Description: An outstanding unsigned first edition of Bernard Malamud's debut novel published by Harcourt Brace and Company in New York in 1952.  Book Condition: 8vo. 237 pages; Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.25 VG/VG with publishers' blue cloth boards with gilt stamped print to the spine. Light edgewear with a few spots to the cloth and a small bump to the spine ends. The jacket is in nice condition with part of the $3.00 price clipped on the upper front flap. Some light edgewear, a few stains and small toned tape remnants to the verso of the jacket, corners are clipped with some toning. Overall, a desirable example of this classic baseball novel, which was famously adapted for the screen in 1984, starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs.