Barbary Shore
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Black cloth; illustrated dust jacket. First edition, with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. The author's second book. Briefly inscribed and signed by Norman Mailer. Typical rubbing to black Rinehart boards, but a nice square copy in a DJ (retaining the original price of $3.00) with light edgewear externally; there is some staining to the verso of the green and black variant dustwrapper, especially to the spine. But this is hardly visible without turning the jacket over. Displays quite nicely in mylar.
Synopsis
Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received poor reviews and sold poorly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sanctuary Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D16778
- Title
- Barbary Shore
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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