Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional, signed first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Time of Our Time by Norman Mailer. First Edition stated, 1998 Random House. First Printing with full number line starting at 2 above First Edition statement, as per publisher.
The book is in Near Fine condition with bright boards with a few spots, a few smudges on page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, with the top starting to pull away from the text block and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the author’s legible signature on the blank publisher’s page with no inscription. No other 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. Appears unread.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, the price on the front flap and a “Signed First Edition” imprint on the bottom of the jacket. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Norman Mailer’s The Time of Our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America’s greatest writers.
Mailer selected and edited the contents of this work to create an ongoing narrative of events large and small that have shaped America over the last fifty years. Included are passages from The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park, An American Dream, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner’s Song, Ancient Evenings, and Harlot’s Ghost as well as portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Madonna, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon as they appeared in some of his best magazine pieces. How readable is the result! It is as if one is being drawn into a fabulous novel with extraordinary characters, real and fictional, who appear and reappear through the years until a vast mural of America as a nation comes into focus, full of follies and blunders, surprisingly elegant and often crazy–tragic in its losses and large in its triumphs.
Large volume ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
