New York, NY: Rinehart & Co. Inc., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. "There are only six principal characters in BARBARY SHORE- two women, three men, and a child. yet out of their extraordinary relationships- to each other, to the world around them- Norman Mailer has extracted the dilemma of our times. A novel of action, it is also a novel of ideas, and the interplay evokes a gamut of comedy, of..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Signed, placed, dated & inscribed by Allen Ginsberg at his contribution to Richard Cupidi. "We hope we have here an open place where normally apolitical men may speak uncensored upon any subject they feel most hotly & cooly about in a world which politics has made. We are not interested in protecting beings from themselves, we cannot help the deaths..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harpers Magazine Co., 1971. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Presented here is the March 1971 issue of Harper’s Magazine highlighting Norman Mailer (1923-2007), the prize-winning novelist & a towering figure in American fiction & journalism. This issue features an excerpt from Mailer’s “Prisoner of Sex"; fiction from Johanna Kaplan (b.1942) and poetry from Romanian-born French poet Paul Celan (1920-1970), and the iconic British-American poet W.H Auden (1907-1973)..... More

Paris, France: Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1961. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage 1961 number of the venerable literary, art & cultural journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features a "Russian Poetry Portfolio" including poems by Boris Pasternak (translated or "Adapted" by Robert Lowell), Ossip Mandelstam, Andrei Vozneisenski & other twentieth-century Giants of Russian poetry. Also in this issue: Fiction by Cecil Dawkins & others; interviews including of Marianne Moore conducted by..... More

New York, NY: Empire Books, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. “Norman Mailer—novelist, journalist, cofounder of The Village Voice, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, member of the Academy of Arts and Letters, Women’s Liberation adversary, Vietnam War protester, candidate for mayor of New York City, wife-stabber, filmmaker, fantasy lover of Marilyn Monroe, boxer, actor in Ragtime, and advocate of convict-author Jack Henry Abbott—is perhaps the most admired and decried of America’s..... More

New York, NY: Evergreen Review, Inc., 1962. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the legendary literary, cultural & arts journal chiefly edited by Barney Rosset features an essay by Norman Mailer, the prolific & pugilistic provocateur of American Letters ("truth and Being; Nothing and Time: A broken Fragment From A Long Novel," pgs. 68-74). Also in this issue are contributions of poetry by Edward Field & others; Joseph Barry's..... More

Flushing, NY: Deborah S. Pease, 1991. First Printing. Softcover. This later-vintage number of the venerable literary journal then-chiefly edited by George Plimpton features in-depth interviews with canonical American poet Donald Hall (1928-2018), conducted by Peter Stitt & preceded by a facsimile manuscript page of his poem "Baseball"; & with Wright Morris (1910-1998), the great novelist & photographer, conducted by Olga Carlisle & Jodie Ireland, preceded by a facsimile manuscript page..... More

Paris, France: The Paris Review, 1964. First Printing. Softcover. A most unusual copy of this Paris Review issue, a binding error created a one-of-a-kind version that excludes Henry Miller (1891-1980) at the height of his censorship battle in the United States. We can’t say for sure that this is why it happened, but it is very interesting that the missing section includes his contribution as well as those of Jack..... More