⚾ Step up to the plate with this very good copy of Bernard Malamud’s debut novel, The Natural—the first UK edition, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1963, nearly eleven years after its American debut. A landmark of literary sports fiction, this edition was thoughtfully adapted for British readers with Malamud’s own note and glossary of American baseball terms—a nod to cricket-loving fans across the pond. Later immortalized in the 1984 Oscar-nominated film starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, and Kim Basinger, The Natural remains a mythic tale of flawed greatness and redemption.

📘 Details:

•  8vo. 248pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, silver-stamped spine

•  Dust jacket: Very good, price-clipped with penciled in $3.95, light edgewear, chipping to spine tips, foxing/toning 

•  Book: Slight spine lean, bump to upper spine tip, typical foxing to endpapers and edges

•  Small bookstore label to lower front pastedown

A collectible copy with character—ideal for fans of literary Americana, baseball lore, and Malamud’s masterful storytelling.