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Lot 151

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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MAILER, Norman (1923-2007). A group of 18 non-fiction works by Mailer, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, MANY SIGNED, comprising:

1) Advertisements for Myself. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

2) Advertisements for Myself. London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

3) Cannibals and Christians. New York: The Dial Press, 1966. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

4) The Armies of the Night: History as Novel, the Novel as History. New York: The New American Library, 1968. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

5) Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1968. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

6) Of A Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1970. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

7) The Prisoner of Sex. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1971. Original cloth; publisher’s dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

8) The Fight. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1971. FIRST EDITION.

9) Existential Errands. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1972. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

10) The Faith of Graffiti. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1974. LIMITED EDITION, number 257 of 350 copies, SIGNED BY MAILER AND CO-AUTHORS MERVYN KURLANSKY AND JON NAAR. 

11) Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions 1960-1972. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1976. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

12) The Executioner’s Song. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1979. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

13) Of A Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980.Original cloth; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 218 of 300 copies, SIGNED BY MAILER.

14) Pieces and Pontifications. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1982. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

15) Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. New York: Random House, 1995.FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

16) Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. New York: Random House, 1995. FIRST EDITION.

17) The Time of Our Time. New York: Random House, 1998. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

18) The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing. New York: Random House, 2003. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MAILER.

Together, 18 works in 18 volumes, all 8vo, all in original cloth and publisher’s dust jacket (except where indicated), condition generally fine.

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