"unique addition to the lasting literature about men and women": First Edition of My Life As A Man; Signed by Philip Roth
My Life as a Man.
Roth, Philip.
$975.00Item Number: 16008
New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974.
First edition of Roth’s seventh novel. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Larry Kramer- my best to you- from the corner of 54th + 5th-Good luck with your play Philip Roth May 7, 1974.” The recipient, Larry Kramer is an American playwright and novelist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film Women and Love, which earned an Academy Award nomination. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Destiny of Me, and is a two-time recipient of the Obie Award. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a closed tear the front panel. A nice association.
"A very grand work...in invention, in perception...in coming to grips with the wild inconsistencies of life and art" (The New Yorker).
Other Books by this Author
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Uncorrected Proof the The Breast; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
The Breast.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
Uncorrected proof of the author’s comic novella which features David Kapesh’s transformation into a 155 pound breast. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $250.00
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Roth, Philip.
The Counterlife.
New York: FSG, 1986.
First Trade edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $550.00
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First Edition of Philip Roth’s First Book Goodbye, Columbus; Signed by Him
Roth, Philip.
Goodbye, Columbus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Light rubbing to the bottom cloth, fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual toning to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A superior example.
Price: $6,500.00
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Signed by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Philip Roth: Novels 1993-1995: Operation Shylock and Sabbath’s Theater.
New York: Library of America, 2010.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page.
Price: $250.00
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Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Philip Roth Nemeses: Everyman; Indignation; The Humbling; Nemesis.
New York: Library of America, 2013.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00
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First Edition of Sabbath’s Theater; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Sabbath’s Theater.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
First edition of Roth’s second National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $350.00
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First Edition of The Professor of Desire; Inscribed by Philip Roth to Novelist Jack Leggett
Roth, Philip.
The Professor of Desire.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
First edition of Roth’s second book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Jack Leggett, “To Jack Philip Aug. 1977.” Leggett was a biographer and literary mentor and head of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where Philip Roth taught. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A nice association.
Price: $975.00
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First British Edition of the Author’s National Book Award Winning Novel Goodbye, Columbus; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Goodbye, Columbus.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959.
First British edition of the author’s first book. Signed by Roth on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00
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"You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute": First Edition of Nemesis; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Nemesis.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2010.
First Edition. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page, without the bookstore stamp.
Price: $175.00
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Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Philip Roth: Novels 2001-2007: The Dying Animal; The Plot Against America; Exit Ghost.
New York: Library of America, 2013.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00
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First Edition of Exit Ghost; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Exit Ghost.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
First edition of the author’s final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00
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First Edition of Portnoy's Complaint; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Portnoy’s Complaint.
New York: Random House, 1969.
First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, red topstain. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A superior example.
Price: $1,750.00
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First Edition of The Human Stain; Signed By Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
The Human Stain.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive": First Edition of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel American Pastoral; Signed By Him
Roth, Philip.
American Pastoral.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $1,000.00
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First Edition of Philip Roth's The Prague Orgy; Signed by Him
Roth, Philip.
Prague Orgy.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Light wear, near fine in a
Price: $425.00
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Roth, Philip.
Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories.
New York: Modern Library, 1966.
Modern Library edition of Roth’s first book that went on to win the National Book Award. Signed by author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00
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“For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity”: First Edition of Philip Roth's Comic Novel The Breast; Signed by Him
Roth, Philip.
The Breast.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972.
First edition of Roth’s first book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00
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"Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up": First Edition of The Dying Animal; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
The Dying Animal.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
First edition of Roth’s third book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh, preceded by The Breast (1971) and The Professor of Desire (1977). Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page.
Price: $200.00
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Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories.
Shelton, CT: First Edition Library.
The facsimile of the first printing of the Houghton Mifflin edition from 1959. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket with slipcase which is in fine condition.
Price: $225.00
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Signed Limited Edition of Philip Roth's The Counterlife
Roth, Philip.
The Counterlife.
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1986.
First edition of the signed limited of fourth novel in the author’s Zuckerman series. Octavo, original red leather with gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels. All edges gilt. Signed by Philip Roth. In fine condition. Laid into this copy is a note from the editors of the Franklin Library.
Price: $85.00
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Roth, Philip.
The Humbling.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
First Edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00
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First Edition of Philip Roth's Our Gang; Signed by Him
Roth, Philip.
Our Gang.
New York: Random House, 1971.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page.
Price: $225.00
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First Edition of Philip Roth's Everyman; Signed by Him
Roth, Philip.
Everyman.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
First edition of this novel, which is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
Price: $150.00
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First Edition of Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer; Signed by Him
Roth, Philip.
The Ghost Writer.
New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1979.
First edition of the author’s first book in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page.
Price: $500.00
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First Edition of Philip Roth's When She Was Good; Signed by Him
Roth, Philip.
When She Was Good.
New York: Random House, 1967.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00
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Roth, Philip.
Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1959. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories and Letting Go.
New York: Library of America, 2005.
First edition in the series of The Library of America Roth series. Octavo, original green cloth. Fine in a fine slipcase. Signed by the author on the title page.
Price: $200.00
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Signed Limited First Edition of Portnoy's Complaint
Roth, Philip.
Portnoy’s Complaint.
New York: Random House, 1969.
Signed limited first edition. Octavo, original cloth. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Philip Roth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in fine condition.
Price: $750.00
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First Edition of The Anatomy Lesson; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
The Anatomy Lesson.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1983.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. An excellent example in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Dust jacket design by Sigrid Spaeth.
Price: $350.00
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First Edition of Indignation; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
Indignation.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Signed Twice by Philip Roth, once on the title page and again on the limitation page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00
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"Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up": First Edition of The Dying Animal; Signed by Philip Roth
Roth, Philip.
The Dying Animal.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
First Edition. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Basis for the motion picture “Elegy” starring Ben Kingsley as David Kapesh.
Price: $375.00
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