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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition with full number line. Quarto; publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 288pp.; photographic illus. throughout, many in color. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Bookplate signed by Mailer laid in.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Of Women and Their Elegance. Simon & Schuster, 1980.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed and inscribed by author Norman Mailer on first printed page: 'To Art cheers Norman Mailer.' A very good first edition hardcover (with complete number line) in jacket (slight wear; remainder mark to bottom edge). Sequel to Mailer's original book on Monroe, based on the review of the actress' several sessions with photographer Greene; '. a fictional autobiography and a work of art' (jacket front flyleaf). Greene, Milton H. (photographer); Over 100 Color & b/w Photographs. 288 pages.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. Of Women and Their Elegance. Simon & Schuster, 1980.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: neatly signed by Norman Mailer; signature obtained in person by bookseller; text by Mailer to accompany brilliant photographs by Milton Greene; there is some separation from binding in the first few pages else fine
Seller: Affordably Rare, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing, PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED Milton at first leaf to photography dealer Margie Neikrug. Approx 11 1/4 inches tall, 288pp, black and white and color photographic illustrations, publishers black cloth lettered in silver at spine (minimal wear, very good or better). Pictorial dust jacket (a closed tears, the longest one inch long at bottom of rear panel, minor bumps, creases, moderate rubbing and soiling most visible at white margins of rear panel, else very good).
Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Of Women and Their Elegance. Simon & Schuster, 1980.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black cloth first edition hardcover. Inscribed to the title page by Mailer; also signed by another person, illegibly. Small edge bump, points rubbed, spine ends softened, trace soil. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
MAILER, Norman.. Of Women and Their Elegance.. New York, Simon and Schuster [1980]., 1980.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Small folio. Illustrated with 101 photographs in color and b/w by Milton H. Greene. Dust jacket (unclipped; short tear; small stain bottom edge). Very good. 288 pages. Signed by Milton H. Green on the frontispiece photograph. With Greene's address stamp on the last page and on the top and bottom edge.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [slight wear to bottom front corner of book, small black mark on bottom edge of text block that could be a remainder mark (but I don't think it is); jacket lightly surface-worn, faint crease in top left area of front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the photographer on the second front endpape (on the white area of a full-page photograph): "To Burt [Lancaster] - Wishing you / the best - Enjoy Love and / Happiness. Milton." One might have thought that Mailer was done having his literary way with Marilyn Monroe after his factoid-infused 1973 book "Marilyn" -- but no. Here, behind the veil of a somewhat misleading title, he has channeled Marilyn to produce "a fictional autobiography" -- in the author's own description, "an imaginary memoir, an as-told-to book, a set of interviews that never took place between Marilyn Monroe and Norman Mailer." Mailer's window into "the mind, the thoughts, the feelings" of MM was provided by the photographs of Milton Greene, who for a few halcyon years in the mid-1950s was Monroe's preferred photographer (and also became a close personal friend). The book uses Greene's photos exclusively -- many of Marilyn herself, of course (about one-quarter of the book's images), but also of quite a few other glamorous and attractive women (and even the occasional man), apparently to justify the conceit that the book was indeed about his fascination with women in general, rather than merely another deep dive into his MM obsession. Signed by Photographer
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Of Women and Their Elegance. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Photographs by Milton H. Greene. Near fine, first edition book in near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Black cloth covered boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Faint sunning to outermost upper and lower edges of front and back board panels. No remainder marks. Minimal chipping along edges at head and tail of jacket spine and very small rubs on fore-edge corner tips. Not price clipped. Please use close up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher than the stated shipping costs. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Norman Mailer on first white spot " To Patrick, After the pleasure of working with him again, Salud! " First Edition, First Printing. With corresponding number line. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards have minor scuffing, not bumped. Simon & Schuster little man on bottom edge. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Minor scuffing on back edges Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. On title page is written - R Patrick Sullivan January 1985 with address. Oversize picture book - may require additional postage. Book is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.
Seller: All-Ways Fiction, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
MAILER, Norman & GREENE, Milton H.. Of Women and Their Elegance. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1980.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated throughout with color and b/w photographs by Milton H. Greene. 288 pages. 4to, black cloth, d.w. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1980). First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. Presentation from the photographer on the frontispiece, signed "Milton".
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.