Philip Roth Editor (55 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good, nice condition. Dust jacket has a rip and some chipping at top back cover edge. Book is flat, tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. James Stevenson; (illustrator). First Edition. (xii) 388 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Quarter-bound in green cloth on beige boards; decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; green upper edge. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few short tears around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by James Stevenson. There are far too many writers and articles here to list them all but some of the highlights are: Foreword by Peter V. Ueberroth; The Web of the Game by Roger Angell; Who's on First? - Anonlymous; The Grip by Jim Bouton; The Extinction of the .400 Hitter by Stephen Jay Gould; Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella; A Busher's Letters Home by Ring Lardner; Lines Composed in Exaltation Over the North Atlantic by James Michener; La Vie en Rose by Pete Rose; Josh - The Black Babe Ruth, or was Ruth the White Josh Gibson by Robert Peterson; My Baseball Years by Philip Roth; Pick-up Game by John Sayles; No Jury Would Convict by Irwin Shaw; Howard Ehmke by Red Smith; The Silent Season of a Hero - Joe DiMaggion by Gay Talese; Franks Chance's Diamond - Why Ring Lardner Soured on Baseball by Jonathan Yardley; and many, many more. Size: 8vo. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Illustrated red wrappers with yellow endpapers. Slight dust soiling to the bottom page edges, else unmarked. Stories collected from each decade since the 1940s. ; 686 pages.

dvd. Condition: Very Good. A clean, cared for item that is unmarked and shows limited shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Library of America Printing. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket price not clipped. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations.

An excellent series guided by its general editor Philip Roth. Near fine pictorial stiff wraps with strong spine and the usual age toning.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Like new hardcover still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. DEFINITIVE: INDISPENSABLE: BOLD: HILARIOUS: BIZARRE: POIGNANT: BLISTERING: NEW: First Edition hardcover(2006) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ double-rule gilt borders & LOA logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW rayon-weave Brillianta green fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ green silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.08" x 1.22", 0.57 kg, 912 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.42", 0.67 kg * CONTENTS: The Great American Novel (1), My Life as a Man (379), The Professor of Desire (679); Chronology (873), Note on the Texts (884), Notes (885) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This 3rd volume of the definitive LOA edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents 3 markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America's indispensable novelists. In "The Great American Novel" (1973), a hilarious, bizarre, strangely poignant tall tale of American pieties & American lunacy, Roth lifts the lid on the suppressed history of the homeless Ruppert Mundys of baseball's despised & vanquished 3rd major league, turning the national pastime into unfettered picaresque farce. The cast of improbable characters includes: Gil Gamesh, the pitcher who actually tried to kill the umpire; John Baal, the ex-con first baseman, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House", who never hit a home run sober; & the House Un-American Activities Committee. "My Life as a Man" (1974) is Roth's most blistering novel, the savage, sometimes lurid account of the all-out battle waged between the young writer Peter Tarnopol & the wife who is his nemesis, his demon, & his muse. This is the treacherous world of Strindberg nearly a century later: the story of a fierce marital tragedy of obsession & blindness & desperate need. The volume closes with "The Professor of Desire" (1977), which charts the 2nd sexual metamorphosis of David Kepesh, protagonist of "The Breast". Roth follows Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence & feeling, into a vast wilderness of erotic possibility. "The Professor of Desire" is the troublingly affecting novel about the dilemmas of desire that prompted Milan Kundera to proclaim Roth "a great historian of modern eroticism." * ABOUT THE EDITOR: ROSS MILLER is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. His criticism has appeared in scholarly journals, The WSJ, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "American Apocalypse: The Great Fire & the Myth of Chicago" & "Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City". * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by HOFFMAN, .lawrence dj design (illustrator). first edition". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(S12.50) DUST JACKET.Clean, solid, bright hardcovers, with nice DJ showing 2" taped edge tear.OW nice DJ. Dark green endpapers. ; GOLD TITLES IN BLue cloth hard covers . WHITE & BLUE & YELLOW TITLES ON BRIGHT BLACK GLOSSY DUST JACKET. ; 763pg pages; short biog piece by J.B. 50 other articles by various authors in 7 sections. / Holocaust & after; EAST & WEST; Light of History; GROUPS; THOUGHT I CRISIS; WRITING; AMERICAN PREDICAMENT;

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. A Fine copy with a green cloth binding and fine slipcase. Still in the original unopened shrink wrap with the publisher's notes. Subscribers edition with no dust jacket as issued.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Binding & dj clean & crisp still in publishers shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Farrar Straus & Giroux (November 1, 1984).

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. First Edition. Stated First Library of American Printing. Slipcase edition with notes page. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; gentle bump to one corner, else boards and text also very good. Slipcase in VG condition, very minor shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in white wrappers with vignettes in red & black in a pictorial dust wrapper. The wraps are lightly bumped. There is some minor soiling to the top edge of the dust jacket and the top corner of its front panel is creased. 288 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Very good. The first issue of an annual anthology of new writing publishing stories, poems and essays and illustrated with photographs and drawings. Among the contents of this issue are stories by Patricia Highsmith and Tobias Wolff; essays by Joseph Brodsky, Christopher Hitchens, Philip Roth and David Rieff; and poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Andrew Motion. There is also an extract from "Lanark", an illustrated filmscript by Alasdair Gray.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Very Good with moderate wear to covers and no marks to text. Light creasing to front cover, some toning to spine. Lit Mags. ; Fall 1959, Volume 1, Number 1; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. First Edition. Stated First Library of American Printing. Slipcase edition with notes page. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Slipcase in VG condition, very minor shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

157p., softbound journal in 9x6 inch stylized wraps, bit of shelfwear, else in very good condition.

Magazine. Pp.461-647, softbound journal in 9x6 inch stylized wraps, find a tiny inked squiggle (and a touch of dust) on front cover, an else near-new copy: sound, else clean and unmarked. Interviewee this issue is William Styron. Find Roth on Nixon, unimpressed reviews of Norman Mailer's Prisoner of Sex and the pusilanimously delayed publication of Plath's Bell Jar. Sartre's "Class Consciousness in Flaubert" (part II, continued from Spring 1971) is probably the most formidable essay here; Sartre had no alimonies to pay (Mailer racked up six) and no suicidal tendencies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dust wrapper with a couple of tiny closed tears, but no chipping. Not price clipped. No remainder marks. Short stories by Philip Roth, Herbert Gold, James Purdy, Elizabeth Spencer, Glendon Swarthout, etc. 284 pages. Stated first edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Printing. A lightly creased spine with light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by : Joyce Carol Oates, Ethel Wilson,Philip Roth, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Dylan Thomas, George Elliott, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Babel, John Updike, Malcolm Lowry, katherine Anne Porter, Sinclair Ross, William Faulkner, Anton Chekhov, Bruce Jay Friedman, Morley Callaghan, Anne Hebert, James Thurber, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Heinrich Boll, Frank O'Connor, Par Lagervist,Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Graham Greene, Franz Kafka, Dave Godfrey,Isaac B.Singer, Flannery O'Connor.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 700 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: As New. First Paperback Edition. Publisher: Penguin Books, New York, 1976. FINE- in illustrated wraps, as issued. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise as new. First US. Softcover Edition, First Printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light rubbing on the corners; no interior markings. There are far too many stories here to list them all but some of the highlights are: Playboy Interview with Ed Asner; Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth; How to Outgun the IRS by Paul Strassels; I Hate Golf's Guts by Jay Cronley; Playboy Music - John Lennon's Final Words About Beatles' Music; Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder; and much, much more. Size: 4to. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 11.03x8.67x9.65 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 291 pages. Published in 1992. The author's collection of interviews. Published in a small and limited print run of 500 copies by a University Press as part of the now-legendary "Literary Conversations" Series. This First Hardcover Edition was sold to public libraries only and was never reissued. Should not be confused with the regular trade Softcover Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in the most collectible format possible, "Conversations With Philip Roth". A representative selection of interviews conducted by various writers, journalists, and scholars with the author. Gives a rich, complex, and lively overview of both the life and mind of one of America's most important writers. Presented in chronological order, the interviews cumulatively amount to an absorbing account of one of the greatest literary journeys of the 20th century, which is the explicit intention of the publisher with each writer who is included in the Series. "Writing in a room by myself is practically my whole life" (Philip Roth). Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are former library copies, or the Softcover Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Winner of every major literary award: The National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, all of which he won twice. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for "American Pastoral". Recipient of the National Medal For The Arts in 1998. Recipient of the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0878055576. no.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 645 pages. Published in 2007. Volume Four of The Library of America's definitive Collected Works of Philip Roth. The First Slipcased Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a Slipcased Edition for distribution to libraries and LOA subscribers only. None of the copies was sold to the public. The Slipcased Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. The Slipcased Edition is now rare. Printed to the highest standards on acid-free paper, utilizing sewn binding, closely woven rayon cloth boards, satin bound-in ribbon marker, and a page layout that is both readable and elegant, each volume is guaranteed to last for several generations of readers and collectors (despite frequent and regular use, the estimated life span of Library of America Editions is 1000 years; un-used, they will last forever). Without DJ, as issued. Presents Volume Four of The Collected Works of Philip Roth: "The Ghost Writer", "Zuckerman Unbound", "The Anatomy Lesson", and "The Prague Orgy". The trilogy and epilogue that constitute Roth's wholly original investigation into the unforeseen consequences of art, mainly in libertarian America, and then, by contrast, in Soviet-suppressed Eastern Europe. The LOA volume marks the inclusion and very first publication of his adaptation of "The Prague Orgy" for American television, which features characters and scenes that are not found in the novella. Nathan Zuckerman appears (as a wry writer/observer rather than omniscient genius/conscience) in three more major novels: "Exit Ghost" was published in the same month as the present volume, echoes the first novel, "The Ghost Writer", and is Zuckerman's eighth, and final, appearance in the Rothian universe. "One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture" (Cynthia Ozick). "Our foremost novelist since Faulkner" (Harold Bloom). Philip Roth was only the third writer to be so honored by The Library of America while still alive. Published in chronological order, the entire oeuvre consists of ten volumes in all and will surely be regarded as one of the "high spots" in The Library of America Series. Roth famously announced in 2012 that he has permanently stopped writing. Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Library of America Slipcased Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: The First Slipcased Edition was distributed to libraries and LOA subscribers only. None of the copies was sold to the public. Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings yet command hundreds of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1598530119. no.