presentation copy to Mailer's editor

A fine association copy with the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Francis Wyndham after five minutes of waiting to find a sufficiently dry metaphor about the Queen I am reduced to signing this as The Baron Norman Oct 1961'. The recipient was the writer and publisher who was Mailer's editor at Deutsch at the time of publication.

First UK edition, first impression; presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's black boards, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket; light tape residue to the endpapers, from an old jacket protector, spine rather dull but a very good copy in the frayed and torn dust jacket rather faded at the spine.