Rembrandt’s Hat.

MALAMUD, Bernard.

$475.00

Item Number: 100043

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

First edition of this collection of short stories by the author of The Natural. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Susie and Paul, Kind good friends- Bern May 1973.” The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

“Each [story] is touched ... by a wistful and ironic humor and beautifully bold fantasy.... What Malamud masterfully brings out in each story is the concrete demand, the absorbing reality, of the impossible wish" (The New York Times).