Author: MALAMUD, BERNARD
Title: The Magic Barrel -and- Idiots First (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Full-Leather. A deluxe Franklin Library leatherbound edition offering two collections of short stories by New York City's Bernard Malamud. "The Magic Barrel," containing 13 stories, won the National Book Award for fiction in 1959. "Idiots First" offers twelve stories. With illustrations by Bert Silverman. Includes a drawn portrait of the author by Walter Rane near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Text presented on high-quality papers. Orange silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about Near Fine copy with a hint of sunning to edges of moire endpapers, otherwise bright, newish and lacking damages or evidence of having been read.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (12), 453 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Fiction >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Title: The Magic Barrel -and- Idiots First (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Full-Leather. A deluxe Franklin Library leatherbound edition offering two collections of short stories by New York City's Bernard Malamud. "The Magic Barrel," containing 13 stories, won the National Book Award for fiction in 1959. "Idiots First" offers twelve stories. With illustrations by Bert Silverman. Includes a drawn portrait of the author by Walter Rane near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Text presented on high-quality papers. Orange silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about Near Fine copy with a hint of sunning to edges of moire endpapers, otherwise bright, newish and lacking damages or evidence of having been read.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (12), 453 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Fiction >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 20.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86934
- Book number: 86934