 8vo. (viii), 721 pp. Handsomely bound in full blue niger, stamped in gilt, red and white stars and stripes onlay to boards and spine; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; illustrated book-plate on front paste-down; original dust-jacket bound in at rear; in quarter blue matching niger slip case and chemise, spine of slip case faded. 

A handsome copy of Mailer's first novel, attractively bound in a patriotic stars and stripes binding.