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New York: Howard Fertig, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Quarto (28 cm), pp. xi, [xii-xiv], 738, plus appendices. Beige cloth boards with tan dust jacket. Includes appendices A through G, introduction by the author and editorial note by the publisher. Jacket is sunned along spine, front flap dog-eared. Slight bumping at head of spine.
A Transit to Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript by Mailer, Norman - 1978
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A Transit to Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript
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New York: Howard Fertig, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated first edition, 1978, hardcover with beige cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, unpaginated, not illustrated. Book near fine with corners showing slight curl, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with mild toning to spine, edgewear that includes a couple small tears, small tear to spine near top, mild rubbing and soil. THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING FEES.
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- Publisher Howard Fertig
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1978
- Keywords Literary Criticism, Literature
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A Transit to Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Transcript
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A Transit to Narcissus. A Facsimile of the Original Typescript.
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A Transit to Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript
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Howard Fertig, 1978-10-01. Hardcover. Good.
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A TRANSIT TO NARCISSUS: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript
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New York: Howard Ferig, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Thick quarto. Original cloth in lightly worn DJ. Signature of Norman Mailer on a slip of lined paper laid into mylar-protected jacket.
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Howard Fertig, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 738 pages followed by appendices. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. The first publication of a novel Mailer wrote at the age of 20, three years before he began work on The Naked and the Dead. Issued in an edition of 1,000 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book.
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A TRANSIT TO NARCISSUS: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript; [Review copy]
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New York: Howard Ferig, 1978. First edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's review slip laid in. Written at the age of twenty while awaiting induction into the Army. This is the first publication of the book in the form of a facsimile of Mailer's typescript draft showing extensive handwritten corrections, additions and deletions which appear on nearly every page. One of only 1000 copies printed [Lennons, Works and Days, p.111] -- many of which must have gone to libraries, given the relative scarcity of the book. 4to beige cloth boards; 738 pages plus preliminaries and various appendices. Fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny nick to head of spine and few tears (internally repaired with archival tape).
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A Transit to Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript
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Howard Fertig, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 738 pages followed by appendices. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. The first publication of a novel Mailer wrote at the age of 20, three years before he began work on The Naked and the Dead. Issued in an edition of 1,000 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with a few short closed tears at the edges. With a warm inscription by Mailer to his agent at the time the book was first written, Berta Koslow, whose unsuccessful efforts to get the book published are described by Mailer in the introduction. 'To Berta, in all the pleasure of the fine evening we had this year. But then who but you, dear Berta, can find as many memories in this book as myself. With thanks, then. Thirty-four years late, all my thanks. / Norman / March 1979 / Which is to say that your presence all those years ago were so nice and so fortuitous that it gave me a good feeling about things to come to a young writer. See -- I can't express myself clearly…
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