Exit Ghost Signed Presentation Copy by Philip Roth (3 results)
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Seller: Roebling Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.Roebling Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Advanced Reading Copy. Presentation Copy. "This advance reading copy was printed and bound especially for booksellers and friends of Houghton Mifflin." Very Good Book/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. "This presentation edition of 'Exit Ghost', signed by the author, is limited to 750 cop…ies." Signed by the author in ink directly to the limitation page. Includes article cut from newspaper dated October 7, 2007. Black full paper binding with gilt stamped initials on front, gilt stamped title on spine, and red endpapers. Covers show edgewear, rubbing, scuffing and shelfwear but are otherwise clean. Front and back covers show white scuff marks to bottom edges. Front cover shows 2" vertical indentation to fore edge. Back cover shows white scuff mark to top edge. Upper corner of back cover lightly bumped. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked. Newspaper article shows age tanning, creases, smudges, and tears. 292 pages. 5-5/8 X 8-1/4. Signed.
Language: English
Published by New York City, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2007, 2007
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Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.ModernRare
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 292 pages. Published in 2007. The author's eighth and final "Zuckerman" novel. One of Philip Roth's finest achievements. Limited Edition of 750 copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Pub…lished in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. It comes with a brief Introduction by Philip Roth that does NOT appear in any other edition. Without DJ, as issued. The Limited Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. It is now scarce. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "Exit Ghost". The final "Zuckerman" novel. The title is aptly allusive, as the very first novel featuring Nathan Zuckerman is "The Ghost Writer". After more than a decade in rural New England, Nathan Zuckerman, now 71 years old, returns to New York City, to consult his doctor about the prostate condition that has left him incontinent and impotent (the first two major blows in the Rothian universe, dire intimations of mortality, the third and final blow being death). "Roth being Roth, the plot is much more complicated than it at first appears. Within a few days of arriving in New York, Zuckerman accidentally encounters Amy Bellette, the woman who was once the muse/wife of his beloved idol, writer S. I. Lonoff. He also meets a young novelist, and promptly begins fantasizing about the writer's young and beautiful wife. There's also a sub-plot about a would-be Lonoff biographer, who enrages Zuckerman with his brashness and ambition, two qualities a faithful Roth reader cannot help ascribing to the young, sycophantic Zuckerman himself. Roth's voice is wise, rueful, and full of wit" (Publishers Weekly). The publication of "Exit Ghost" coincides with the release of the Zuckerman Trilogy itself ("The Ghost Writer", "Zuckerman Unbound", and "The Anatomy Lesson") as Volume Four of The Library of America Series, the only writer so honored while he was still alive. 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 is a copy of the Limited Edition/Advance "Presentation Edition" of 750 copies. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the Front Limitation Page by Philip Roth. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such pre-signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed 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 collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0618915478. Signed by Author.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2007
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Seller: Roebling Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.Roebling Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 65.50
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Advanced Reading Copy. Presentation Copy. "This advance reading copy was printed and bound especially for booksellers and friends of Houghton Mifflin." Very Good Book/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. "This presentation edition of 'Exit Ghost', signed by the author, is limited to 750 cop…ies." Signed by the author in ink directly to the limitation page. Includes article cut from newspaper dated October 7, 2007. Black full paper binding with gilt stamped initials on front, gilt stamped title on spine, and red endpapers. Covers show edgewear, rubbing, scuffing and shelfwear but are otherwise clean. Front and back covers show white scuff marks to bottom edges. Front cover shows 2" vertical indentation to fore edge. Back cover shows white scuff mark to top edge. Upper corner of back cover lightly bumped. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked. Newspaper article shows age tanning, creases, smudges, and tears. 292 pages. 5-5/8 X 8-1/4. Signed.
