Lucid Robert Edited (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. First hardcover edition, World Publishing/Times Mirror, 1971. Light shelf wear to cloth boards. Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket, including rubbing, small open tear along bottom rear edge, and inside front flap price clipped. Binding square and tight. No loose pages or creasing to spine. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Previous owner's bookplate on front end page. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. xli, 406pp. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates. Ex-library copy with the usual markings, pocket and label removed from rear endpapers, boards slightly worn, spine rubbed, about very good. Volume one only of a trilogy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Thick octavo. 739pp. Near fine with bottom corners slightly worn in a very good modestly edgeworn dust jacket with short tears.

First edition. Near fine in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and the extremities. A collection of essays about Mailer. Leo Bersani thinks of him as an American Balzac, Diana Trilling says flatly that 'Mailer is no Balzac of the twentieth century.' Tom Wolfe jestingly compares Mailer with Dostoevsky, then opts for James M. Cain. Norman Podhoretz tells us that the essence of Mailer's strength as a novelist is that he 'never pays much attention to intellectual fashion,' but Calder Willingham derides him for a 'slavish obeisance to intellectual fashion.' The best essays, those by Podhoretz and Trilling, deal impressively with Mailer's 'moral radicalism,' his changing ideologies, the fierceness of his concerns with collectivism and individualism, God and the Devil -- the sort of philosophical hipsterism which was so prevalent in the '50's and early '60's when these essays were first published. Such later effusions as An American Dream and Why Are We in Vietnam?, or the superb reportage about the Pentagon and Miami, are also discussed, though with much less clarity and conclusiveness. Mailer remains, of course, a complex presence on the literary scene.".

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 739 pages. With introduction by Lucid who was Mailer's authorized biographer and literary executor. Light corner bumps and a 1-1/2 inch sticker scar on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket with short creased tears at the spine ends. Signed and dated November 2000 by Mailer on the half-title.

Trade Paperback. Uncorrected proof. With introduction by Lucid who was Mailer's authorized biographer and literary executor. Faint crease along spine else a fine, square copy in wrappers (paperback).