TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE
New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED by the Author on titile page, thick 16mo (6 7/8" x 4 1/8" x 1 1/8"), photographic wrappers with silhouette of a man standing on steps overlooking a crimson sunset over the ocean, publisher's yellow page fore-edges stain, 370 numbered pages + [2] Quotations + [2] About the Author & Ballantine Ad. Near Fine / None. Item #6388
ISBN: 0345323211
SIGNED neatly by NORMAN MAILER on the title page. Tight copy with some rubbing to edges and uniform moderate age-toning.
Norman Mailer (1923 – 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His best-known work is often considered to be The Executioner's Song (1979) winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mailer's Armies of the Night won another Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award.
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984) is his noir thriller and murder mystery reminiscent of the hardboiled works of Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, and Raymond Chandler. The book was adapted into a film, directed by Mailer, in 1987. Cover of this paperback repeats the dust jacket art of the cloth edition's dust jacket.
Price: $75.00