Fixer by Malamud, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 335 pages; signed by author on the flyleaf page. Very minor foxing on the top exterior edge of textblock and adjacent cover edges. Minor fading on the covers' top edges. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. 1st Edition (Unstated); No Printing Stated.

First edition, early printing of the author's fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Bernard Malamud on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. First published in 1966, The Fixer was described for its fashionable prose by Elizabeth Harding at Vogue as "[b]rilliant [andharrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance." And Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated, "[w]hat makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity.This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." The Fixer "deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth" (The Independent). It was the basis for the 1968 film directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition/Stated 1st Printing. SIGNED by Malamud on card attached to front end page (signature only--card has paper-clip stain, not effecting signature). $5.75 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Winner of both the Pulitzer and National Book Award. Includes laid-in from the 1968 John Frankenheimer film version of novel a small color photo card SIGNED and inscribed by IAN HOLM (played Grubeshov). Also includes laid-in a handwritten a thank you notecard SIGNEDand inscribed by DIRK BOGARDE (played Bibikov in film). Comes with Bogarde hand-addressed envelope postmarked from France in 1983. Also laid-in is a small color phot SIGNED by MURRAY MELVIN (played the Priest). Also laid-in is a card SIGNED by ALAN BATES (played 'Yakov Bok' and was nominated for Academy Award). Also laid-in is a small B&W phot SIGNED and inscribed by DAVID WARNER (played Count Odoevsky); and a card SIGNED by DAVID LODGE (played 'Zhitnyk'). (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st Printing hardcover copy of Malamud's "The Tenants--note: bonus book only comes with domestic order). Nice 1st Printing copy for the Malamud - Fixer fan or collector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

First edition of the author's fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ida and Marshall With all good wishes Bern." Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows some light wear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. First published in 1966, The Fixer was described for its fashionable prose by Elizabeth Harding at Vogue as "[b]rilliant [andharrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance." And Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated, "[w]hat makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity.This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." The Fixer "deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth" (The Independent). It was the basis for the 1968 film directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates.

First edition of the author's fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Susie and Paul with much affection Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud (brother of printmaker Karl Schrag). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows some light wear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First published in 1966, The Fixer was described for its fashionable prose by Elizabeth Harding at Vogue as "[b]rilliant [andharrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance." And Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated, "[w]hat makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity.This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." The Fixer "deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth" (The Independent). It was the basis for the 1968 film directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Alan Bates.

1st U.K. edition of this Pulitzer Prize winner SIGNED AND GENERICALlY INSCRIBED on the title page ("For a dear friend, Bernard Malamud") Near fine/near fine (not price-clipped; some offsetting on the endpapers; dj spine a little yellowed).

First Edition. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Fixer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. $1750.First edition, presentation copy, of Malamud's Pulitzer-winning novel, inscribed by Malamud: "For Josef, A patient and attentive hostfor making my stay in Israel so pleasurableBernard."Malamud's story of a Jew falsely accused of murder in czarist Russia in 1912 ends with the declaration that there is 'no such thing as an unpolitical man.' Taken as commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, the book achieves popular as well as critical success and would be made into a 1968 film after winning both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize" (Chronology of American Literature). "The language at once sears and sings. The process of continuous genocide which we call history finds in this novel both a challenge and a response" (Vinson, 877). Laid-in Hebrew newspaper clipping from Malamud's trip to Israel.Book near-fine, with mild toning to preliminary and concluding pages and slight soiling to cloth. Dust jacket extremely good, with a bit of soiling, light rubbing to extremities, and tape repair to verso. A desirable inscribed copy. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. INSCRIBED BY MALAMUD on front endpaper to Richard "Dick" Holland, Director of Publicity at Farrar, Straus, "For Dick Holland/ for making us all/ famous/ Bernard Malamud." Near fine with small archival tape reinforcement to upper corner front endpaper where thinned from erasure; in bright, near fine dust jacket with small, faintly inked price at top corner front flap. Signed.