FIRST TWO BOOKS SIGNED MAILER, NORMAN. The Naked and the Dead. 8vo, original black cloth, spine tips rubbed with light exposure; unclipped dust jacket, 1-inch abrasion to spine panel, few short closed tears, spine panel folds rubbed. first edition in first issue jacket, signed by the author. Mailer's first book with publisher's "R" inside a circle printed on the copyright page, and jacket blurb by Stanley Rinehart. New York: Rinehart, (1948)
with-Barbary Shore. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, lettered in white; unclipped dust jacket, tanned with short chips and closed tears. First edition, Signed by Mailer in green ink. NY, (1951).
