Call It Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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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Call It Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Published
- 1965
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Woodstock, Illinois, USA
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NZ$2,113.17
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New York: Cooper Square Publishers Inc, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Roth on the title page. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar, Personal Appreciation by Meyer Levin, History by Harold U. Ribalow. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded at the spine and front panel, a small chip at the top edge,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Call it Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Original blue cloth. Near fine copy in the scarce first state dust jacket (chipped, spine panel defective with loss of bottom th
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- First edition of his first book
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- 1934
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- V, [i], [1]-599 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
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New York, New York, USA
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NZ$8,419.00
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New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First edition of his first book. v, [i], [1]-599 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Near fine copy in the scarce first state dust jacket (chipped, spine panel defective with loss of bottom third and partial loss of title at head) by Stuyvesant Van Veen. Booklabel of Abraham (Pascal) and Marcie Kanner… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$8,419.00
Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1960-01-01
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- Hardcover
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Dearborn, Michigan, USA
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NZ$227.31
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Pageant Books, 1960-01-01. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover, First thus 1960 Pageant Books 599 pages. Near Fine, in a NF DJ. Grey cloth boards with black spine panel and gilt titles - corners sharp. No previous owner marks - all pages are bright, clean and crisp.(Note: the font is somewhat larger than normal for this… Read more about this item Item Price
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Call It Sleep
by ROTH, Henry
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1934
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$3,367.60
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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,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Call it Sleep
by Henry Roth
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
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- 1935
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- Hardcover
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Beverly Hills, California, USA
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NZ$4,209.50
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Robert O. Ballou, 1935. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Robert O. Ballou [1935], New York, 1935. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket. 8vo. The second printing of the first edition of this classic novel of Jewish immigrant life in America was issued but one month after the first. Comes with a bookplate signed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st FSG Edition
- Published
- 1991
- ISBN
- 9780374118198
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Mulvane, Kansas, USA
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NZ$143.11
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Content appears as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in dark grape/Black boards with DJ displaying no significant surface/edge wear as shown.A great book about life on New York's Lower East Side as seen through the eyes of David, a young Jewish boy trying to fit in a world that is Jewish on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket issued; matching slipcase in Near Fine condition
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- Limited Signed and Numbered Edition
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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SANDY, Oregon, USA
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NZ$917.67
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San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Limited Signed and Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No dust jacket issued; matching slipcase in Near Fine condition. Book in very fine condition with no flaws. The author has signed and numbered this edition. Signed "Henry Roth" and numbered as 88 out of 300 copies. Illustrated with 48 photographs set in New York City during… Read more about this item Item Price
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Call it Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Pictorial wrappers, light edgewear with a few creases, cover starting along top crease, preserved in mylar
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- First mass-market paperback edition
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- 1964
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- Small 8vo
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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NZ$16,838.00
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New York: Avon, 1964. First mass-market paperback edition. Small 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, light edgewear with a few creases, cover starting along top crease, preserved in mylar. First mass-market paperback edition. Small 8vo. Inscribed to his father, the villain of this autobiographical novel. Signed and inscribed by Roth to his father: "To my father, Herman Roth / Kennst du… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$16,838.00
Call it Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st, This Ed.
- Published
- 1991
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780374118198
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truth or consequences, New Mexico, USA
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NZ$1,094.47
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. 1st, This Ed. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 462pp.; HB quarter-bound; maroon &blk.w/gilt; rub,bttm.corner; label scuff,ft.pastedwn.; clean,tight pgs. DJ blk.w/white spine-photocover. "Arguably the most distinguished work of fiction ever written about immigrant life." intro.by Alfred Kazin, afterword by Hana Wirth-Nesher. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Call It Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1934
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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NZ$47,146.40
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New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. vi, 599 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with navy stamping on spine, lettered in gilt, black topstain. Near Fine with slight sunning to spine, pages toned with age; author and bookseller Larry McMurtry's copy with his bookplate on paste down. In the original first state… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$47,146.40
Call It Sleep
by ROTH, Henry
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1934
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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NZ$5,893.30
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New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Spotting on the cloth boards, a good copy in good second issue dustwrapper worn at the extremities and with a modest chip at the crown. A classic Jewish-American novel (as well as a high point of proletarian fiction) about the terrors of a young boy growing… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$5,893.30
Call it Sleep
by Henry Roth
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Signed numbered edition
- Published
- 1994
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- Half leather over cloth
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Berkeley, California, USA
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NZ$589.33
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Arion Press, 1994. Signed numbered edition. half leather over cloth. Very good. Number 175 of 300 numbered signed copies of Call it Sleep, the 45th title of the Arion Press. Illustrated with contemporary photographs printed in duotone offset lithography. Very good condition in very good slipcase.C267. Item Price
NZ$589.33
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Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
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- Used - Very Good +
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1935
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- Cloth
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Waccabuc, New York, USA
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NZ$3,030.84
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New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1935. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. A handsome copy of the January 1935 2nd printing (following the 1st printing by 1 month), in the same iconic pictorial dustjacket illustrated by Stuyvesant Van Veem. Solid and VG+ (a touch of light offsetting at the inner hinges) in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with very… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$3,030.84
Call It Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 2005
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780312424121
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- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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NZ$10.25
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Picador USA, 2005. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
NZ$10.25
Call It Sleep : A Novel
by Henry Roth
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- Used - Acceptable
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- 2005
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- Paperback
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- 9780312424121
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- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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NZ$10.25
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Picador, 2005. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
NZ$10.25
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Call it Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1934
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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NZ$2,357.32
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New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first printing. Good, lacking the dust jacket. Cloth soiled, lightly scuffed, rubbed at the corners, faded at spine. Front hinge slightly started at bottom. Pages lightly toned, but unmarked. The American and Jewish literary classic, which was nearly forgotten shortly after publication, to be revived some… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$2,357.32
Call It Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Published
- 1960
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Chico, California, USA
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NZ$210.48
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Patterson: Pageant Books, Inc., 1960. Originally published in 1934, Roth's iconic novel has from the first moment been a critical success. First Edition copies are out of range for most collectors; but this reissue can stand as a good place-holder. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition Thus, including a History by Harold A. Ribalow; a Critical Introduction… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$210.48
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Call It Sleep.
by ROTH, Henry.
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- Used
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- 1965
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London, GBR
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NZ$2,056.47
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New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc.,, 1965. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Kenton Morse, ''Tis here! 'Tis here! 'Tis Gone!' Affectionately, Henry Roth." It is accompanied by a typed and signed postcard from Roth to Kenton Morse, in which he writes that has "discouraged at first about dramatic 'form', but easier now though not… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$2,056.47
Call It Sleep
by Roth, Henry
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1977
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780140181753
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- 1
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Buttaba, New South Wales, AUS
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NZ$6.12
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London, England: Penguin Group, 1977. Book. Good. Medium Softcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Medium softcover, reprint, 314gms, 439 pages. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.. Item Price
NZ$6.12
Call It Sleep
by Roth, Henry
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780312424121
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- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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NZ$10.09
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Picador USA, 2005. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
NZ$10.09
