Existential Errands by Norman Mailer: Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good D. J. First Edition. SIGNED by NormanMailer in title page. CLEAN very good+ 1972 first edition hardcover with very good price clipped dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed By the Author on title page. A Very Good copy of the First Edition hardcover in a very good jacket (jacket has slight darkening, closed tear, and minor wear).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 365 pages. A collection of five years of writings. Published in an edition of 10,000 copies. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a somewhat wavy dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: 'To Don Kaufmann / My only hardcover book with a white jacket / Cheers / Norman Mailer / Sept. '75. Signed By Author.…

Trade Paperback. 365 pages. Proof copy of a collection of five years of writings. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Publication information written on the cover in red. Signed by the author on the half-title. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xv, 365 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. White spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$7.95", has tears along the spine head/tail and front fore corner, stains and discoloration overall. Boards are slightly warped, has light bumping and chipping along the tail fore corners, minor warping to spine, bending wear to spine head/tail, and minor scuff marks. Textblock has light stains on some pages throughout and along the edges, and dust burning along the head edges. Contains a publisher's card and author photo in the rear mylar. Signed flat by Norman Mailer on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Room Z. 1395390. Special Collections - Downstairs. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1ST. Signed By The Author On The Title Page. First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Very Good Condition. Boards Have A Mild Amount Of Shelf Wear, Tiny Bit Of Bump To The Corners. Page Edges Have A Small Amount Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Very Good Condition. Very Mild Wear Along The Edges. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Wrapper. Thanks And Enjoy. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Surface marks to jacket and a slight paper adhesion on the rear panel, short tears to jacket at spine ends, still attractive and very good. Faint wear and discoloration to book edges. Inscribed by Mailer "To Buzz and Carol These were the years, hey gang? Love Norman May '72". Buzz and Carol Farbar were longtime friends of Mailer's from the publishing business - Buzz was involved in Mailer's three movies (Maidstone, Wild 90 and Beyond the Law), playing Buzz Cameo in the improvised gangster film "Wild 90" which is the subject of the essay "Some Dirt in the Talk" in this collection. Years later Buzz was arrested in a sting operation trying to buy a kilo of cocaine (actually a harmless white powder being shopped by an undercover agent). In return for a promise of a radically reduced sentence, Buzz was convinced to wear a wire to a lunch at Armando's in Brooklyn with Mailer where he would get Norman to admit that he was the money guy in an international hashish ring run by Mailer's onetime associate Richard Stratton. It didn't work out and Buzz was given a harsh 6 year sentence. His wife Carol divorced him in 1985 and he ended up tragically committing suicide after being released from prison. Needless to say, rumors about Mailer's involvement in the drug smuggling and in Buzz's silence on the matter have made the rounds over the years. A terrific association with a close associate and one of the more puzzling episodes in one of the great literary lives of the 20th century. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 043587.…

First Edition. First edition. One of the dedication copies. From the collection of Adeline Lubell-Naiman. INSCRIBED on dedication page below the printed names, "Could this be for your distinguished service in Maidstone dear old editor darling? / Love / Norman." A collection of essays, excerpts, etc., written from 1967 to 1972. First book appearance for many. In addition to Adeline, the book is dedicated to his sister Barbara, daughter Susan, and to "Al." Small tear at head of spine, still about very good in slightly soiled white dust jacket with several tears. Adeline Lubell-Naiman was the editor instrumental in the eventual publication of THE NAKED AND THE DEAD. In 1946, while an editor at Little, Brown, Lubell-Naiman convinced Mailer to submit the first 200 pages of THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, which she talked up to her publisher. Unfortunately, she was also the one to suggest historian and critic Bernard DeVoto read the manuscript--he recommended not publishing. But Mailer submitted it to Rinehart, who published the book in 1948. Over the years, Lubell-Naiman remained close friends with Mailer and his wives. In the summer of 1968 she even played the role of "Adeline McCarthy," a president of a women's college in Mailer's film "Maidstone" (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center website). INSCRIBED "FOR YOUR DISTIGUISHED SERVICE IN 'MAIDSTONE'". Signed. …