MALAMUD, Bernard. The People and Uncollected Stories (Inscribed by Ann Malamud).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.

8vo.; in black cloth with copper titles over red boards, with dust-jacket. Jacket slightly crumpled on upper edges, otherwise a fine copy.

First edition, first printing, signed by Ann Malamud on free front endpapers, along with insert pencil drawing of a flower (author unknown).

Malamud left the unfinished novel The People at the time of his death, in 1989, which is published here along with sixteen uncollected stories (including five of his early stories). With a preface by Malamud’s editor and publisher, Robert Giroux.