Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986

[New York]: Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 1986.

Price: $100.00

Softcover. First edition. 16mo. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 150 unnumbered copies Signed by Robert Giroux, Daniel Stern, and Cynthia Ozick. Prints the three eulogies delivered at Malamud's memorial service at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City. With an Autograph Note Signed by the publisher laid in.

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Item #540120 Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986. Bernard MALAMUD, Robert Giroux Cynthia Ozick, Daniel Stern.
Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986

Bernard Malamud
birth name: Bernard Malamud
born: 4/26/1914
died: 3/18/1986
nationality: USA

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Biography

American novelist and short-story writer who made parables out of Jewish immigrant life. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

His 1952 novel The Natural is very eagerly sought after, by both literature and baseball collectors, it came in three different color bindings - red, blue, and gray, with dealers invariably asserting the priority of whatever color copy they happen to have in hand. All of our experience would tend to indicate that there is no obvious priority - frankly we'll note the color of the binding in our descriptions, but we pretty much value them equally. The English edition (1963) is interesting as it offers a glossary for baseball-challanged Britishers that is not in the American edition. The first edition of The Assistant needs to have reviews of The Natural on the rear panel. Fine copies are very uncommon. his 1958 collection The Magic Barrel and Other Stories comes in two issues with no established priority, but collectors seem to prefer the issue from the Jewish Publication Society over the issue from Farrar Straus and Cudahy.

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