Philip Roth. First edition, second printing (stated). Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket with original price $8.95 on flap. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Beautiful red cloth with author's initials on cover and gold lettering in the spine. No writing or markings in this collectable, edition, 330 pp.
The first edition was published in June (1974) and this the second printing in that same month. This was Roth's ninth novel following The Great American Novel the prior year. Roth burst on the literary scene in 1959 with his first novel, Goodbye Columbus which won him a National Book Award.
