MALAMUD, Bernard. A New Life (UK Edition).

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.

8vo.; in dark gray cloth with silver and red titles on spine; with dust-jacket. Jacket rubbed at the spine, slightly stained; faint discoloring on back jacket; a very good copy.

First British edition (first published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in 1961).

Malamud’s own copy, inscribed on title page by his wife Ann Malamud: “Personal property of Bernard Malamud / Ann Malamud”.

Malamud’s third novel is the semi-autobiographical campus story of Sy Levin, who takes up a new job at Cascadia College. Jonathan Lethem, in his introduction to the FSG Classics re-edition of the novel, calls it “an overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel.”