Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer — The Naked and the Dead

The Leisure Circle (TLC) Edition, UK, 1949

A powerful postwar edition of Norman Mailer’s landmark debut novel, The Naked and the Dead—widely regarded as one of the greatest war novels of the twentieth century.

Originally published in 1948, the novel drew directly on Mailer’s own experiences as a U.S. Army infantryman in the Pacific and caused immediate controversy for its uncompromising realism, psychological depth, and unflinching portrayal of power, fear, and masculinity under fire.

This Leisure Circle (TLC) edition, printed in Great Britain in 1949, brought the novel to a wider British readership and is notable for its striking photographic dust jacket design and robust cloth binding—very much of its time, and increasingly scarce in collectible condition.

While not a true first edition, this remains an early and desirable postwar printing of an essential modern classic, particularly appealing to collectors of WWII literature, American modernism, and Norman Mailer.

Details

• Author: Norman Mailer

• Title: The Naked and the Dead

• Publisher: The Leisure Circle Ltd (TLC)

• Year: 1949

• Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

• Language: English

• Printed in: Great Britain

Condition

• Book: Very good. Clean, firm binding with light, expected age wear.

• Dust jacket: Present and intact; moderate handling wear and gentle creasing, but visually strong and well-preserved.

• Pages: Clean, with light toning consistent with age.

A compelling, shelf-worthy copy of one of the defining novels of the postwar era—ideal as a reading copy with strong visual appeal, or as part of a serious twentieth-century literature collection.