The Magic Barrel

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, issued "simultaneously" with the JPS issue, which precedes by several days. Octavo (21.75cm); mauve paper-covered boards and lavender cloth backstrip, with titling stamped in purple and orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],[3],4-213,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, light wear and a few tiny indentations to lower board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.75), lightly edgeworn, showing some gentle sunning and dust-soil to spine and panels, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. Malamud's first collection of short fiction, gathering 13 stories which first appeared (in slightly different form) in American Mercury, Commentary, Discovery, Modern Writing, The New Yorker, and Partisan Review. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1959. 82375. (Inventory #: 82375)