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Mailer, Norman. Marilyn (Signed). Grosset & Dunlap, 1973.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing. SIGNED and briefly INSCRIBED by Mailer on the half title page. Near fine (previous owner's blind stamp on the title page, some foxing) in very good dust jacket (price clipped, chipping and edge wear). Nice Copy.
Seller: Bob's Rare Books, Haddonfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. Marilyn: A Preview [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. s.i., New York, 1973.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York? s.i., n.d., but ca. 1973. Slim, square quarto; publisher's silver photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; [12]pp.; half-tone and color photographs throughout. Wrappers a bit worn from handling, else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by Mailer laid in. Prospectus volume preceding Norman Mailer's biography of the late Marilyn Monroe, issued by Grosset & Dunlap in 1973.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. Ivory padded cloth covered boards, front cover lettered in blind, spine panel lettered in black, marbled endpapers. Limited signed edition, stated "First Printing" on copyright page, signed by Mailer (as author) and Schiller (on behalf of the photographers) on limitation leaf preceding half-title, original to issue and thus guaranteed authentic. Lacks original slipcase, this edition published with no dust jacket. 272 pp., illus. w/ color, b&w photographs including examples from Arnold, Avedon, Barris, Beaton, Morath, Newman, Schiller, Stern and others. Cloth is rather aged/toned with foxing on both covers toward edges and along spine panel, light foxing to text block edges, small nick to cloth along upper front fore-edge, light semi-circular impression to upper front cover cloth. Short gift inscription to blank verso of front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Limitation leaf modestly foxed, main title showing slight offsetting from color frontis. The final several leaves show a slight waviness along bottom edges from moisture contact but display no dampstaining. Some cosmetic issues, but intact in all essentials, and quite scarce. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Square quarto; publisher's linen in white photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 270pp.; photographic illus. throughout, many in full color. Light wear to jacket extremities including a few tiny chips, corners tapped, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Bookplate signed by Mailer laid in. Photo-biography of the late Marilyn Monroe issued more than a decade following her suicide. Among "the world's foremost photographers" represented here: Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, and Eve Arnold.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing Fine in bright white cloth covered boards with brown text stamped on the spine and with blind embossing of "Marilyn" at the top edge of the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 9 1/8" with brown end sheets with faint dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on a special label which is adhered to the first free end page. 271 pages of text and illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs taken by numerous photographers taken from Norma Jean's baby picture to 1962. A beautiful, tight and clean copy with no previous ownership markings of any kind.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 270 pages; VG-/VG-; spine pictorial, with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; some shelf wear and soiling; wear at flap folds; small closed tear at upper edge of jacket front; fading to jacket spine; small chips missing from crown and tail of jacket spine; soiling to back of jacket; line of image loss at jacket back; price uncut '$19.95'; signed flat at title page by Mailer; soiling to title page; profusely illustrated with black and white and full color photos; pages clean; CX consignment; shelved Case 11. 1345952. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Here is an exceptional copy of the Limited Signed Edition. It has been SIGNED on the limited edition page by both Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller on behalf of the world's foremost photographers. Superbly illustrated with full color and black and white photographs of Marilyn, including a photograph of a nude Marilyn drying herself with a towel on the front cover of the slip case. A beautiful as new hardcover bound in a padded white cloth binding with marbled end papers. This copy is complete with the original photo decorated clam-shell box also with marbled end papers and containing only the very slightest wear. This is a beautiful, near perfect copy, and a true cornerstone for any Marilyn collection.
Seller: Booklover's Treasures, Foxboro, MA, U.S.A.
MAILER, Norman. Marilyn: A Biography. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1973.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Pictures by the world's foremost photographers. 4to, white silk cloth, stamped in blind on the cover. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1973). Limited First Edition. A fine copy, preserved in a clamshell box with a photographic portrait. Signed by Mailer and by Lawrence Schiller, the producer of the book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. Marilyn: A Biography - Limited, signed edition. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1973.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: condition: fine. Grosset & Dunlap, New York 1973. With pictures by the world's foremost photographers, incl. color and b&w photographs from Arnold, Avedon, Barris, Beaton, Morath, Newman, Schiller, Stern and others.272 pp (4to) 26.5x23.5 cm (10½x9¼") white cloth, black drop-back box with photograph of Marilyn on front. Signed by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller. With the original publisher's cardboard mailer. Ships from Hawaii. Ivory padded cloth, black drop-back box with photograph of Marilyn on front Limited Signed Edition. Signed by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller.
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Price: US$290.61 + shipping
Description: [Biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.[2] 270 [2]. Heavily illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs by various artists. SIGNED by the author and the editor in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's white padded cloth, with titles in blue to spine and blind to upper. Marbled endapers. With the publisher's navy leatherette clamshell box, showing a photographic vignette to upper, and marbled paper lining. Internally clean, with some minor rubbing to white cloth. Box shows moderate wear and bumping, with splits to corners. Very good.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
MAILER, Norman. Marilyn (Signed). Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1973.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A little wear to bottom of title page . . . overall, though, an unusually bright clean copy of this first edition of this photography book on Ms. Monroe. Photos by a host of photographers including Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Davidson, Philippe Halsman, Bert Stern, et al. 271 pp. with hundreds of photos. Signed by Norman Mailer on a bookplate affixed to the half-title page. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: White cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamp. Limited edition, profusely illustrated, signed by both Normal Mailer and photographer Lawrence Schiller. A handsome copy in publisher's folding box. Box is near fine some scuffing noted. Inside book is in Fine condition, All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.
Seller: All-Ways Fiction, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Marilyn. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1973.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, white cloth lettered in gilt and blindstamp. Limited edition, second printing, profusely illustrated, and signed by both Mailer and photographer Lawrence Schiller. A handsome copy in publisher's folding box.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Marilyn: a Biography. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1973.
Price: US$429.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1st printing. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Photos. A scarce signed copy. 271 pages. Great, collectible copy!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.