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1 Philip Roth Between the Covers

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3 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X HEMINGWAY, Ernest, Philip Roth, et al. The Paris Review, No. 18, Spring. Paris: Paris Review Perfectbound magazine. Edited by George A. Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, Donald Hall, Robert B. Silvers, and Blair Fuller. Mild wear and one line underscored in ink on the copyright page, a near fine copy. Includes Plimpton's interview with Ernest Hemingway, and Philip Roth's story "The Conversion of the Jews" (later printed in the book Goodbye Columbus). Other contributors include Gordon Woodward, Jack Cope, Louis Simpson, D.J. Hughes, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, Charles Tomlinson, William Stafford, George P. Elliott, Robert Huff, W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Bly, George Starbuck, Joseph Langland, and drawings by Vali, Giacometti, Keogh, and William Péne du Bois. # $50 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X (Anthology) STYRON, William, introduction by. Best Short Stories From the Paris Review. New York: E.P. Dutton First edition. Spine and edges of the boards slightly tanned, else near fine in near fine, moderately soiled dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tears to the edges of the panels. Contributors include Samuel Beckett, Antoine Blondin, Italo Calvino, Owen Dodson, William Fain, Pati Hill, Mac Hyman, Jack Kerouac, John Phillips, Philip Roth, Hughes Rudd and Terry Southern. # $85 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X STYRON, William (editor). Best Short Stories from The Paris Review. New York: Dutton (1959). First edition. Fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with some soiling to the panels. Edited by William Styron; contains contributions by Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Philip Roth, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Italo Calvino, Mac Hyman, Antoine Blondin, Terry Southern, Gerard Kornelis Van Het Reve, John Phillips, Hughes Rudd, Pati Hill, William Fain, and Owen Dodson. # $40

4 (Anthology) SILBERMAN, James H., edited by. The Dial Fall New York: The Dial Press First edition. Near fine in spine faded wrappers. Contributors include Vance Bourjaily, Philip Roth, Herbert Gold, Ellen Currie, Nelson Algren, Richard Power, and T.S. Eliot. # $75 Inscribed to Philip Roth STARBUCK, George. Bone Thoughts. New Haven: Yale University Press First edition, hardcover issue. Introduction by Dudley Fitts. Fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with a short tear. Inscribed by the author to Philip Roth and his first wife, Margaret Martinson: "To Phil and Maggie who said just the best thing about it. George." Laid in is a Christmas card, handmade by Starbuck to the Roths, with a sonnet in the shape of a Christmas tree typed into it, with a personal note about his impending divorce, his plans for teaching, and his remark "Great about the novel," presumably referring to Roth's first novel, Goodbye Columbus winning the National Book Award. With original envelope dated December, Starbuck's first book, and the 56th selection in The Yale Younger Poets Series. # $500 STEGNER, Mary, edited by. Prize Stories 1960: The O. Henry Awards. New York: Doubleday & Company First edition. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Pages lightly stained, spine cocked, pen notation on first introduction page, thus good only in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with a chip on top front panel edge. Featuring: "The Ledge" by Lawrence Sargent Hall, "Defender of the Faith" by Philip Roth, "Shower of Ashes" by Robing White, and thirteen other stories. # $10

5 ROTH, Philip. Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library Limited edition reprint. Signed by the author. Near fine with a touch of fading to the spine. # $80 ROTH, Philip. Letting Go. New York: Random House (1962). First edition. Front hinge cracked, else very good in a near fine dustwrapper with some tiny tears and rubbing. Inscribed by the author to film director and actor Paul Bartel. The author's second book. # $600 ROTH, Philip. Letting Go. New York: Random House (1962). First edition. Fine in a slightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's complimentary slip laid in. The author's second book. # $125 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X ROTH, Philip. Letting Go. New York: Random House (1962). First edition. Small brown stain on front fly, else fine in very good edgeworn and rubbed dustwrapper with some minor taping from within of a two inch closed tear on back panel and small tears on bottom spine end. The author's second book. # $40

