Tough Guys Don’t Dance.

MAILER, Norman.

Item Number: 115419

New York: Random House, 1984.

First edition of Mailer’s classic murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Winne Apt from Norman Mailer.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robery Aulicino. Jacket photograph by Joel Meyerowitz. With an autograph note by Carl Lennertz of Random House laid in.

Set in Provincetown on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, this noir thriller follows the story of Tim Madden, a former bartender and drug runner struggling to make a living as a writer who wakes one morning to find himself with a new tattoo and the passenger seat of his car covered in blood. Having no recollection of the night before, Madden elects to solve the mystery himself, and a series of dangerous and unforeseen situations unfold. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name which Mailer directed in 1987.