New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966).
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Hardcover. First edition. Faint owner's stamp of Chester A. Garrison on the foredge and topedge, and a tiny faint spot on the bottom edge, else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a little wear at the spine edges. Inscribed by Malamud to Garrison (a close friend and colleague of Malamud's) and his wife Louise: "For Louise and Chet whom we think and talk of often with much affection, Bern." The Garrisons were also the dedicatees of a 1967 omnibus edition of Malamud's work, *The Malamud Reader*.
Chester A. Garrison became friends with Malamud soon after Garrison joined the English Department at Oregon State College (now University) in 1954 where they bonded over being Easterners (Malamud from New York and Garrison from Jersey City) and their mutual interest in Thomas Hardy. Malamud's son Paul interviewed Garrison about their relationship for the book *The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud* (2001). Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Dalton Trumbo scripted the John Frankenheimer film starring Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde. A very nice association copy.
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