Lot Details
Lot 163
MAILER, NORMAN Group of inscribed and signed books, a letter, and two large drawings presented to publisher Jason Epstein.
Comprising two large drawings, both black marker on paper, 17 x 14 inches, one signed and dated 1988, the other unsigned but published in Mailer's Modest Gifts, offered with one inscribed and one uninscribed copy of Modest Gifts. Both drawings torn from upper margin not touching image, toned. The books comprising four signed first edition copies in dust jacket of The Time of Our Time, 1998; an inscribed first edition in jacket of Harlot's Ghost, 1991; copy number 4 of the signed limited first edition of the same; a signed copy of Norman Mailer's Letters, 2004; an inscribed first edition in jacket of The Gospel According to the Son, 1997, with a two page autograph letter signed dated 1996 laid-in; an inscribed paperback of Pieces, stated first edition, 1982; an inscribed first trade edition in jacket of Oswald's Tale, 1995; an inscribed first edition in jacket of The Castle in the Forest, 2007; Together with three signed limited editions by Gore Vidal, each numbered in the first ten copies, cloth in slipcases, fading, and a proof copy (?) of Vidal's Washington, D.C., 1967.
A fine group of inscribed copies and ephemera highlighting the important author publisher relationship between Norman Mailer and Jason Epstein.
C Property of Jason Epstein and Judith Miller
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