First edition. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 269, [1, sources]. Quarter-bound black cloth over brown paper boards, lettered in copper to spine.
Edited and with an introduction by Robert Giroux.
Published posthumously, sixteen of the twenty projected chapters of the unfinished title novella, about a nineteenth century Jewish peddler adopted as chief by an Indian tribe in the Pacific Northwest. Additionally it prints sixteen previously uncollected short stories, five of them hitherto unpublished.
By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Natural (1952), and The Fixer (1966). "A significant addition to Malamud's singular work." –Library Journal