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The Anatomy Lesson - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Roth, Philip
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition in unread Fine condition, SIGNED by author Philip Roth; The third novel from Roth to feature Nathan Zuckerman as the main character. Facing middle age, an undiagnosable pain in his neck keeps him from writing and in a burst of nostalgia and ambition, Zuckerman resolves to return to the University of Chicago, his alma mater, to pursue medical school. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker, simply superb quality, Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 291, [5] pages; Signed by Author .
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
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18818
- Title
- The Anatomy Lesson - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Full-Leather
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Roth, Philip;
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