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Letting Go
by ROTH, Philip
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. A first printing of the first full-length novel and second published work by Philip Roth. The author explores the sometimes comical experiences of his Gabe Wallach character and his circle of friends in academia. Stated first printing on copyright page. Mr. Roth won fame and the National Book Award for Fiction for his first published story collection, "Goodbye, Columbus". --- In blue cloth-covered boards backed in black cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling and lavender spine block decorations; author initials in blind to cover and faded pink topstain. Jacket features Nancy Sirkis photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, inking to rear endpaper and slight discoloration to edges of cloth; otherwise a sound, firmly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with minor chafing and small tears to edges, otherwise bright and protected in removable clear mylar wrapper.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (8), 631 pages .
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
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 82310
- Title
- Letting Go
- Author
- ROTH, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
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