6 (Anthology) New American Review #1. New York: NAL (1967). First edition, the very uncommon hardcover issue (also issued simultaneously in paperback). Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Library of Congress deposit copy, so stamped on the copyright page. Contributors include Philip Roth, Robert Graves, Grace Paley, William Gass, Mordecai Richler, Anne Sexton, John Ashbery and many others. # $60 SOLOTAROFF, Theodore (editor). New American Review Number 1. New York: The New American Library (1967). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine. Includes "The Jewish Blues" by Phillip Roth as well as poems by John Ashbery and Anna Akhmatova. # $18 ROTH, Philip, Leslie A. Fiedler, Stephen Spender, Norman Mailer, Robert Coles, et al. [Portnoy's Complaint in] Partisan Review: Summer 1967, Volume XXXIV, Number 3. NJ: Rutgers Perfectbound magazine. Vol. 34, #3. Edited by William Phillips, Philip Rahv, and Steven Marcus. Near fine in with a mild crease to the pages. Contains Philip Roth's story "Whacking Off" (later incorporated into the novel Portnoy's Complaint), and a "Variety" section on Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali by Frank Conroy, Nat Hentoff, John Hollander, Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer, and Richard Poirier. Other contributors include Leslie A. Fiedler, Stephen Spender, John H. Gagnon, Marshall Cohen, Paul Neuburg, Frederick Seidel, Richard Howard, Robert Coles, John Henry Raleight, Tony Tanner, Lewis Coser, Henry David Aiken, Daniel Aaron, Merlyn S. Pitzele, and Kenneth Tynan. # $10

7 MALAMUD, Bernard and Philip Roth. [Vinyl record]: Bernard Malamud Reading His Complete Short Story "The Mourners" and Philip Roth Reading from "Letting Go". New York: CMS Records [1967]. First edition. Original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl album, pictorial sleeve with a note about each author on the rear. Small scrape through original shrinkwrap else fine. # $100 ROTH, Philip. When She Was Good. New York: Random House (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author's third book, not uncommon, but in superior condition # $125 ROTH, Philip. When She Was Good. New York: Random House (1967). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small clip (not price-clipped) and some creasing to the front flap, light soiling to the rear panel, and a few tiny nicks. # $35 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X (Anthology) KUEHL, John, edited by. (Philip Roth, William Styron). Write and Rewrite: A Study of the Creative Process. New York: Meredith Press (1967). First edition. Preface by Eudora Welty. Fine in a rubbed and slightly age-toned, very good or better dustwrapper. A work about the creative writing process, with examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Philip Roth, William Styron, and others. This copy Signed by Styron, as well as Inscribed by Philip Roth. # $500

8 SOLOTAROFF, Theodore, edited by. New American Review: Number 3. New York: New American Library (1968). First edition. Very good plus in wrappers, crease to spine and edgewear. Contributors include: Philip Roth, Josephine Herbst, Donald Barthelme, Albert Goldman, Leonard Michaels, George Dennison, Paul West, M. F. Beal, Robert Garis, John Malone, Frank Kermode, Lionel Abel, R. V. Cassill, Stephen Berg, John Berryman, Jayden Carruth, J. V. Cunningham, Bob Dawson, Allan Kaplan, John Knoepfle, Al Lee, and May Swenson. # $10 BOOKER, Bob and George Foster. "Pardon Me, Sir, But Is My Eye Hurting Your Elbow?" (New York: Bernard Geis 1968). First edition. Produced by Bob Booker and George Foster. Posed by Jack Gilford. Photography by Horn/Griner and cartoons from the famous Mad cartoonist, Mort Drucker. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with minor wear. The cast includes: Terry Southern, Arthur Kopit, Herbert Gold, Jack Richardson, Bruce Jay Friedman, Booker and Foster, Allen Ginsberg, Arnold Weinstein, Robert Paul Smith, Philip Roth, and Gregory Corso. # $50 ROTH, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Famed screenwriter Ernest Lehman made his directorial debut with the 1972 film starring Richard Benjamin and Karen Black. Burgess 99. Not uncommon, but a beautiful copy and infrequently found thus. # $350

9 ROTH, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House (1969). First edition. Cloth edges lightly faded, else very good in a very good clipped (but not price clipped) dustwrapper with a chip on the rear panel, slight loss at the spinal extremities, and some fading to the flap folds (the book was probably shelved foredge-out for a time). Famed screenwriter Ernest Lehman made his directorial debut with the 1972 film starring Richard Benjamin and Karen Black. Burgess 99. # $75 ROTH, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint. London: Jonathan Cape (1969). First English edition. Fine in a very lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. Famed screenwriter Ernest Lehman made his directorial debut with the 1972 film starring Richard Benjamin and Karen Black. Burgess 99. # $85 ROTH, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Bantam (1969). Reprint. Trade paperback. Some creases along the spine, else a fine copy in wrappers. # $10 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X (Anthology) PLIMPTON, George, and Peter Ardery, edited by. the American Literary Anthology 2: The Second Annual Collection of the Best from the Literary Magazines. New York: Random House (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very light soiling. Entries selected by Philip Roth and others. # $40

