The White Negro by Norman Mailer, First Edition (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a VG stapled first edition copy with previous owner's name, a 1968 printing with the 75 cent price. white wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Mailers essay first published in 1957 in Dissent dealing with his views on Post War American issues and culture since the end of American Slavery. Slight shelf wear and staining near the spine. Original staples with firm binding. No markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The White Negro by Norman Mailer. Published by City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 1957. Very good book in soft covers. First published in "Dissent" by Dissent Publishing Associates, with permission to reprint, price of 50 cents on front cover. Covers are tanned along edges and more solidly on the back covers, and along edges and corners. External page edges and text pages are age-toned, else internally clean. Text block is secure....

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First separate edition reprinted from "Dissent", 2nd printing with 50 cents price; clean square and tight, light age toning around edges, previous owner initials on title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Third Printing with price of 75 cents on front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Covers have sunfading and toning, light corner wear, mild wear at edges. Textblock has toning . otherwise the pages are clean, sharp, and bright. Staple binding is tight and intact. Overall a nice copy. Photos available upon request.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, later issue price. Stapled wrappers. Cover photo by Harry Redl. Slight age-toning else near fine. *The White Negro* was originally published in "Dissent.".

FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING (50c ON FRONT COVER), octavo, illus tsapled light card covers, white lettering to front cover, unpaginated, VG (light scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to covers with light creasing also, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to inside front cover, occasional sl foxing to some pages).

Soft cover. Condition: VG. First Edition, 2nd Issue. Unpaginated. Pages are in very good, clean condition. White soft covers with illustration and white titles. Some yellowing on the edges. Light soiling on the lower cover. Price of 50 cents on the upper cover. VG Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Book.

Condition: VERY GOOD. Later printing, a slim chapbook. First separate appearance of an article originally published in "Dissent." "Superficial reflections on the hipster" with comments by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. SIGNED on the title page. Later printing or issue with cover price (on back cover) of $1.00 cents (first printing had a cover price of 35 cents). Unpaginated (32 pp including title page and 1 pp publisher's list of titles) Cover with photograph by...

8vo, printed wraps. Wrappers some toned, avery good tight copy. Cook 26. Norman Mailer's 'beat' manifesto. First Edition, second printing (price 50¢).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume IV, Number 3. Octavo. 210-336pp. Spine sunned and crown heavily bumped causing two short tears, very good. With a subscription postcard bound in. The "American Notebook" issue, featuring the first appearance of Norman Mailer's "The White Negro (Superficial Reflections on the Hipster)." Other articles include "The Anxious South" by L.D. Reddick; "The Auto Worker" by Frank Marquat; "Granville Hicks' Small Town" by Michael Harrington; "Moral Dave BeckUnethical Scapegoat" by David Carper; "How Liberals Survive...

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [1], 210-336 pp. 22.5 cm x 15 cm. Bound in blue paper wraps printed in black. The summer issue of 1957. Lennon 57.1. This issue of Dissent is where Mailer's short essay was first printed. His piece was and remains a controversial one, generating a response from James Baldwin. Mailer would later release a companion essay, "Reflections on Hipsterism". The other essays in this issue of Dissent discuss pertinent socialist issues of...

First Edition in this format, having been previously published in 1957 in Dissent magazine, with all First Printing points present (35 cent price on front cover and publisher's address on title page). Stapled wrappers, with front cover reproducing a photograph of a man's face, printed in negative. Faint toning along wrapper edges, most noticeable along spine. Internally clean and bright. Near Fine. Scarce. Miller's famous and complex post-war essay explores the white male "hipster's" (or existentialist's) sympathy for the...

Trade Paperback. First Edition. Unpaginated, 27 pages. Originally published in Dissent Magazine, this is Mailer's 'superficial reflections on the hipster,' with criticisms by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. First edition (first printing), priced 35 cents on the cover. Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback). Some wear and toning to edges. Underlining on a few pages. With ownership signature of American writer and academic Margaret Randall on the title page dated 1959. Randall was ordered to...

[Hipsterism] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[32]. Including the essay, as well as a series of letters on the subject between the author and various correspondents. Publisher's photographic card covers, priced at 50c, and stapled twice. Some rubbing to spine, otherwise a nice clean copy. Near fine. Mailer's famous essay, first published in Dissent magazine, in which he equates the non-comformity of Post-War Hipsterism and the Beat Generation with Black non-conformist culture since the...

Softcover. Illustrated by Harry Redl (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Some light edge, corner and surface wear with some toning on wraps. Square and securely bound. Overall VG- to VG. ; Cover Photo; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; This important essay by Norman Mailer was originally published in Dissent Magazine. This is the first stand alone printing. It has the $. 35 price that distinguishes the first printing. Very nice copy of this rather scarce Mailer publication.

Condition: Used - Good. 1957. First edition, priced 35 cents. Octavo. 27 pp. Mild shelf wear to wraps. Noticeable dampstains to wraps and pages. Altogether a copy in Good condition.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. Unpaginated, 27 pages. Originally published in Dissent Magazine, this is Mailer's 'superficial reflections on the hipster,' with criticisms by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. First edition (first printing) with a cover price of 35 cents. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Uneven toning, light stains to rear cover. Inscribed by Mailer to publisher Bill Targ: 'as ever / Norman Mailer.'.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, second issue price. Stapled wrappers as issued. Slight age-toning else near fine. Signed by the author.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. Unpaginated, 27 pages. Originally published in Dissent Magazine, this is Mailer's 'superficial reflections on the hipster,' with criticisms by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Stains to covers and page corners, with considerable stains to the center pages with text still visible. Inscribed by the author: 'To Don Kaufmann, I think a year of my life went into writing this essay / Norman...

First edition. The true first printing with front cover price 35 cents (later printings had price of 50 and 75 cents) Black-and-white, stapled paperwraps. Aging and soling to white portions, including a few small stains to plain rear cover, otherwise very good. TRUE FIRST PRINTING.

First separate issue, originally published in Dissent in the same year. Mailer's article "was by far the most extraordinary piece that appeared in Dissent" (Lennon, p. 233) and helped bring the journal to a greater prominence. Mailer argues that the American psyche has become conformist and terrorised, as a result of the holocaust and the nuclear age. It remains Mailer's best-known and most frequently reprinted essay. Lennon, Norman Mailer: A Double Life. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. Covers very lightly...