Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional, first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer. First Edition stated, 1979 Little Brown. First Printing with no subsequent printing
The book exterior is in Near Fine condition with brights boards with a few spots, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and the $16.95 retail price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song won the Pulitzer Prize. A reconstruction of the crime and fate of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who sought his own execution in Utah where he was imprisoned, is based on taped interviews with relatives, friends, lawyers, and law-enforcement officials
Large volume ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
