AN AMERICAN DREAM
de Mailer, Norman
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Near Fine
- Librería
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: The Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Mailer was a novelist, journalist, politician, celebrity and founder of "The Village Voice," among many other things. Steven Rojack, protagonist of Mailer's fourth novel, "An American Dream," is a war hero, a politician, a celebrity, and, one suspects, how Mailer imagined himself when he wrote the book in a very short time frame in 1964 for serial publication in "Esquire." Rojack murders his wife, lies to the police about his crime and then careens wildly through New York's dark under-side, challenging the Devil himself. This copy is the 1965 London Book Club edition, first edition thus. About 5 x 7 1/2 inches, 256 pages in blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering on the spine. The front panel and spine of the dustjacket show a pictorial montage featuring a beautiful woman, a gold icon with a human eye, and a snake. Title and author in white letters across the top edge. Back panel lists five other selections from The Book Club. Top edge of text shows a trace of soiling, o/w boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked, with no significant flaws. Not ex-library. DJ shows only touch of soiling on back panel and very light edge wear. No tears, no creasing or chipping. A collectable copy for a completist collector or simply a very decent reading/study copy.
Sinopsis
An American Dream is Norman Mailer's fourth novel, published by Dial Press. Mailer wrote it in serialized form for Esquire, consciously attempting to resurrect the methodology used by Charles Dickens and other earlier novelists, with Mailer writing each chapter against monthly deadlines. The book is written in a poetic style heavy with metaphor that creates unique and hypnotizing narrative and dialogue.
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Detalles
- Librería
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005709
- Título
- AN AMERICAN DREAM
- Autor
- Mailer, Norman
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Book Club
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Palabras clave
- MODERN NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, LONDON, NEW YORK, 1960S, STEVEN ROJACK, CRIME, MURDER, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEX ABUSE,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Novel; Crime; Fine Literature;
Términos de venta
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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Sobre el vendedor
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Canandaigua, New York
Sobre H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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....
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Completist
- A completist is a book collector who seeks all collectible editions of a particular title, subject, author, or other focus of...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
