Norman Mailer. First edition, stated first printing. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket with original price $5.95 on inside flap. In a mylar protective wrapper. Dust jacket designed by the amazing Paul Bacon. Hardcover: Very Good+ NY: The New American Library, 1968. No writing or markings in the well preserved edition, 288 pp.
This is a significant work by Mailer in its own right, winning both the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction (1968) and the National Book Award.
The novel chronicles the author's adventures over the four days of the October 1967 anti-Vietnam demonstrations in Washington.
"Mailer famously applies novelistic techniques to his account of an actual event in which he participated -- the 1967 March on the Pentagon, a massive multi-day anti-Vietnam War demonstration. The already prominent novelist turned practitioner of the then-new New Journalism is seen on the back cover of the dust jacket locking arms in march with a distinguished group that includes Noam Chomsky and Robert Lowell, but he also portrays himself within the narrative as making an ass of himself at times."
