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Malamud, Bernard. Dubin's Lives [signed]. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1979.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 362 pages; burnt orange cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt facsimile signature to front; signed by author in black ink to front free endpaper, light orange endpapers; edition limited to 750 copies; some wear to head & tail of spine; a very good copy.
Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Bernard Malamud. Dubin's Lives. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. First printing, stated. SIGNED by author on ffep. Jacket clean, in mylar. NF, appears unread. Pages/boards/jacket clean, binding tight.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Malamud, Bernard. DUBIN'S LIVES. Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1979.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first prnt. Third issue with corrected p231-32 tipped-in. Signed by Malamud on the front free endpage. Touch of shelfwear and rubbing on the green board cloth; dustjacket with beginning toning, mostly on the topedges and spine ends touched. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Malamud, Bernard. Dubin's Lives. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, NY, 1979.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp 362. Inscribed to Malou and Don.
Seller: Muse Book Shop, DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Malamud, Bernard. Dubin's Lives. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1979.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed "Ingmar Bjorksten -- for my Swedish connection in the U.S.A. with every good wish / Bernard Malamud" This presentation to Bjorksten, a cultural journalist and member of the Swedish Academy seems to have been a part in Malamud's campaign for the Nobel Prize. Second printing of the Farrar (trade) edition, published as a volume in "The Collected Works of Bernard Malamud". Nice copy in dust jacket.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Malamud, Bernard. DUBIN'S LIVES. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1979.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. [6], 362 pp. First trade edition (second state), review copy; signed and inscribed by Malamud. As issued, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A fresh copy with little in the way of shelfwear; top edges of the boards are a bit sunned; front board is a little splayed; moderate to heavy foxing to the fore-edge; jacket is crisp if a bit sunned at the spine; ghost of residue on the reverse of the jacket at the spine, not visible from the outside of the jacket. A very nice review copy with several pieces of promotional material including a photograph that was used for the back panel of the jacket. This copy retains the original leaf with printing error and has the missing words written in (ink smeared on the last word)--Ahearn in his price guide calls this the "second state." This copy is signed and inscribed to the reviewer, D. H. Lawrence scholar, Keith Cushman. Ahearn APG 015c.
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. [8], 358 pp. First edition, advanced reading copy; signed by Malamud. In publisher's salmon wrappers. Quite a fresh copy; spine sunned, but little in the way of wear or soiling to the covers; contents clean. Review slip laid in at the rear. Ahearn APG 015a.
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Third issue with corrected page 231 tipped in. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
MALAMUD, Bernard. Dubin's Lives. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1979.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, third state with last line of text present on page 231. Heavily foxed on the foredge, a little sunning on the boards, and a tiny nick on the front fly, very good in very good dustwrapper with several small tears. Inscribed by Malamud to Chet Garrison (a close friend and colleague of Malamud's) and his wife Louise: "For Louise & Chet In appreciation of a long friendship, Bern." The Garrisons were also the dedicatees of a 1967 omnibus edition of Malamud's work, *The Malamud Reader*. There are several very light pencil notes or marks in the text, probably in Chet Garrison's hand. 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MALAMUD, Bernard. Dubin's Lives. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1979.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, third state. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Malamud's wry take on love and marriage, with p. 231 appearing in its third, corrected state. Inscribed by the author to Janet Harte, a Texas philanthropist.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.