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Author: Mailer, Norman
Title: The Naked and the Dead
Place: New York
Publisher: Rinehart
Date: [1948]
Item # : 192182
Sale Number   377
Lot Number   109
Sale Name    
Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction
Sale Date   04/03/2008
Price realized   $ 156
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Description:
Black cloth, jacket designed by Karov. First Edition, First printing.
Author's first book; a stunning debut which ranks among the best American war novels ever written. First printing with publisher's circled "R" on the copyright page. First issue jacket in the red and black coloring, publisher's original printed "$4.00" price present, and no New York Herald Tribune quote. A Burgess 99 title.
Condition:
Scattered chips and tears to jacket, a 2" chip and 2½" tear to head of spine, front joint split with some repairing; shelf wear; very good or better, jacket fair to good.
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