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Marilyn A Biography. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers
by Mailer, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., (1973). First Edition. First Printing Fine in bright white cloth covered boards with brown text stamped on the spine and with blind embossing of "Marilyn" at the top edge of the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 9 1/8" with brown end sheets with faint dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on a special label which is adhered to the first free end page. 271 pages of text and illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs taken by numerous photographers taken from Norma Jean's baby picture to 1962. A beautiful, tight and clean copy with no previous ownership markings of any kind.
Synopsis
In 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn , his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any of his other works except The Naked and the Dead .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB27824
- Title
- Marilyn A Biography. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers
- Author
- Mailer, Norman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1973)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
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- Text Block
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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