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"THE BEST NOVEL ABOUT AMERICANS AT WAR" -ALFRED KAZIN

MAILER, NORMAN.  The Naked and the Dead

"Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assault craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on the beach... All over the ship, all through the convoy, there was a knowledge that in a few hours some of them were going to be dead."

FIRST EDITION of Mailer's masterpiece.

Written when Mailer was just twenty-five, The Naked and the Dead is one of the classic novels of World War II. Both a critical and commercial success (it remained at the top of The New York Times best-seller list for eleven weeks), it launched Mailer's career and remains one of the most influential American novels of the century.

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Book very good with abrasion to pastedowns and split between title and half-title (but everything holding); dust jacket with small abrasion on inside front flap, otherwise very clean with rich, black color and only the slightest edgewear. An excellent copy. $1700.
 

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