Tough Guys Don't Dance / Signed, Limited and First Edition

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition, and a Limited Edition, signed by Norman Mailer on the second fep. Octavo, 229 + 3 pp., color frontispiece by C. Michael Dundash. Franklin's lavish leather binding of Mailer's tale of a guy who wakes up with blood in his porsche and a severed female head in his marijuana stash. Not the start of his best day. Full rich brown leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, rather spectacularly marbled endpapers and a brown satin page-marker ribbon. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless. Please review scans. With Mailer's "A Special Message for the First Edition from Norman Mailer" prefacing the novel. Show this one off on the cocktail table; get a mass market copy to read. l-frnkln2.