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Roth, Philip : ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1981

DJ with light wear to extremities and with one small closed tear; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 227 pages, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

First Trade Edition

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York City, NY, 1981

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 230 pages. The author's second "Nathan Zuckerman" novel. One of Philip Roth's finest achievements. Limited Slipcased Edition of 350 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by FSG: Regular-sized volume format. Red cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Philip Roth. Marbled endpapers. Matching black cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In publisher's transparent plastic DJ, as issued. Most copies were issued without the DJ. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "Zuckerman Unbound". The sequel to "The Ghost Writer". Two other works, "The Anatomy Lesson" and "The Prague Orgy: An Epilogue", complete the "Zuckerman" quartet-cycle. However, only "Zuckerman Unbound" and "The Anatomy Lesson" were issued as Limited Editions by FSG. In a lifetime of prodigious writing, there have been no more than ten Philip Roth Limited Editions in all, making each one of them eminently collectible. Surely, Roth deserved more, and were it not for his fraught relationship with FSG, he would have gotten more. Instead, he had to settle for Franklin Mint editions, which are strictly speaking, NOT Limited Editions because the limitation is never stated. "Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent Sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ('Hey, you do all that stuff in that book? '), but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and sidewalk literary critics. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if 'target' may be more than a figure of speech" (Publisher's blurb). "Masterful, sure in every touch, as clear and economical of line as a crystal vase" (The New York Times). 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 copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Philip Roth. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: This comes in the publisher's protective transparent DJ. Most copies were issued without the DJ. 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).

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Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1981.

8vo., 225 pp., Very Good, Green Cloth, Dust Jacket with sun-fading, stains, rubbing, & edge wear; ink marks and minor stains on edge of text block; shelf wear. Mylar Jacket. First Printing.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1981.

8vo., 225 pp., Very Good, Green Cloth, Dust Jacket with sun-fading, warping at edges of jacket, rubbing, & edge wear; shelf wear. First Printing.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1981.

8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Soft Cover, with edge wear, staining, & rubbing on covers; front cover starting to come loose, small tear near head of spine; text block warped; spine slanted; shelf wear. Advance Uncorrected Proof. First Printing.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1981.

8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Soft Cover, with edge wear, staining, & rubbing on covers; text block warped; spine slanted; shelf wear. Advance Uncorrected Proof. First Printing. Mylar Jacket.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Soft Cover, with some edge wear & rubbing on covers; text block warped; spine slanted; shelf wear. Advance Uncorrected Proof. First Printing. Mylar Jacket.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.

8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Green Cloth, Dust Jacket with small tear (on tail of spine), edge wear & rubbing; shelf wear. First Printing.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.

8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Green Cloth, Dust Jacket with sun-fading, edge wear & rubbing; half title and subsequent page well creased open, as is corresponding page at conclusion of the book; shelf wear. First Printing.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.

8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Green Cloth, Dust Jacket with small tears, sun-fading, edge wear & rubbing; shelf wear. Mylar Jacket. First Printing.

Roth, Philip : Zuckerman Unbound

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.

8vo. 225 pp. Very Good, Green Cloth, Dust Jacket with small tears, sun-fading, edge wear & rubbing; jacket clipped; shelf wear. First Printing.

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