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The Deer Park
by MAILER, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Allan Wingate, 1957. Hardback. First edition, first impression, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (15s). DJ has shelf wear to extremities, patchy browning (including to spine), Boards are very good with the odd small mark, a little browning to spine, minor patchy fading and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Published: Allan Wingate, London, United Kingdom, 1957.
Synopsis
Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice . He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead ; The Armies of the Night , for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song , for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost ; Oswald's Tale ; The Gospel According to the Son , The Castle and the Forest and On God . Mr. Mailer passed away on Saturday, November 10, 2007.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6397
- Title
- The Deer Park
- Author
- MAILER, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Allan Wingate
- Date Published
- 1957
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
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