Roth, Philip (Author) & Miller, Ross (Editor)
Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater: Novels 1993-1995

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Library Of America, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 850 pages. Volume Six of The Library of America's definitive Collected Works of Philip Roth. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. 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). Presents Volume Six of The Collected Works of Philip Roth: "Operation Shylock" and "Sabbath's Theater". Two great novels that heralded the beginning of a more than decade-long creative explosion, remarkable in an older writer and hailed by critics as unparalleled in American literary history. "In the diabolically imaginative 'Operation Shylock' (1993), a character named Philip Roth encounters a look-alike who claims Roth's identity and who tours Israel promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews, proselytizing the 'real' Roth is intent on stopping, even if it means impersonating his impersonator. 'This splendidly wicked book' is how the critic Frank Kermode described 'Sabbath's Theater' (1995), a comic masterpiece of epic proportions whose gargantuan hero, Mickey Sabbath, grieving the loss of his unsurpassable mistress, embarks on a turbulent journey into his past besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most" (Publisher's blurb). "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 copy of Volume Six is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. These titles are great novels. This is one of few such signed copies of the First "Library of America" Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, have the bookstore's stamp, or are subsequent printings yet command hundreds of dollars. 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 159853078X.

Stock number: 17738. ISBN: 159853078X

$US 250.00

Roth, Philip (Author); Lethem, Jonathan; O'Brien, Edna; Pierpont, Claudia Roth & Finkielkraut, Alain
Philip Roth At 80: A Celebration: The Library Of America Commemorative Keepsake

Imprint: New York City, NY, Library Of America, 2014
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 80 pages. Commemorative Keepsake. The first and only edition. None of the copies was commercially sold to the public. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by LOA: Regular-sized volume format. Green hard boards with gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Jonathan Lethem, Hermione Lee, Alain Finkielkraut, Claudia Roth Pierpont, and Edna O'Brien. Response by Philip Roth. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Philip Roth At 80: A Celebration". Originally delivered in person on March 19, 2013 at the Newark Museum New Jersey. Newark is, of course, Roth's birthplace and literary landscape. The speeches appear in their final form, as all of the contributing writers made revisions to their oral remarks. Roth's response, "The Ruthless Intimacy of Fiction", appears as the concluding piece. In 2012, the greatest American writer of our time unexpectedly announced that he was retiring, after completing "Nemesis" (2010), the final volume of his "Nemeses" Quartet. He also cooperated with two major projects: "Roth Unmasked", the award-winning PBS documentary, and "Roth Unbound", Claudia Roth Pierpont's critical biography. In addition to Harold Bloom's idiosyncratic and influential commentary on Roth's novels, the documentary and biography are unsurpassed in the history of modern American literature as critique and celebration at the same time. Roth's achievement was to make the anguished, unstoppable, and torrential Jewish voice THE voice of modern American literature. "The books aren't Jewish because they have Jews in them. They're Jewish in the way they're sprung both from harangue AND from defense against harangue" (Jonathan Lethem). An unabashed patriot who crossed swords with fellow Jewish-Americans he deemed insufficiently patriotic, Roth insisted that despite nationalist and Fascist impulses and forces - the Trumpian present has deep historical precedents; Roth presciently noted in "The Plot Against America" that "all the assurances are provisional, even here in a two-hundred-year-old democracy" - , America gave unrepayable refuge to the Jews and so many other peoples. 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 very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Roth did NOT sign most copies. 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 1598534130.

Stock number: 22060. ISBN: 1598534130

$US 200.00

Roth, Philip
The Anatomy Lesson

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 295 pages. The author's third "Nathan Zuckerman" novel. One of the greatest American novels of the 20th century. Limited Slipcased Edition of 300 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. Black cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Philip Roth. Marbled endpapers. Matching red cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "The Anatomy Lesson". The sequel to "Zuckerman Unbound". Two other works, "The Ghost Writer", the first novel, and "The Prague Orgy: An Epilogue", the concluding novella, 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. Middle-aged, wracked by a debilitating pain in his neck that keeps him from writing, Zuckerman, in an epiphany of ambition, returns to the University of Chicago to pursue a degree in medicine (hence the title). "For the last half-century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and re-defined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assaults on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time" (Ross Miller). 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 great book. 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. 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).

Stock number: 21649.

