Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. Hardcover. Book club edition. Edited by Martha Foley. Octavo. xv, 368pp. Pages lightly age-toned, near fine in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and tears along the extremities. Bernard Malamud's first book appearance with "The Prison". Quotes William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970. Hardcover. First edition. Very good with spine ends bumped, lacking the dust jacket. Authors are: Bernard Malamud, Patricia Browning Griffith, Tom Cole, John Updike, Nancy Willard, and many more. More
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1957). Softcover. Complete and unabridged. Mass market paperback. Light water stain on page edges, else very good. Malamud’s second book, and perhaps his scarcest. *Burgess 99*. More
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Cocked, and old tape shadows on the front pastedown, thus good in good only internally repaired first issue dustjacket with overall wear. Malamud’s second book, and perhaps his scarcest. Contemporary author's printed presentation label ("With Best Wishes From The Author"), with..... More
New York: A Signet Book / The New American Library, (1963). Softcover. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Loss of top corner on front fly affecting the blurbs, wrappers corners creased, good only with extensive pencil underlining throughout. More
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1957). Hardcover. Uncorrected proof in the form of sewn folded signatures. Fine, laid into a spine-toned very good or better example of the first issue dust jacket. Malamud’s second book, and perhaps his scarcest. We've never seen another example of the proof, unusual in this..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in spine-toned, very good or better first issue dust jacket. Malamud’s second book, and perhaps his scarcest. *Burgess 99*. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1997). Hardcover. First edition. Edited with an introduction by Robert Giroux. 634pp. Tiny spots on topedge, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1997). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Edited and introduced by Robert Giroux. Printed wrappers. Near fine. Publisher's letter laid in. All 53 of Malamud's short stories are included. Giroux was Malamud's longtime editor. More
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1991). Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Lawrence M. Lasher. Small quarto. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a light bump at the crown. More
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1991). Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Lawrence M. Lasher. Small quarto. Fine in a fine dust jacket with slight toning at the edges. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, second state. Advance Review Copy. Fine in fine dustwrapper. P. 231 appears here in its second state, with manuscript correction as noted in the publisher's laid in letter; this copy apparently went to Alfred Coppel, reviewer with the *San Francisco Chronicle*..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Malamud's wry take on love and marriage, with p. 231 appearing in its third, corrected state. Inscribed by the author to Janet Harte, a Texas philanthropist. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, second state. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with two short tears. According to one reference this is one of approximately 70 copies that were sent out for review with manuscript corrections to five words that were omitted from the..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. Scattered foxing on page edges, sticker offsetting on front fly, else very good in a near fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. Scattered foxing on page edges, else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. Second printing. Near fine in a very good lightly sunned dust jacket with a few short tears on edges. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. Scattered foxing on page fine edges, owner's name penned on front pastedown, else very good in a near fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. Green cloth lightly soiled, else very good in a very good dustwrapper with yellow spots on front panel. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Hardcover. First edition. Like New 1st printing hardcover with similar dust jacket, both are a nice clean copy. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. Scattered foxing on page fine edges and endpapers, else very good in a near fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, first state. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears and a little age-toning. Malamud's wry take on love and marriage, with page 231 appearing in its first state, with most of the last line of text missing and uncorrected. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. A little sunned on the cloth, near fine in very good dust jacket with several scattered nicks and slight fading on the spine. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979). Hardcover. Second printing. A little sunning on the boards, else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with a few small tears at the foot and light wear. Malamud's wry take on love and marriage, with p. 231 appearing in its third..... More