8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white (stains to text-block fore-edge); dust jacket (few tiny chips at edges).

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. SIGNED BY MAILER on the title-page. "The narrative presents, with great accuracy and power, the agony of the American troops in the Pacific campaign...It remains Mailer's best, and certainly the best war novel to emerge from the United States" (Burgess, 99 Novels, pp.42-43).