MAILER, NORMAN. The Naked and the Dead. 8vo, original black cloth, slight wear with miniscule splits to spine tips; dust jacket, moderate rubbing particularly to folds with a few small abrasions, spine panel head slightly chipped. first edition, with author's signature on tipped-in bookplate to half-title. Publisher's "R" inside a circle printed on the copyright page, though without jacket blurb by Stanley Rinehart. Mailer's first book. New York: Rinehart and Company, (1948)