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MAILER, NORMAN. Death for the Ladies and Other Disasters. New York: Putnam's [1962]. 8vo, original printed wrappers, wear along spine, cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Mailer's only book of poetry, PRESENTATION COPY to the critic Dwight Macdonald, inscribed by Mailer in ink across the inside front cover and the half-title page opposite (the inscription in imitation of the poems in the book, the rest of these two pages covered with an abstract ink drawing by Mailer similar to the two printed in the book): "Yes, said the evil producer sitting in his den Get Macdonald I will said the electronic gun Norman Mar 62."