Signed first edition of Roth's first book, winner of the 1960 National Book Award for fiction.
Fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $3,000.00
"How far back must you go to discover the beginning of trouble?"
The titular novella and five additional short stories of this collection originally appeared in THE NEW YORKER, COMMENTARY, and THE PARIS REVIEW, prestigious publications whose august approval exhilarated and intoxicated the young Roth: "In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan - about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success" (Roth, "Goodbye Newark").
Read more: Roth, "Goodbye Newark: Roth Remembers His Beginnings," The New York Times.
First printing (stated). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. 8'' x 5.5''. Original dark blue cloth. Yellow topstain. In original unclipped ($3.75) grey pictorial dust jacket by Sanford Roth. 298 pages. Signed by Roth on front free endpaper. Minor wear, sunning and faint soil to jacket spine and edges. Clean and sharp overalll.
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