signed first edition Hardcover
1959 · Boston
by ROTH, Philip
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Tight, clean copy of this, the first edition of Roth's elusive first book. Winner of the Houghton Literary Fellowship Award in the year of publication. Signed by the author on a laid in slip (TLS) signed in July of 1970. Dustwrapper maintains the $3.75 price. Shows a tiny bit of edgewear and darkening to extremes of dust jacket. Previous owner's neat signature and date to top of half-title page. 298 pp. . Signed Note Laid in. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good ++.
(Inventory #: 7000815)