The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer, Hutchinson, 1979, 1st edition (UK).1,056 pages. Dust jacket. Description: Book; Blue cloth with both silver and copper lettering to spine only, publisher's motif embossed on the cover, goldenrod endpapers. Dust jacket; Black wraparound design with white lettering over and under sunset photograph by Roger Ward, author's photo on back cover. Not price clipped. Condition: Book; Near fine. Bright and clean covers and pages with no marks. Rubbing to lower edge of spine, some dust to front and back boards. Autopen-signature on Title page, title page professionally laid in from identical book that had water damaged to boards and other pages. Book is Pulitzer Prize winner. Mailer "longpen" signed books at the 6/16/07 Edinburgh International Book Festival when health prevented him attending in person. It is not known if this is the first and/or only time the author used a autopen. Dust jacket; Near fine. Bright and clean, not price clipped, no marks or tears, very light crease to three of the points, else fine.