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First edition (first printing) with the Rinehart logo on copyright page. Light edge wear else a fine copy in a dust jacket with a light hint of toning and wear to the spine head. An exceptional copy as noted by the exuberant inscription by the author to Donald Kaufmann: "Don, this may be the finest copy extant of the Naked and the Dead. Cheers, yes. Norman Mailer." Kaufmann published one of the first critical studies of Mailer, Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years).

First edition (first printing); without the dedication page. A fine copy in a somewhat scuffed dust jacket with light chipping to the spine head. With a warm inscription by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Don Kaufmann / with recollection of the fine and hungover morning we left Anchorage with [future Poet Laureate of Florida] Ed Skellings and flew over (or under) Mt. McKinley on our way to Fairbanks. Next night a debate with Ralph Ellison at the University of Alaska and sensations of magnetic north being near indeed. Norman Mailer / Sept. '75, Maine." Forty-two years later, upon Mailer's death, Kaufmann wrote about this 1965 plane ride during what would be Mailer's first and only trip to Alaska in a memoriam titled "Norman Mailer in 'God’s Attic,'" which described Mailer's request to the pilot to buzz the top of McKinley, which he did, repeatedly. Kaufmann wrote, "During that twenty-minute hello to Denali, I could not foresee Mailer’s next novel, Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967), oddly entitled because the word “Vietnam” appears but once—in the book’s final phrase, “Vietnam, hot dam.” Most of the novel’s “hot dams” took place in Alaska and mostly in remote, stark wilderness—the Brooks Range." Kaufmann published his critical study of Mailer, Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years) in 1969.

First edition (first printing). White cloth with multi-color lettering on the spine; cloth somewhat grubby and spotting to top of page block. A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket with original $5.95 price; with wear to the edges and a superficial tear to the verso.

First edition (first printing). Black cloth stamped with publisher's device on the cover and silver lettering on the spine. A nice, square copy with a bit of edge wear; small sticker scar on front pastedown from a removed bookplate, and a former owner's small stamp on the front free endpaper, which shows a light imprint and small tear from a now removed paperclip. A near fine hardcover; lacking the scarce dust jacket.

Signed by the author below her name on the title page. First edition (first printing). Slightly musty but otherwise near fine copy in a dust jacket with minor edgewear.

First edition (first printing). A bit of edge wear, else a near fine copy. Dust jacket is worn at the corners with a couple closed tears and is creased down the spine, else near fine. [JSP02]

First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with light fading and toning to the spine. Minor edge wear and a small, faint stain on the fore-edge. Inscribed on the half-title page by the author to Donald Kaufmann, a book collector and professor in the English department at the University of South Florida: "In Sarasota, on June 16, 1977 from the heart of the country to the tail of the country, a work whose heart needs now a doctor -- but best wishes, Bill Gass."

First edition (first printing). Gray cloth with orange Cupid illustration on the cover. Light bumps to bottom corners and spine head else a fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with a shade of toning to the spine and a very short tear to one corner.

First edition (first printing). Black cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine; top edge stained dark green. Top corners lightly bumped, small scuff to the spine foot and adjacent bottom edge, and a small little stain on the bottom edge of the page block thus a near fine copy; in a dust jacket with mild toning to the spine and a faint tidemark on the spine foot.

First edition (first printing per Lepper's Seventy-Five Modern American Authors, with a $1.00 price and publisher's ZIP code 68505). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author on the title page and quite scarce thus.

First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with light fading to the spine and a few stains to the rear panel. Pencil notes on the rear endpapers. With the publisher's review slip laid in.

First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title.

First edition (first printing). Light fading to cloth edges else a fine copy in somewhat wavy dust jacket with light fading to author's name in red on spine. Dedication page tipped in.

First edition (first printing). Cloth a bit toned and faded at the spine and edges, and a tide mark to the rear panel thus a very good copy in a dust jacket with a creased tear to the rear panel repaired with clear (but aged) tape on the verso. News clipping with the book review from the 1936 New York Herald laid in.

First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in printed orange dust jacket with color-faded spine and a few small chips and tears to the edges. Inscribed by the author on a bookplate on the front free endpaper: "all the best of everything from Louis Bromfield" dated 1928.

First edition (first printing). Bound in dark green and black mottled cloth. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with long tear to the rear flap fold repaired on the verso with paper tape; minor loss to spine head not affecting text. Gibbs, James Hanley: A Bibliography A15a.

First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front paste down.

First edition (first printing). Bound in green buckram with gold lettering. Light, uneven fading thus a near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Publisher's errata slip bound in at title page. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Copy number 33. Gibbs A4a.

First edition (first printing). Olive cloth with bright gilt spine and cover. A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Light wear to the edges with minor offsetting to rear endpapers. A nice, square copy.

First edition (first printing). Gray cloth a bit faded at the edges and spine; foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages. A very good copy in a dust jacket toned at the spine with chips to the end slightly affecting text. Gibbs A16a.