64.15

“Special Preface to the Bantam Edition.” The Presidential Papers. New York: Bantam, May, softcover, v-vii. Foreshadowed by Mailer’s contribution to “The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After” (63.38). Same preface appears in the first British edition (63.37). The first American edition of 63.37 has a jacket photograph of Mailer in a J.F.K.-style rocker. The same picture is used on the cover of the Bantam edition, but the photograph has been altered to remove the rockers. Rpt: 76.13. See 14.4.