10 ROTH, Philip. Our Gang. New York: Random House (1971). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $30 ROTH, Philip. Our Gang. New York: Random House (1971). First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. # $25 ROTH, Philip. Our Gang: Starring Tricky And His Friends. London: Jonathan Cape (1971). First English edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. A satire written about the President of the United States. # $35

11 ROTH, Philip. Our Gang. New York: Bantam Books (1973). Reprint. Mass market paperback. Near fine. # $10 ROTH, Philip. The Breast. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1972). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A particularly fresh copy. # $35 ROTH, Philip. The Breast. New York: Holt First edition. A few tiny dots on the foredge, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight wear. # $20 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X ROTH, Philip. The Breast. (New York): Penguin Books (1985). First paperback edition of the revised text. Near fine in wrappers. # $10

12 SOLOTAROFF, Theodore, edited by. American Review 17: The Magazine of New Writing. New York: Bantam (1973). First edition. Fine in wrappers. Contributors include: Malcolm Lowry, Harold Brodkey, Philip Roth, Richard Howard, John H. Schaar, Thomas J. Cottle, Richard Gilman, Gary Gildner, Anne Higgins, Reynolds Price, Mark Strand, C. G. McNeill, Lloyd Schwartz, James Seay, Michael Dennis Browne, Stephen Dixon, Robert Granat, Philip Levine, Robert Nye, Theodore Weiss, Tom Garst, Richard Hoffman, Donald Petersen, and Richard Hill. # $10 SOLOTAROFF, Theodore, edited by. American Review 18: The Magazine of New Writing. New York: Bantam (1973). First edition. Near fine in wrappers, light soiling. Contributors include: Gunter Grass, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, Michael Rossman, Irving Feldman, Hayden Carruth, Rika Lesser, Rudy Kikel, Brendan Galvin, Muriel Rukeyser, Michael Decker, Leonard Michaels, Michael Berryhill, Edward Harkness, Barry Targan, Allen Wiggins, G. T. Wright, Stanley Kauffmann, Madeline Defrees, Tom Disch, Rosellen Brown, Hugh Walthall, Mary Kathleen O'Donnell, Heather McHugh, and Marilyn Hacker. # $10 ROTH, Philip. [Story]: Four Mundys [in] The Pennsylvania Gazette, April Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Gazette Quarto. Stapled illustrated wrappers. A little age-toning, subscription label removed from rear cover, else a near fine copy. Includes a baseball story about four losers, excerpted from his then forthcoming novel The Great American Novel in the alumni magazine of the University of Pennsylvania. # $250

13 X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (Baseball Fiction) ROTH, Philip. The Great American Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1973). First edition. Near fine, with slight fading to edges of boards, in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with little edgewear and two short tears on the front panel. A homeless baseball team wanders the country aimlessly during the Second World War. # $45 ROTH, Philip. The Great American Novel. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1973). First edition. Very good with a faded area at the top edge of the rear board, in a very good dustwrapper. # $25 ROTH, Philip. My Life as a Man. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974). First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. # $20 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X HILLS, Rust (editor). Writer's Choice. New York: David McKay Company, Inc. (1974). Later edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Includes selections from John Barth, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Philip Roth, and John Updike. # $25

14 ROTH, Philip. The Professor of Desire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1977). First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with small wrinkles at the top of the spine # $25 KUNDERA, Milan. Laughable Loves. (London): John Murray (1978). First English edition. Introduction by Philip Roth. Near fine with foxing to the top page edges, in a near fine dustwrapper. # $ Bantam Paperbacks Literature for Colleges and Universities. (New York: Bantam Books 1979). First edition. Quarto. Stapled card covers. 32pp. Fine. Front cover: Philip Roth, Ray Bradbury, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Steinbeck, Anaïs Nin, and more. # $15 ROTH, Philip. The Ghost Writer. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux First edition. Light wear, near fine in fine dustwrapper. # $20

15 ROTH, Philip. The Ghost Writer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux First trade edition. Owner name, slightly cocked else fine in fine, priceclipped dustwrapper. # $15 JONES, Judith Patterson & Guinevera A. Nance. Philip Roth. New York: Frederick Ungar (1981). First paperback issue. Fine in wrappers. # $10 ROTH, Philip. Zuckerman Unbound. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1981). First edition. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. # $150 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X ROTH, Philip. Zuckerman Unbound. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1981). First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears. # $40

