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Lot 228
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 -
400
Price Realized
$625
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Lot Description
MAILER, Norman (1923-2007). A group of 13 works , including:
The Naked and the Dead. 1948. FIRST ISSUE, IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. -- Another copy (jacket price-clipped). -- Barbary Shore. 1951. -- The Deer Park. 1955. -- The White Negro. 1957. Original pictorial wraps. FIRST ISSUE. -- Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters. 1962. -- Another copy in original printed wrappers. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MAILER. -- The Deer Park A Play. 1967. REVIEW COPY with typed letter and card from the literary editor of the Dial Press laid in. -- Why are we in Vietnam? 1967. Second issue. -- Marilyn: A Biography. 1973. FIRST TRADE ISSUE. -- Ancient Evenings. 1983. Original slipcase, shrinkwrap present. LIMITED EDITION, number 267 of 350 copies, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Tough Guys Don't Dance. 1984. Original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 143 of 350 copies, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100. 1985. LIMITED EDITION, number 40 of 250 copies, one of 50 in boards. -- And 2 others. Together, 13 works in 15 volumes, most published in NY, various 4to and 8vo sizes, a few illustrated, all in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, EACH WITH MAILER'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.





