Mankind In Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer
University of Vermont, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 226 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Literary Criticism
Mailer and the Times of his Time
Bay Books, 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 193 pages. On Norman Mailer. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Unread, as new.
The Confusion of Realms
Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 272 pages. 'On Norman Mailer, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Sontag, The Living Theatre, Black Writing -- Fiction, Drama, and Ideas' -- from the jacket cover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 234 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Analyzes Muller's achievement from The Naked and the Dead through The Armies of the Night. using the techniques of depth psychology developed by Freud and certain post-Freudians. In.....
Norman Mailer (Modern Critical Views)
Chelsea House Pub, 1986. Hardcover. 213 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction
Columbia University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 473 pages. The sequel to the author's Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The sequel to Messenger's (English, U. of Illinois at Chicago) Sport and.....
Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work
Little Brown and Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 310 pages. With introduction by Lucid who was Mailer's authorized biographer and literary executor. Contributions by Gore Vidal, Tom Wolfe, Diana Trilling and others. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Radical Sophistication: Studies in Contmeporary Jewish-American Novelists
Ohio University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with light chipping at the spine ends and a closed tear to the rear panel.
Three American Moralists: Mailer, Bellow, Trilling
University of Notre Dame Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 230 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969
Sligo Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 123 pages. From a limited edition of 150 numbered copies signed by Mailer and Lennon. A compilation of 76 letters by Mailer to friends and associates regarding the seriel publcation of the novel in Esquire. With 10 color illustrations. First edition (first printing). Blue.....
Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 186 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with light fading to the spine and a short creased snag to the rear panel. Publisher's review slip laid in.
Encounters with Chinese Writers
Wesleyan University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 106 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket scuffed at the edges and flap folds. It's been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Creek to the Galapagos Islands, the high Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, the Amazon Jungle--and.....
Seven American Stylists from Poe to Mailer: An Introduction (The Minnesota Library on American Writers)
University of Minnesota Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 318 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light edge wear.
Four Postwar American Novelists
University of Chicago Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 206 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer
University of Missouri Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 209 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Desperate Faith: A Study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin, and Updike
The University of North Carolina, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 172 pages. Examines the macho writing styles of Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Hemingway and others. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller
Grove Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 576 pages. Contains Mailer's longest piece of literary criticism. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with spine a bit faded and with a short, creased snag at the foot. Publisher's review slip laid in.
Touchstone, Volume XI, Number I (Spring 1986)
William Laufer, 1986. Trade Paperback. 40 pages. An issue of the literary journal with an interview and poems by the Texas poet. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Covers lightly toned.
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Vintage, July 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the.....
A Life in Words (The Mailer Review, Volume 5, Fall 2011)
The Norman Mailer Society, 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 498 pages. Volume 5 of the annual print journal that publishes articles, interviews and reviews related to the life and work of the twice-winning Pulitzer Prize author. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Literary Warriors (The Mailer Review, Volume 4, Fall 2010)
The Norman Mailer Society, 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 561 pages. Volume 4 of the annual print journal that publishes articles, interviews and reviews related to the life and work of the twice-winning Pulitzer Prize author. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Poetry and Prophecy: An Address to the Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library
Cedarhouse Press, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 25 pages. The text of a lecture given at Texas A & M University. Published in an edition of 500 copies, but rather uncommon, with just 6 holdings in OCLC. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Light toning.....
A. E. Housman (Twayne's English authors series, 46)
Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in red cloth covers with decorations and lettering in bright gilt. Dust jacket is very good with some soiling, edge and corner wear and tanning.
Early Spanish American Narrative
University of Texas Press, November 2004. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic civilizations composed narrative accounts of the.....