The Best American Short Stories 1951

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.

Price: $65.00

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 at length in the Foreword, and contains stories by Roger Angell, Nathan Asch, Peggy Bennett, Mary Bolté, Hortense Calisher, Leonard Casper, R.V. Cassill, John Cheever, Harris Downey, Elizabeth Enright, J. Carol Goodman, Ethel Edison Gordon, William Goyen, Shirley Jackson, Josephine W. Johnson, Ilona Karmel, Oliver La Farge, George Lanning, Ethel G. Lewis, Dorothy Livesay, Robie Macauley, Bernard Malamud, Esther Patt, J.F. Powers, Paul Rader, Jean Stafford, Ray B. West, Jr., and Tennessee Williams.

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Item #599562 The Best American Short Stories 1951. Bernard MALAMUD, Jr., Ray B. West, Jean Stafford, Paul Rader, J. F. Powers, Esther Patt, Bernard Malamud, Robie Macauley, Dorothy Livesay, Ethel G. Lewis, George Lanning, Oliver La Farge, Ilona Karmel, Josephine W. Johnson, Shirley Jackson, William Goyen, Ethel Edison Gordon, J. Carol Goodman, Elizabeth Enright, Harris Downey, John Cheever, R. V. Cassill, Leonard Casper, Hortense Calisher, Mary Bolté, Peggy Bennett, Nathan Asch, Roger Angell, Tennessee Williams, Martha FOLEY, Joyce F. Harman.

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

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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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