Norman Mailer — Barbary Shore

London, Jonathan Cape, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first UK edition of award winning American writer and journalist Norman Mailer's second novel, 'Barbary Shore&apos. The first UK edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This was Mailer's second published novel, and concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to him. Mailer's 1968 work 'The Armies of the Night' won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction as well as the National Book Award. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip tail. Dust wrapper back strip age toned, with minor loss to back strip head, and light chipping to back strip tail. Light spotting to dust wrapper reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.