$US 300.00

Roth, Philip
The Dying Animal

Imprint: Boston, MA, Houghton And Mifflin, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 156 pages. The author's twenty-third novel. One of Philip Roth's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "The Dying Animal". Inaugurates his extended and productive departure from the full-fledged novel to the novella ("short novel" actually describes Roth's achievement more accurately). The phase culminates in his brilliant "Nemeses" Quartet, which also completes Philip Roth's literary journey. Revisits David Kepesh, now an old man, who first appeared in "The Breast" (1972) and subsequently in "The Professor of Desire" (1977). Describes with a delicate balance of pathos and irony the elegiac encounter between erotic desire and old age: "David Kepesh is an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college as well as an articulate propagandist of the Sexual Revolution. For years, he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. When he becomes involved with Consuela Castillo, the humblingly beautiful daughter of Cuban exiles, Kepesh finds himself dragged helplessly, bitterly, furiously into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality" (Publisher's blurb). The basis of the very fine film adaptation, "Elegy", by Isabel Coixet, with career-defining performances by Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. 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 very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the title page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are (even though they are not indicated as such). This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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 0618135871.

Stock number: 17555. ISBN: 0618135871

$US 200.00

Roth, Philip
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 185 pages. The author's debut memoir. Now considered a late-modern classic. Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by FSG: Regular-sized volume format. Orange cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Philip Roth. Matching cream cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography". His first memoir, about himself, followed and completed by "Patrimony: A True Story" (1991), about his father. 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. "Reflections that stand on their own as perspicacious insights by a Master of fiction on one writer's beginnings, quest for freedom, and creative muses. Uninhibited, introspective, self-confrontational" (Publishers Weekly). "For the last half-century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and re-defined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assaults on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time" (Ross Miller). 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. 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 0374152128.

Stock number: 21672. ISBN: 0374152128

$US 300.00

Roth, Philip
The Humbling

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton And Mifflin, 2009
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 145 pages. The author's twenty-sixth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "The Humbling". The third in Philip Roth's "Nemeses" cycle of short novels, which includes "Everyman" (2006), "Indignation" (2008), and "Nemesis" (2010). A meditation on (and confrontation of) life-as-performance, that is, as humbling performance. A legendary actor feels his once-formidable powers suddenly deserting him and goes through a late-life, epic crisis. Roth writes what amounts to a spare and unsparing examination of the self. Throughout his entire oeuvre and especially so in his Late Period, Philip Roth's narratives on the vitality/mortality theme are "told with inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity; all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances - talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation - are stripped off" (Publisher's blurb). In this sense, he (and the Rothian universe) reminds us, dare one say it, of both Shakespeare and Ingmar Bergman. 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 contemporary classic. 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, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce 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 0547239696.

Stock number: 17614. ISBN: 0547239696

$US 20.00

Roth, Philip
The Plot Against America

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 391 pages. The author's twenty-second novel. One of the greatest novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America". His counter-factual historical novel. Explores a brilliantly imagined scenario of mass fear, and then takes it to its logical conclusion. Charles A. Lindbergh defeats FDR for the Presidency in 1940. Lindbergh captured the country's imagination twice: Through his solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 and the tragic kidnapping and murder of his son. He was the prototypical American hero: Brave, handsome, a "role model". He was also an isolationist, a Nazi sympathizer, and a Fascist. It is these latter attributes that inform the novel. "Roth interweaves historical names such as Walter Winchell, who tries to run against Lindbergh. The twist at the end is more than surprising, it is positively ingenious. Roth has written a magnificent novel, arguably his best work in a long time. It is tempting to equate his scenario with current events, but resist, resist. Of course it is a cautionary tale, but beyond that, it is a contribution to American letters by a man working at the top of his powers" (Valerie Ryan). In his maturity and after a lifetime of brilliant and prolific writing, Roth has pulled off the unthinkable: Another masterpiece. 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 very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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 0618509283.

Stock number: 11670. ISBN: 0618509283

$US 300.00

Roth, Philip (Author) & Miller, Ross (Editor)
When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, The Breast (novels 1967-1972)

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Library Of America, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 645 pages. Volume Two 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 Two of The Collected Works of Philip Roth: "When She Was Good", "Portnoy's Complaint", "Our Gang", and "The Breast". Four works which show the range and originality of Philip Roth's fictional art. "The range and inventiveness of Roth's fiction is dazzlingly displayed: The somber and penetrating realism of 'When She Was Good' (1967); the daring verbal wit of his comic masterpiece 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1969), which made Roth a reluctant literary celebrity; the unrestrained political satire of 'Our Gang' (1971), his Swiftian takedown of the Nixon administration; and the fantasy of 'The Breast' (1972), featuring the debut of Roth protagonist David Kepesh as he endures a metamorphosis worthy of Kafka or Gogol" (Publisher's blurb). "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 copy of Volume Two is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First "Library of America" Slipcased Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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, have the bookstore's stamp, or are subsequent printings yet command hundreds of dollars. 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 1931082804.

