first edition Hardcover
1948 · New York
by Mailer, Norman
New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Good plus/Good. 721pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black paper over boards with a white ink stamped title and 2 single ruled lines on the spine. With Rinehart logo on copyright page. Extremities prominently rubbed. Front hinge soft. In the first issue dust jacket ($4.00 price on flap; Stanley Rinehart "Word from the Publisher" on flaps; young Mailer's photo on rear), with large paper tape repairs to the reverse, and a couple of small open tears and rubbing to the edges. A first edition of the author's highly successful, and Pulitzer Prize winning, first book that was based on the author's own wartime experiences.
"I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too tangible, to be defined by language." - Norman Mailer. (Inventory #: 67444)
"I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too tangible, to be defined by language." - Norman Mailer. (Inventory #: 67444)
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