New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of the Ruppert Mundys, big-league baseball's first permanent road team, that wanders from one city to the next during World War II. Stated first edition. First printing. Pages are slightly browned, but overall this is a clean copy with no writing, marks, or underlining save for a former owner's name and date on the front pastedown endpaper. No bookplates. No remainder marks. Not an ex-library copy. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true, and the corners are square. Boards do have some sunning to the upper edges, as does the upper textblock edge where the dark blue color has faded a bit. Dust jacket is not price-clipped but does have some flaws, namely some browning, some creasing to the jacket flaps, and general shelf wear including a few 1/2" tears along the edges. This collectible, very good/very good, first edition/first printing copy is protected with an archival mylar dust jacket cover. Satisfaction guaranteed!

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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: rarefirstscom (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000464
Title: The Great American Novel
Author: Roth, Philip
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0030045169
ISBN 13: 9780030045165
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Place of Publication: New York, Chicago, San Francisco
Date Published: 1973
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾

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