Magic Barrel, Signed (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by Malamud on front free endpage without inscription. Later printing (1967). Near fine book in very good dust jacket. Clean and bright copy with lightly edge and corner-worn dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

X, 213 pp. Original half cloth with dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by author. - Few browned. Gewicht (Gramm): 434.

Condition: Fine. Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers with French flaps [softback]. Quarto 10¼'' x 8''. Contains 80 printed pages of text with colour illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. SIGNED by the Author to the half-title page 'To Anthony, this message of our traditions and of our culture but above all a message of friendship and love - May de Lencquesaing. Avril 2003.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 2911059190 WINES, BEERS & SPIRITS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Tenth Edition; First Printing. Very Good hardcover in a Fair dust jacket which has been wrapped. Dust jacket is chipped and worn. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. ; Signed First Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pages; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. SIGNED by author on title page. No stated edition on copyright page. Unsure of this printing due to lack of statement (1st Printings have that statement on cp page). $3.75 price present on DJ flap. Raspberry colored boards w/purple lettering; blue-green top-stain; 214 pages. DJ design by Milton Glaser; five blurbs on rear of DJ. DJ has National Book Award decal on front. DJ rubbed and faded with wear on rear along spine and top; sunning of spine. mylar protected. Book is collection of 13 stories and won the National Book Award in 1959. Scarce signed in any edition. (Bonus: Comes with a very good unsigned 1st Printing hardcover copy of Malamud's novel "Rembrandt's Hat"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Early reprint. This was Malamud's third book and first collection of short stories. It won the 1958 National Book Award. It appears to be an early reprint, since it lacks the "First Printing" line on the copyright page. This copy is near fine in lavender paper-covered boards with purple and yellow titles and designs on the spine and front cover. No other marks or damage. The unclipped dust jacket has a 1" chip missing at the top of the jacket front and sun darkening on the jacket spine. Slight soiling and spotting elsewhere. Signed by Malamud on the front flyleaf. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition/Stated 1st Printing (true 1st Printing before the Farrar trade edition). SIGNED by Malamud on a bookplate affixed to title page (signature only). hint of spine slant. Jacket cover by Milton Glaser; five blurbs on rear of DJ. DJ rubbed and faded with edge wear and chipping onrear and spine ends; sunning of spine. DJ price-clipped; mylar protected. Book is collection of 13 stories and won the National Book Award in 1959. (Bonus: Comes witha unsigned 1st Edition hardcover copy of Malamud's book of uncollected stories "The People"). Note: No International orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Spine a little soiled, corners a little bumped, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Malamud to Chet Garrison (a close friend and colleague of Malamud's) and his wife Louise: "For Louise and Chet - good friends - Every good wish. Bern. Corvallis. May, 1958." 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). A very nice association copy.

First edition of Malamud's first collection of short stories, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marshall and Min Everything good- Bernie." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Housed in a custom clamshell box. The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony); they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic magic. "In the short story, Malamud achieved an almost psalmlike compression. He has been called the Jewish Hawthorne, but he might just as well be thought a Jewish Chopin, a prose composer of preludes and noctures" (Mark Shechner, Partisan Review).

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. (Preceded the Farrar, Straus & Cudahy trade edition by a few days.) Signed by author on title page in black ink. 214 pp. Original cloth-backed boards, decorated in purple and yellowish orange. Near Fine with very light wear to tips and name written on front free endpaper. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, a few clear tape mends on verso, tiny pinhole in front panel, lightly worn at head. The author's first collection of stories, winner of a National Book Award.

First UK edition, first impression. This was the author's own retained copy, coming to us from his family, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. The Magic Barrel was originally published in the US in 1958. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver and red. With dust jacket. Slight bump to top corner. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket.