Portnoy's Complaint
by Roth, Philip
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1969. Roth's hillarious novel was controversial upon publication; now it is a classic. This is a Near Fine copy of the Fourth Printing of the First Edition. Navy blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. Clean text; 274 pages. Previous-owner chop to endpaper. The dustjacket has been clipped; some minor wrinkling and closed tears; very slightly faded on the spine. In a protective plastic cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001786
- Title
- Portnoy's Complaint
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Later Printing.
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- On Hold;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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