Philip Roth / GOODBYE COLUMBUS Signed 1st Edition 1959
$ 1056.0
Description
Philip Roth / GOODBYE COLUMBUS Signed 1st Edition 1959. Philip Roth was born March 19, 1933 in Newark, NJ to two Jewish parents. Author: Roth, Philip. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Tan grey spine with black lettering. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, stains throughout, and light fraying along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges. GOODBYE, COLUMBUS [Signed] Author: Roth, Philip Title: GOODBYE, COLUMBUS [Signed] Publication: Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959 Edition: First Edition, First Printing Description: Octavo, 298 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Tan grey spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$3.75", has mild shelving wear, small open tears along the head fore corners and spine tail edge, chipping along the head edges, stains throughout, and mild to moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, stains throughout, and light fraying along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges. Textblock has light soiling on some pages, stains on the fore edges of the front end-page to page 11, light soiling on the end-pages and pastedowns, a blue pen name on the front end-page, mild wear along the edges, light foxing along the head edge, and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Philip Roth on the second half-title page. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 7. NOTES Philip Roth was born March 19, 1933 in Newark, NJ to two Jewish parents. Roth was an award-winning author praised for his fiction, noted for it's ability to blur reality and fiction and it's explorations of American identity. Roth would first gain attention for his 1959 short story collection "Goodbye, Columbus". "Goodbye, Columbus" and the five other short stories within explores the experiences and concerns of second and third-generation Jews as they assimilated into the post-war American lifestyle of white-collar work and suburbia. "Goodbye, Columbus" would receive some controversy following it's publication for it's poor depiction of some Jewish characters, earning accusations that Roth was a self-hating Jew. Despite the controversy, "Goodbye, Columbus" saw widespread commercial and critical success, earning the 1960 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and a 1969 movie adaptation of the titular novella. Seller ID: 1393111 Subject: Dupont Circle, Literature Welcome to the eBay store of Second Story Books! DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have an extensive internet presence and provide accredited appraisals member ASA. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
