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The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer, front panel designed by Karov (Joe Caroff), rear photograph by Maillard Kesslere, Rinehart 1948. Hardback with dustjacket, 721 pages.
First Printing with First State dustjacket; with circled R logo and four lines below it on copyright page, no other printings listed, $4.00 price on front flap, Stanley Rinehart review starts on front panel and continues to rear panel, no other reviews listed, black and white photograph on rear panel. From a First Printing print run of 25,000 copies. Modern Library listed it as one of the Hundred Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century.
With blue-ink signed photograph page of Norman Mailer from unbound sheets of a Lord John Press Production, 10 7/8" x 7 3/4" (the verso is a signed Elmore Leonard photograph page). COA included.
Very Good +/Very Good/Fine - light browning to top edge, other fore-edges lightly browned, some spotting, boards rubbed at ends, front board bumped, interior pages clean and unmarked, dustjacket chipped at corners and ends of spine, spine faded, browned at edges of white flaps, rubbed at flap edges. Signed photograph has a small spot to right of author.
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