When She Was Good

by Roth, Philip

When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roth's only novel with a female protagonist, Lucy Nelson. In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail.

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New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. Roth's third book, and his only novel with a female protagonist - "a Midwestern girl who believes herself to be the moral superior of her family and friends, and how she and those around her are destroyed when she sets out to prove that in matters of right and wrong she is… Read more about this item
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Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($5.95 price intact). Published by Random House, 1966. Octavo. Dark blue boards stamped in gold, red, blue, and green. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Red publisher's… Read more about this item
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NY: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Front jacket flaps clipped, jacket worn.. 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. An early novel by the late Philip Roth. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. Black cloth binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages .
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New York: Random House, 1967. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. An outstanding copy of the author's third book and second novel with a bright topstain and vibrant colors. A touch of foxing to the side page edges. Not often found in such collectible condition. Signed by… Read more about this item
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NY: Random House, 1967. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Roth in marker pen on verso of page listing his two previously published books (GOODBYE, COLUMBUS and LETTING GO). Red topstain faded, backstrip clothends minimally wrinkled; dustjacket with slight edgewear, mostly at the spine bottom edge. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [10], 4-306, [4] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, spine with gold, purple, and blue lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. This is Roth's only novel to feature a female… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [10], 4-306, [4] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, spine with gold, purple, and blue lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Philip Roth produced acclaimed fiction for over fifty… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House, 1967. First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page in a contemporary signature. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges...as a Dreiser who can write" (Stanley Elkin). The literary critic Harold… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half-title. Small patch of adhesive residue to the top right corner of the front endpaper, else Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket.
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New York: Random House, 1967. First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sept. 7, 1967 NYC To Jack Keeney- For the testimonial baquet- Philip Roth." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. High, careful tragedy,… Read more about this item
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WHEN SHE WAS GOOD

by Roth, Philip

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1967
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Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First. Hardcover. 0394451872 . Stated first printing. Dust jacket is price-intact, bottom edge clipped. Green endpapers, red topstain.Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked.; 306 pages .
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When She Was Good

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1967
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New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1967. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 0394451872 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 4-306, [4] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, spine with gold, reddish-purple, and blue lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Light green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design… Read more about this item
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When She Was Good

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New York: Random House, 1967. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Roth's third book, and second novel. A tight near fine copy with a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear.
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When She Was Good

by ROTH, Philip

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1967
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New York: Random House, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in else fine dust jacket with crease to the front flap fold. The author's third book.
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by Roth, Philip

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1967
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New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition of the author's third book. Very good in black cloth with faint dampstain to front endpaper in very good price intact dustwrapper. This copy SIGNED by Roth and is quite uncommon thus. Signed by Author.
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by Philip Roth

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1967
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Blue cloth with gold, green & red lettering. Has a slight old book smell, not musky but a hint of foxing on the uneven(rough) cut for edge page ends and bruised spine ends. a small spot of fade top front cover, fat lip top rear corner. The book is fat(bowed) on the rough-cut end. DJ has minor wear along the… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House, 1967. First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Christopher Lasch, with his name to the front free endpaper. Lasch was a historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to… Read more about this item
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WHEN SHE WAS GOOD

by Philip Roth

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1967
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New York: Random House. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. 1/4 inch open tear at top of rea gutter. Bumping at spine crown/heel and top/bottom of front panel. Crease at top of front flap corner. First Printing stated. .
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When She Was Good.

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1967.
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Random House,, 1967.. 1st. Hardcover. Collectable, very good. First printing. Almost like new book in VG+ jacket. Bound in blue cloth, Random House, 1967, stated first printing with no additional printings indicated. Book in perfect condition except just barely visible fading of color on upper and lower edges of cover. Jacket not price clipped (5.95), very minor… Read more about this item
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