Bernard Malamud: 'The Natural', New York, Harcourt, Brace & ...

Hammer

£650

Bernard Malamud: 'The Natural', New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1952, 1st edition, (stated first edition verso of title page), original publisher's blue cloth gilt, publisher's compliment slip loosely inserted, pictorial dust wrapper ($3.00 price to inside front flap intact). The author's first novel, widely considered as one of the greatest baseball narratives of all time, basis for the acclaimed 1984 film of the same name directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall and Kim Basinger.