16 ROTH, Philip. Zuckerman Unbound. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1981). First edition. Near fine with remainder mark on bottom page foredges in fine dustwrapper. # $10 (Anthology) SOLOTAROFF, Ted, edited by. Many Windows: 23 Stories From American Review. (New York): Harper & Row (1982). Uncorrected Proof. Fine in wrappers. Contributors include Harold Brodkey, Gilbert Sorrentino, Dinah Brooke, Gabriel García Márquez, Andrew Fetler, George Dennison, John Berryman, William H. Gass, Grace Paley, Robert Stone, John Hawkes, William Mathers, Donald Barthelme, Max Apple, Philip Roth, M. F. Beal, Austin Clarke, Leonard Michaels, Anne Higgins, Ian McEwan, Vasily Aksenov and J.F. Powers. # $35 ROTH, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library First edition. Fine in full leather with three raised bands and gold stamping, all edges gilt, silk ribbon placemarker, printed marbled endpapers. One of an unspecified number of copies of the first edition Signed by the author, with a special message to subscribers from the author not included in the trade edition. # $100 ROTH, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1983). First edition. Fine in fine slipcase (now shown in illustration) and opened but intact publisher's original shrinkwrap. Copy 221 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. # $150

17 ROTH, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1983). First edition. Sticker shadow on the front pastedown, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $30 ROTH, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson. London: Jonathan Cape (1984). Uncorrected Proof of the first British edition. Near fine in wrappers. # $70 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X ROTH, Philip. Reading Myself and Others. (New York): Penguin Books (1985). New expanded edition. Trade paperback. Near fine with agetoning to pages and inside cover. # $20

18 ROTH, Philip. The Counterlife. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library First edition. Fine without dustwrapper as issued, full leather with gilt stamping, marbled endpapers, silk place holder, all edges gilt. Signed by the author. # $175 ROTH, Philip. The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux First edition. Very light wear, fine in fine dustwrapper. # $10 ROTH, Philip. Deception. New York: Simon & Schuster (1990). First edition. A touch of wear to the boards, near fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. # $10 ROTH, Philip. Patrimony. New York: Simon & Schuster (1991). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly faded. # $10

19 ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. New York: Simon & Schuster (1993). Advance copy of the first edition. Cloth and papercovered boards as issued, without dustwrapper. Fine. Laid in is an invitation for an autograph party for the book. Briefly Inscribed by the author. Published in advance of publication for booksellers. Unusual format for an advance copy. Winner of the 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. # $450 ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. New York: Simon & Schuster (1993). Cloth and papercovered boards as issued, without dustwrapper. Fine. Published in advance of publication for booksellers. Unusual format for an advance copy. Winner of the 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction # $75 ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library First edition. Fine in full leather with gold stamping and raised bands, all edges gilt, silk ribbon place marker, marbled endpaper, with a special preface by him not included in the trade edition. Signed by the author. # $115 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. New York: Simon & Schuster First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple small tears. # $20

20 APPELFELD, Aharon. Beyond Despair. New York: Fromm International Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Mild soiling, very good in wrappers with publishers promotional letter laid in. Three lectures and a talk with Philip Roth. The first book of essays by the Israeli novelist. # $25 McQUADE, Molly, edited by. An Unsentimental Education: Writers and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago (1995). Uncorrected page proof. Very good with publisher notations on front and rear cover, glue residue from sticker on front cover. Some authors include Saul Bellow, Paul Carroll, Hayden Carruth, Robert Coover, Leon Forrest, June Jordan, Janet Kauffman, Jackson McLow, Morris Philipson, M. L. Rosenthal, Philip Roth, Susan Fromberg Shaeffer, Charles Simic, George Starbuck, George Steiner, Richard Steiner, Nathaniel Tarn, Douglas Unger, Kurt Vonnegut, Marguerite Young. # $20 ROTH, Philip. Sabbath's Theater. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin First edition, Advance Reading Copy. Fine in wrappers. National Book Award winner. # $25

21 ROTH, Philip. Sabbath's Theater. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. # $10 ROTH, Philip. American Pastoral. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company Uncorrected proof. Fine in printed wrappers. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. # $100 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X ROTH, Philip. American Pastoral. New York: Vintage Press (1997). Advance Reading Copy of the first paperback edition (with special promotional text on the inside front cover and rear wrapper). Fine in pictorial wrappers. Author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this novel. # $40

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