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Stories of Bernard Malamud
by Malamud, Bernard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374270376
- ISBN 13
- 9780374270377
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book Club Edition per no price on front jacket flap and blind stamped leaf on bottom of back board. Copyright page lists individual copyrights of stories in the book ( ranging from 1950 to 1983 )and a final copyright for this volume of 1983. Hard cover in very good condition with blue boards, black spine cloth, and gilt lettering and red lines on spine. Text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket very good with clhip at top of front and larger chip on back top near spine (see photo.) * Bernard Malamud began writing in the 1940s and was published in university presses; he sold his first story in 1949 by 1959 won the National book Award. He 1983 he gathered together this collection of his short stories. It has been said of his stories, ""that they are radiant with personal vision. Compassionate and profound in their wry humor, they capture the poetry of human relationships at the point where reality and imagination meet."" See photos 3 and 4 for a list of stories included.
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Details
- Seller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- M001395
- Title
- Stories of Bernard Malamud
- Author
- Malamud, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374270376
- ISBN 13
- 9780374270377
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Fiction, Short Stories, Bernard Malamud
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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- Text Block
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- Book Club Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Gilt
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