Norman Mailer Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1996. Author-signed first edition. xxxvii/791 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in full gray leather decorated in gilt, with raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon marker and a frontispiece illustration by Alan E. Cober. Book is new and still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Norman Mailer's 1995 non-fiction book is an exhaustive examination of Oswald's movements over the years, and particularly in the months, leading up to Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, and Oswald's own death two days later.