Norman Mailer – The Executioner’s Song – SIGNED First Edition 1979
£450.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Executioner’s Song’ published by Little, Brown in 1979. A near fine book SIGNED on the front endpaper, ‘To Ed/Cheers/Norman Mailer’. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with some rubbing to the corners and to the edges and spine tips.
This novel is noteworthy for its portrayal of Gary Gilmore, a violent product of America’s prisons who became known for two reasons: first for robbing and murdering two men in 1976, and second, after being tried and convicted, he insisting on dying for his crime. In order to do so, he had to fight a system that seemed ironically intent to keep him alive. The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘The Executioner’s Song’ published by Little, Brown in 1979. A near fine book SIGNED on the front endpaper, ‘To Ed/Cheers/Norman Mailer’. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with some rubbing to the corners and to the edges and spine tips.
This novel is noteworthy for its portrayal of Gary Gilmore, a violent product of America’s prisons who became known for two reasons: first for robbing and murdering two men in 1976, and second, after being tried and convicted, he insisting on dying for his crime. In order to do so, he had to fight a system that seemed ironically intent to keep him alive. The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel.
