Malamud, Bernard. Idiots First. Signed. Farrar Straus & Company, New York, 1963.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed on front free endpaper: "Bernard Malamud". Wear to DJ edges and a few old tape marks to top spine edge and verso of DJ. Interior is clean and unmarked. BF

Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.

Malamud, Bernard. IDIOT'S FIRST. Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1963.

Price: US$90.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, ltr. prnt. (6th, 1967). Signed by Malamud on the red front free endpage. Cloth-covered boards with shelfwear at corners; dustjacket with quarter inch tear on the topedge of the spine fold, minimal rubbing. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Malamud's second collection of stories.

Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Malamud, Bernard. Idiots First. Farrar Straus and Company, 1963.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Signed bookplate by Malamud laid in. Edgewear, closed tear, discoloration and slight markings to dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+.

Seller: Evergreen Books LLC, Lakewood, CO, U.S.A.

Bernard Malamud. Idiots First. Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine Copy In a near Fine Jacket.First Edition Stated$4.50 on Flap.Rare Presentation Copy."For Martha Rock Bernard Malamud. " Excellent Fresh Copy.

Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.

Malamud, Bernard. Idiots First. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy; signed and inscribed by Malamud to artist and close friend, Rosemarie Beck. Very good with some staining to covers in a like jacket with some wear and a few small tears. Malamud and Beck met at the Yaddo art colony in 1958 and remained close for the next 30 years. They were both very supportive of each other's artistic endeavors and provided each other with a great deal criticism and encouragement. An excellent association.

Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Malamud, Bernard. Idiots First.. Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1963.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Susie and Paul Old and good friends Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag.ÂFine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marshall Lee. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. The twelve stories in this collection are all revised or expanded from versions printed in various magazines between 1950 and 1963.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Malamud, Bernard. Idiots First.. Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1963.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his cousin, "For Marshall, Every good wish Bernie."ÂNear fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Marshall Lee. The twelve stories in this collection are all revised or expanded from versions printed in various magazines between 1950 and 1963.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.