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====''The Naked and the Dead''. New York: Rinehart, 6 May; London: Wingate, 9 May 1949. Novel, 721 pp., $4.====
===''The Naked and the Dead''. New York: Rinehart, 6 May; London: Wingate, 9 May 1949. Novel, 721 pp., $4.===


Republished in a signed leather-bound edition with one-page preface, “A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer.” Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, 1979 ([[79.36]]). Dedication and acknowledgment: “To my Mother and Bea. I would like to thank William Raney, Theodore S. Amussen, and Charles Devlin for the aid and encouragement given me at various times in the writing of this novel.”
Republished in a signed leather-bound edition with one-page preface, “A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer.” Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, 1979 ([[79.36]]). Dedication and acknowledgment: “To my Mother and Bea. I would like to thank William Raney, Theodore S. Amussen, and Charles Devlin for the aid and encouragement given me at various times in the writing of this novel.”
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{{cquote|I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too intangible, to be defined by language.|author=Norman Mailer |source=[[48.4]]}}
{{cquote|I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too intangible, to be defined by language.|author=Norman Mailer |source=[[48.4]]}}


 
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File:48-2.jpg|First Edition, 1948
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File:48-2a.jpg|Advertisement
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File:48-2b.jpg|Advertisement
|File:48-2.jpg|First Edition, 1948
File:Naked-&-Dead-(Book-Find-News).jpg|''Book Find News''
|File:48-2a.jpg|Advertisement
File:NAD paperback.jpg|Paperback
|File:48-2b.jpg|Advertisement
File:NAD Wingate London.jpg|Cover, Wingate, London
|File:Naked-&-Dead-(Book-Find-News).jpg|''Book Find News''
File:NADad2.jpg|Ad for ''NAD'', 1948.
|File:NAD paperback.jpg|Paperback
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|File:NAD Wingate London.jpg|Cover, Wingate, London
|File:NADad2.jpg|Ad for ''NAD'', 1948.
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== Bibliography ==
== Bibliography ==