New York: Houghton Mifflin. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth Spine. 061873516X . An impeccable first edition, first printing in As New condition in alike dust jacket. Signed by author Philip Roth on the title page. A most collectible copy, rather scarce in signed condition; Roth's PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel, containing its share of autobiographical elements, is the story of the unnamed Jewish man who eventually dies of cardiac arrest. The "Everyman" grew up in New Jersey, studied art, worked in advertising, was married and divorced three times. He spent his last few years in a retirement village, painting and teaching art to his fellow residents; Small 8vo; [viii], 182, [2] pages; Signed by Author .

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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: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12685
Title: Everyman - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Roth, Philip
Format/Binding: Cloth Spine
Book Condition: New As New in As New dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 061873516X
ISBN 13: 9780618735167
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2006
Keywords: Jews Fiction United States Presidents Political, America Culture People, Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
Bookseller catalogs: Legendary Authors / Roth, Philip; Awarded Books / National Book Award; Awarded Books / National Book Critics Circle; Awarded Books / PEN/Faulkner Award;

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