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Norman Mailer. An American Dream (Signed 1st Printing). The Dial Press, New York, 1965.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: From an auction of modern first editions that included a Norman Mailer lot--with the auction tag laid into the book--a fine copy in a near fine unclipped dustjacket. This copy is signed by the author on the half title page--signature only. A tight and clean copy with only the owner name in ink on the front free endpaper--a little toning to the page edges. The dustjacket is remarkably well preserved --bright with no fading to the spine as is often seen with this title. Some shallow edgewear to the head and heel of the spine--otherwise would be fine. Tight spine and hinges--a nice collectible copy.
Seller: Classic First Editions-- IOBA, La Quinta, CA, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman.. AN AMERICAN DREAM.. Dial Press: NY, 1965.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: 8.5 x 5.75, cloth backed boards, 270 pp, covers rubbed and toned, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, contents worn and toned, in yellowed edge worn dust jacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP), SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
MAILER, Norman.. AN AMERICAN DREAM.. The Dial Press, 1965., 1965.
Price: US$120.06 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 270pp. A very good hardback copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Very minor foxing to fore edge. . Signed by Mailer on bookplate.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Mailer, Norman. AN AMERICAN DREAM. The Dial Press, New York, 1965.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nicely SIGNED by Mailer on first blank page; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. AN AMERICAN DREAM. The Dial Press, New York, 1965.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. From the collection of Adeline Lubell-Naiman. INSCRIBED, "To Adeline - In return for a long letter / Norman / Feb 1965." Spine unevenly faded, otherwise about very good in worn but still presentable dust jacket. Adeline Lubell-Naiman was the editor instrumental in the eventual publication of THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. In 1946, while an editor at Little, Brown, Lubell-Naiman convinced Mailer to submit the first 200 pages of THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, which she talked up to her publisher. Unfortunately, she was also the one to suggest historian and critic Bernard DeVoto read the manuscript--he recommended not publishing. But Mailer submitted it to Rinehart, who published the book in 1948. Over the years, Lubell-Naiman remained close friends with Mailer and his wives. In the summer of 1968 she even played the role of "Adeline McCarthy," a president of a women's college in Mailer's film "Maidstone" (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center website).
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.