Lot 172: MAILER, NORMAN. 1923-2007. The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1948.

MAILER, NORMAN. 1923-2007.
The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1948. Publisher's black cloth with white titles on spine, dust jacket in black, white and red. Light wear to edges of jacket, thumbed. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Mailer on the title page. Rinehart logo on copyright page, $4.00 price on front flap. Mailer's Pacific theater war drama was groundbreaking in its gritty realism, despite the publisher's pressure to replace some rough language in the text with harmless euphemisms.