The Breast
by Philip Roth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0030037166
- ISBN 13
- 9780030037160
- Seller
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Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
A very nice, bright first printing of the first American edition [Holt, Rinehart & Winston NY 1972]. The book is in fine condition and is inscribed by Philip Roth directly on the front free end paper. The book has no remainder marks, a tight and square binding, with no owner inscriptions or highlighting and no staining or marking. The dust jacket is in equally fine condition, not price-clipped ($4.95 ), with no creases, chips or tears and absolutely minimal shelf wear. It is now protected by an archival cover which is easily removable. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information concerning this superb and highly collectible book.
Synopsis
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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- Bookseller
- C&S Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001071
- Title
- The Breast
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0030037166
- ISBN 13
- 9780030037160
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 78
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