First UK edition of Roth's novella, in unusually nice condition and with the scarce and striking dust jacket.
Near fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $700.00
"[M]e, the outsider who might one day be an insider."
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS first appeared in THE PARIS REVIEW, one of the prestigious publications to offer its exhilarating approval to a 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. (London): Andre Deutsch, (1959). 7'' x 4.75''. Original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (10s 6d) pictorial dust jacket by Adrian Bailey. 157, [1] pages. Offsetting to front endpapers, faint staining to lower margins of pages 25-30. Minor chipping and edgewear, light soil to jacket.
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