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(9) Books: Signed Norman Mailer, Other Fiction Early Printings

Price realized
$305
Pre-sale estimate
$150 – $250
Hammer price
$250
Category
Books, Manuscripts & Archives
Sold
September 6, 2024
Sale
DAY 1- SPECTACULAR SEPTEMBER ANTIQUES & ESTATES AUCTION

Lot description

(lot of 9) Books: (1) Mailer signed "The Naked and the Dead", Norman Mailer, signed at first end page and dated "Sept '86', Rinehart and Company, 1948, lacks "R" colophon at copyright page, black hard covers, silver lettering at spine, dust jacket with tear at upper pine, $4.00 interior price, Mailer picture at back; (1) "The Naked and the Dead", Norman Mailer, Rinehart and Company, 1948, lacks "R" colophon at copyright page, black hard covers, dust jacket with chips at folds and Mylar cover, $4.00 price, Mailer picture at back jacket, housed in slip case with chipping, 721 pgs.; (1) "Babbitt", Sinclair Lewis, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922, early edition, red and white dust jacket, pg. 49 "Purdy" is on line 3, 401 pages some uncut; (1)  "To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee, Lippincott, 1960, post Pulitzer Prize, in good condition with some chipping at dustcover folds, 296 pages; (1) "Tropic of Cancer", Henry Miller, Grove Press, 1961, "First Printing", 318 pages, dust jacket with Mylar cover; (1) Infinite Jest", David Foster Wallace, Little, Brown & Co., 1996, First Edition, First Printing, edition number 1-10 present, misspelled 'Wollmann' at back cover, price $29.95 at inside cover flap, 1079 pages, in good condition with clear Mylar cove; (1) "Between the Acts", Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, London, 2nd reprint Sept. 1941, blue cloth cover, Mylar over the Vanessa Bell dustcover, 256 pages; (1) "An American Tragedy", Theodore Dreiser, Boni and Liveright, 1925, ninth printing, 2 volumes, black cover with authors initials on gilt oval, previous owner name on inside of front board of each volume; (1) "The Mind of the South", W.J. Cash, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941, stated First Edition, grayish hard covers, gilt lettering at the spine, dust cover with tears and loss, 429 numbered pages, penciled notations at back inside page, for shipping largest book approx. 9.5" x 6.25" x 2.25", total of all 15.60lbs

This lot sold at a past Austin Auction Gallery sale. Prices realized include the buyer's premium and are provided for research only — they are not an appraisal or a guarantee of future value.