first edition Hardcover
1959 · Boston
by Roth, Philip
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Printing stated. Very Good Plus, small rubs to cloth at corners, in a Very Good in original unclipped ($3.75) grey pictorial dust jacket by Sanford Roth, with first issue points, 1 3/4" narrow chip at front spine fold, small chips at corners and spine ends. Philip Roth's award-winning first book which instantly established its author's reputation. He went on in the 1990s to win America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for American Pastoral (1997). Basis for the 1969 film starring Richard Benjamin, Ali McGraw, and Jack Klugman..
(Inventory #: 010121)