MALAMUD, Bernard. The Tenants.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.

8vo.; in orange cloth with gilt titles on spine; with dust-jacket. Jacket lightly chipped on upper-left margin; edges rubbed. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing. 

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

Malamud’s sixth novel deals with the relationship between an African-American and a Jewish writer, the last tenants in an apartment building which is soon to be demolished.