I Married A Communist. by Roth, Philip - 1998

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. From the library of fellow novelist John Barth, with his signature to the half-title page. Barth won the National Book Award in fiction for his novel Chimera. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. A remarkable work—remarkable in its stringent observation of American life...remarkable in its wisdom. Mr. Roth has the frantic politics of this frantic time—the McCarthy era—in exact pitch" (Arthur Schlesinger, The New York Observer).