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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Praeger: 1974. Large quarto. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First printing. Boards have a touch of fading along the edges. Unclipped jacket has a bit of edge wear and creasing. Book and jacket are both in very good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Praeger Publishers / Alskog Book, 1974. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Large quarto; publisher's color photo-illustrated card wrappers; [80]pp. color photographs with [16]pp. text insert printed on pale tan stock. Wear to wrapper margins, chip at spine foot, faint surface scratches, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Bookplate signed by Mailer laid in. Photographic/anthropological/journalistic examination of the meteoric rise of graffiti affecting the New York City subway system in an era when almost no car was unaffected. Mailer's on-the-ground approach provides a sympathetic up-close portrait of the taggers: "A-I is talking to CAY 161. That is the famous Cay from 161 Street, there at the beginning with TAKI 183 and JUNIOR 161, as famous in the world of wall and subway graffiti as Giotto may have been when his name first circulated through the circuits of those workshops which led from Masaccio through Piero della Francesco." Of course then-Mayor of New York John Lindsay was not of the same mind, having declared the first (fruitless) war on graffiti in 1972.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First paperback printing (simultaneous with the hardcover) of this classic and groundbreaking work on early NYC graffiti writers. Documenting some of the earliest New York graffiti artists (like the legendary Taki 183), FAITH captures the writers just before the Wild Style generation. While largely anthropological in its approach, Kurlandky and Naar's photography clearly paved the way for Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant's more more intimate work in SUBWAY ART a decade later. With an essay by Norman Mailer, from which the book gets its title, a nice copy of a foundational work. 15.75'' x 10.5''. Original color pictorial wraps. [80] color pages with [16]-page black-and-white insert. Mild shelfwear only. Overall bright and sharp.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer, Mervyn Kurlansky, Jon Naar. The Faith of Graffiti. Praeger, New York, 1974.
Price: US$177.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. 96pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous colour plates. Text in English. A classic, definitive look at the birth of graffiti as an art form, pairing the fascinating 1974 essay by Norman Mailerâ"National Book Award and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Naked and the Dead and The Executionerâs Songâ"with the stunning, iconic photography of internationally acclaimed photographer Jon Naar. Super early and super good.
Seller: november-books, london, United Kingdom
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Signed edition 162 / 350. Signed by all three contributors. In slipcase (( good condition) - some scuffing on outside edges) Profusely illustrated with Text by Norman Mailer. Book is in fine condition. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.
Seller: All-Ways Fiction, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. The Faith Of Graffiti. Praeger Publishers, 1974.
Price: US$600.71 + shipping
Condition: New
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Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. The Faith Of Graffiti. Praeger Publishers, 1974.
Price: US$602.60 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. The Faith Of Graffiti. Praeger Publishers, 1974.
Price: US$605.20 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. The Faith Of Graffiti. Praeger Publishers, 1974.
Price: US$648.77 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.