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Call It Sleep
by ROTH, Henry
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second printing, published one month after the first, in second issue dustwrapper with blurbs from Edwin Seaver and Fred. T. Marsh on the front flap. A small burn shadow on front board, else near very good in about very good dust jacket with chipping mostly at the spine ends, a crease on the spine, and evidence of old internal tape repairs. A classic Jewish-American novel about the terrors of a young boy growing up in a squalid and poverty-stricken urban immigrant neighborhood, it is also a classic of proletarian fiction. Forgotten almost immediately upon publication, it was rediscovered in the 1950s and '60s and now stands among the finest novels of the 20th Century. The first edition is rare and expensive; this second printing is nearly as rare and is the only contemporary printing that reproduces the splendid, Stuyvesant Van Veen-illustrated wraparound jacket art of the first printing.
Synopsis
Call It Sleep is a 1934 novel by Henry Roth. Time magazine described it as "The story of three years in the life of a sensitive Jewish slum-child, told with painstaking and pain-giving fidelity," in the February 25, 1935 edition. While the book sold poorly upon its initial publication, the book received a second life when it was reviewed by literary critic Irving Howe on the front page of The New York Times Book Review on October 25, 1964, and has since sold over a million copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 533820
- Title
- Call It Sleep
- Author
- ROTH, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert O. Ballou
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- AmerLit20thCent, VintageDustjackets, JewishInterest, NYCinterest
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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