Goodbye, Columbus (w/Signed Note)
by ROTH, Philip
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good ++
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Tight, clean copy of this, the first edition of Roth's elusive first book. Winner of the Houghton Literary Fellowship Award in the year of publication. Signed by the author on a laid in slip (TLS) signed in July of 1970. Dustwrapper maintains the $3.75 price. Shows a tiny bit of edgewear and darkening to extremes of dust jacket. Previous owner's neat signature and date to top of half-title page. 298 pp. . Signed Note Laid in. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good ++.
Synopsis
Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the title of the first book published by the American novelist Philip Roth, a collection of six stories. In addition to its title novella, set in New Jersey, Goodbye, Columbus contains the five short stories "The Conversion of the Jews," "Defender of the Faith," "Epstein," "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings," and "Eli, the Fanatic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7000815
- Title
- Goodbye, Columbus (w/Signed Note)
- Author
- ROTH, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Addbooks97;
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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