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Mailer, Norman. Why Are We In Vietnam?. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1967.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Norman Mailer (signature only - no inscription) on the half-title page. Fourth impression. Very Good in a Good only dust jacket. Minute tear to fore-edge of first few pages. Binding is square and sound. Unmarked but for author's signature. Jacket is rubbed and rather heavily edge-worn, with numerous small chips and short tears. Publisher's $4.95 price intact on front flap. 208 pages.
Seller: Brazos Bend Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
MAILER, Norman. Why Are We in Vietnam. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1967.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good with some spotting to the boards and a small stain on the rear board in a very good dustwrapper with some dampstaining to the bottom edge of the flaps and some waviness. Inscribed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Norman Mailer. Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer (Reprint) Signed. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer (Reprint) Signed A very firm signed copy. Cloth slightly sunned at top and bottom edges. Moderate edge wear. Rubbed jacket edges. A few short closed tears. Not price-clipped. Fourth Impression, stated. Copyright 1967, no other date given.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Why Are We in Vietnam?. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1967.
Price: US$53.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third Printing. Signed by Mailer, "To J. D. at the Y/Norman Mailer." Blue cloth with red endpapers. Rubbing to the boards. A sticker ghost to the front endpaper. The dust jacket has age toning to the edge of the flaps. Publisher's price of $4.95 on the front flap. Set in the peaks of the Brooks Range in Alaska, a novel of big-game hunting and communing with the wilderness. One of the few Mailer books not preceded by pre-publication excerpts in periodicals. Lennon 67.15. ; 208 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Bungalow Books, ABAA, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
MAILER, Norman. Why Are We in Vietnam? (Signed First Edition). G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1967.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Non-fiction work from the author of "The Naked and The Dead." A near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket that has some minor wear and some fading to the spine. Signed and inscribed by Mailer on the front free endpaper: "To Joe Haas on our peripatetic interview. Norman Mailer April 1968." A much nicer than usual copy with an interesting inscription.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Why Are We in Vietnam?. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1967.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 208 pages. First edition, first printing. First state with NO printed dedication page. Signed by Mailer on the first title page. Novel of a hunting expedition in Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Mailer, Norman. Why Are We in Vietnam: A Novel. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 208 pages. A novel about a hunting trip to Alaska. First edition (first printing); without the dedication page. A fine copy in a somewhat scuffed dust jacket with light chipping to the spine head. With a warm inscription by the author on the front free endpaper: 'To Don Kaufmann / with recollection of the fine and hungover morning we left Anchorage with [future Poet Laureate of Florida] Ed Skellings and flew over (or under) Mt. McKinley on our way to Fairbanks. Next night a debate with Ralph Ellison at the University of Alaska and sensations of magnetic north being near indeed. Norman Mailer / Sept. '75, Maine.' Forty-two years later, upon Mailer's death, Kaufmann wrote about this 1965 plane ride during what would be Mailer's first and only trip to Alaska in a memoriam titled 'Norman Mailer in 'God's Attic,'' which described Mailer's request to the pilot to buzz the top of McKinley, which he did, repeatedly. Kaufmann wrote, 'During that twenty-minute hello to Denali, I could not foresee Mailer's next novel, Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967), oddly entitled because the word "Vietnam" appears but once-in the book's final phrase, "Vietnam, hot dam." Most of the novel's "hot dams" took place in Alaska and mostly in remote, stark wilderness-the Brooks Range.' Kaufmann published his critical study of Mailer, Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years) in 1969.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.