MAILER, Norman (1923?2007). The Naked and the Dead. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, [1948]. 8vo. Publisher?s black cloth, spine lettered in white; original unclipped dust jacket. With a CUT AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE by Mailer affixed to title. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the author?s first book which ranks among the best American war novels ever written. In a FIRST ISSUE dust jacket without the New York Herald Tribune quote. HANDSOME COPY IN A NEAR PRISTINE JACKET. A Burgess 99 title.