copyright 1979, Fifth Impression; G.P. Putnam's Sons publishers, New York; smaller hardbound in mustard/blue boards with black lettering along spine; very good condition; dust jacket very good.
 
Cruel Shoes is a collection of essays and short stories by Steve Martin, and his first published book, and is also the title of one of the pieces therein, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store.