An American Dream - Advance Review Copy with Ephemera and Photograph
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Dial, 1965. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Dial Press, 1965. First edition, advance review copy with publicity photograph of Mailer and advance review note laid in. 8vo. Blue cloth with silver lettering embossed on spine and front board, gray endpapers, rough cut pages, 270 pp. The milieu of "An American Dream" is New York City; the nighttime of plush East Side duplex apartments, of police precinct stations, of after-hours clubs, of Lower East side tenements. Onto this environment Mailer impresses his singular imagination, creating a classic world of action and horror that takes on the dimensions of an American myth. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear, bindings are slightly sunned at extremities, writing on rear endpaper, text block tight, clean and appears gently read. Very good in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..
Synopsis
An American Dream is Norman Mailer's fourth novel, published by Dial Press. Mailer wrote it in serialized form for Esquire, consciously attempting to resurrect the methodology used by Charles Dickens and other earlier novelists, with Mailer writing each chapter against monthly deadlines. The book is written in a poetic style heavy with metaphor that creates unique and hypnotizing narrative and dialogue.
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- Seller
- Rose's Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 017809
- Title
- An American Dream - Advance Review Copy with Ephemera and Photograph
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dial
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NEW YROK CITY LOWER EAST SIDE AFTER HOURS CLUBS ACTION DRAMA FICTION
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- Rare Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
Rose's Books, IOBA
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts
About Rose's Books, IOBA
Rose's Books is an Internet-only rare and used book service, located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. We publish and distribute scholarly imprints by Clock & Rose Press.
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- Cloth
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- Advance Review Copy
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- First Edition
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- Shelf Wear
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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