Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize winning : The Executioner's Song First Edition

Author Norman Mailer

Publisher The Executioner’s Song was published by Little, Brown and Company in 1979. It was first released in hardcover and has since become a landmark work in both true crime and literary journalism, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1980.

Binding hardcover with dustjacket

Condition fine condition with dustjacket protected with Brodart, this book is unique in that the original owner pasted contemporary and important reviews of the book inside the covers and included clippings, He may have been a professor as he also wrote notes in the book back cover appearing as discussion topics

Summary

This first edition of Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Executioner’s Song is a literary gem with a compelling provenance. Previously owned by Edgar Stillman, a New York teacher who likely used the book in a class, it includes clippings of contemporary reviews from The New Yorker (Jan. 1980), The New York Times (Joan Didion’s review, 10/7/79), and The New York Review of Books. Stillman also added personal notes and copied a review from the New York Times (11/4/79) onto a back page. These historical additions and insights provide a rich academic and cultural context to this first edition, making it a must-have for collectors and true crime enthusiasts.