When She Was Good.

ROTH, Philip.

$475.00

Item Number: 115622

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Roth’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Sept. 7, 1967 NYC To Jack Keeney- For the testimonial baquet- Philip Roth.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman.

"High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges...as a Dreiser who can write" (Stanley Elkin). The literary critic Harold Bloom declared that "Roth is a living master" in The New York Review of Books.