Stock number: 18576. ISBN: 1931082804

$US 300.00

Roth, Philip (Author) & Miller, Ross (Editor)
Zuckerman Bound: The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Library Of America, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 645 pages. 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, a pristine beauty. 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.

Stock number: 21726. ISBN: 1598530119

$US 100.00

Roy, Arundhati
War Talk

Imprint: Cambridge, MA, South End Press, 2003
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 142 pages. Retrospective collection of essays on subject. One of the most important books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Arundhati Roy's "War Talk". Her controversial and compelling response to both the event and the subsequent rhetoric we now call 9/11. Her six essays on the implications of this tragedy, particularly that it would be used to justify imperial wars in the 21st century, were made long before President Bush and most political commentators uttered the word "Iraq". "Combines brilliant reportage with a passionate, no-holds-barred commentary. I salute both her courage and her skill" (Salman Rushdie). "Writers have proved that when they turn their backs on power and start and feel the pulse and pain of society, they become powerful. This is the power beyond power that Arundhati Roy brings forth" (Vandana Shiva). A beautiful, deceptively fragile-looking presence, she has turned herself into one of the world's most eloquent spokeswomen for the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the powerless. A close friend of fellow Indian writer Vikram Seth, Roy has become the effective polemicist-essayist counterpart of novelist Seth. She once said that she had probably just one novel in her, and that she had already written it ("The God of Small Things", published in 1997). She also became a literary sensation because of it, which stalled rather than facilitated her second novel, "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", not published until twenty years later, in 2017. An absolute "must-have" title for Arundhati Roy collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Arundhati Roy. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Unlike her recent signature, this is vintage, signed in full instead of abbreviated. Roy was the star presenter of The Asia Society's "Chindia Dialogues" [China-India Dialogues] , during which event her signature was obtained. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 for "The God of Small Things". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ARUNDHATI ROY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0896087239.

Stock number: 16966. ISBN: 0896087239

$US 100.00

Rozycki, Tomasz (Poet); Zagajewski, Adam (Contributor) & Rosenthal, Mira (translator)
The Forgotten Keys: Selected Poetry Of Tomasz Rozycki

Imprint: Brookline, MA, Zephyr Press, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 112 pages. The poet's first collection to be translated into English. Now considered one of the finest living Polish poets, the book represents his long-overdue introduction to English-language readers. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Tomasz Rozycki's "The Forgotten Keys" in a felicitous English translation. His debut collection of poems in English. The originals are reproduced en face. Selected by the poet and translator from his five collections: "Vaterland" (1997), "Anima" (1999), "Country Cottage" (2001), "World and Anti-World" (2003), and "The Colonies" (2006). They appear with a brilliant Introductory Essay by Adam Zagajewski, the greatest Polish poet of our time. "Introduces readers to a contemporary Polish poet who expands on the historicism of Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Rozycki explores both personal and collective memory in hypnotic and fiercely exacting poems" (Publisher's blurb). "I never sentenced anyone/ without reason, except for public enemies: / deserters, poets, profiteers, traitors" (Tomasz Rozycki). An absolute "must-have" title for Tomasz Rozycki collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black pen on the title page by the author: "Tomasz Rozycki NYC, 28.03.2011". This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and dated copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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. One of the finest poets of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER THOMASZ ROZYCKI, CZESLAW MILOSZ, WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, AND ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0939010941.

Stock number: 16404. ISBN: 0939010941

$US 30.00

Ruetz, Michael
Cosmos: Elements In Harmony 1972-1997

Imprint: Göttingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 178 pages. Retrospective collection of aerial and landscape photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of the last decade of the 20th century. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Michael Ruetz and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format in oblong shape. Cloth boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Michael Ruetz. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Michael Ruetz's "Cosmos: Elements In Harmony 1972-1997". A dazzling collection: Some of the most stunning landscape photographs ever taken. If the title is not explicit enough, this book is the photographer's celebration of the diverse world we live in and sometimes fail to grasp in its splendid, sometimes terrifying beauty. Contains photographs presented in the highest-quality reproduction: A shot of a romantic castle, a shore that looks like a screen shot of an H. F. Lovecraft novel, a medieval fortress beside a placid lake, and an entire section called "Heaven's Hieroglyphics", which is unsurpassed in the way it captures lightning storms. "In Michael Ruetz's moody, atmospheric color photographs, the mysterious is divulged. The paradoxical, what once seemed invisible, is revealed in these photographs, which prove Oscar Wilde's adage that the 'mystery is the visible, not the invisible' ". An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Ruetz collectors. This title is now collectible. 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, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3882434813.

Stock number: 4342. ISBN: 3882434813

$US 50.00

Ruscha, Ed (Artist); Ruscha, Edward (Full Name)
Leave Any Information At The Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages

Imprint: Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, 2002
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 460 pages. Retrospective collection of the artist's spoken and written word, with a coda of original art. One of the most valuable art books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Ed Ruscha's "Leave Any Information At The Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages". The eloquent and witty artist in his own words, complemented with his eloquent and witty art. "Among the most innovative artists of the last fifty years, he is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language in the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings, prints, films, photographs, and Artist Books. He is often associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced, eye. Indeed, his work is characterized by the tensions between High and Low, solemn and irreverent, serious and non-sensical, and draws on popular culture as well as Western art traditions" (Publisher's blurb). Meticulously edited by Alexandra Schwartz, the book is in three parts, arranged chronologically: Part One contains statements, letters, and other writings; Part Two, fifty interviews, which have never before been published or translated into English; and Part Three, sketchbook pages, word groupings, and other Notes that chart how Ruscha develops ideas and solves artistic problems. Part Three is therefore art-as-process, and appears in this volume for the very first time. All three parts cohere, and are characterized by the artist's slippery genius. "Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow! ' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh? ' " (Ed Ruscha). An absolute "must-have" title for Ed Ruscha collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Ed Ruscha. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of Gagosian Gallery's Souvenir Card. This title is a great art book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy (with Gallery Souvenir) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Ed Ruscha signed copies of this book through his New York gallery only. A rare signed copy thus. 80 plates. One of the greatest artists of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ED RUSCHA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0262182203.

Stock number: 21269. ISBN: 0262182203

$US 400.00

Rusesabagina, Paul (Author/Witness) & Zoellner, Tom (Co-Author)
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 207 pages. The author's autobiography. One of the greatest biographical accounts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Paul Rusesabagina's "An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography". An indispensable account for our (and all) time: Bearing witness to The African Holocaust. As his title suggests, Paul Rusesabagina was just an ordinary man (just as Oscar Schindler was) who faced a horrific situation with extraordinary courage. "For hotel manager Rusesabagina, words are the most powerful weapon for good or evil, as was the case in the Spring of 1994 in Rwanda. Within 100 days, 800, 000 people were slaughtered. Rusesabagina, the inspiration for the film, 'Hotel Rwanda', used his facility with words and persuasion to save 1, 268 of his fellow countrymen, turning the Belgian luxury hotel under his charge into a sanctuary from madness. Through negotiation, favor, flattery, and deception, Rusesabagina managed to keep his 'guests' alive despite the homicidal gangs just beyond the fence and the world's failure to act" (Publisher's blurb). As the killings were going on, President Clinton adamantly refused to call the slaughter "genocide" because of the moral responsibility the word entailed. By the time the United States and the Rest of the World intervened, more than one million dead Rwandans were rotting in the streets, a tragedy that Clinton himself described in his memoir, "My Life", as one of the most shameful chapters of the worst century in human history. At least he admits it happened during his watch. "We all knew we would die, no question. The only question was, how? Would they chop us to pieces? With their machetes, they would cut your left hand off. Then they would disappear and reappear a few hours later to cut off your right hand. A little later, they would return for your left leg. They came and went until you died. They wanted to make you suffer as long as possible. There was only one other alternative: You could pay soldiers so they would just shoot you, execution-style" (Paul Rusesabagina). An eloquently written story that tells us of the darkest side of humanity as plainly as possible, Nelson Mandela has urged all human beings, not just Africans, to read it and never forget. An absolute "must-have" title for Paul Rusesabagina collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Paul Rusesabagina. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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. Paul Rusesabagina received The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the highest award the United States Government accords individual achievers and brave men and women. A fine copy. . ISBN 0670037524.

Stock number: 10227. ISBN: 0670037524

$US 30.00

Rushdie, Salman
Fury: A Novel

Imprint: New York City, NY, Random House, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 259 pages. The author's eighth novel. One of Salman Rushdie's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Salman Rushdie's "Fury". His so-called "American" novel, set mostly in Manhattan, where he is now based. With numerous allusions to living celebrities, places, and events, it is perhaps his most autobiographical work. The novel was widely praised by both critics and readers for his now-legendary literary virtuosity. This is ultimately a novel about the fragility of the human condition. If Rushdie has one theme overriding his keen interest in the encounter between East and West, it would be this profound sense of our vulnerability. This title has become one of Rushdie's most popular successes. It is unquestionably, one of his most accessible books, in stark contrast to the challenges, both rewarding and frustrating, of "The Satanic Verses", the novel that made him an international cause celebre. An absolute "must-have" title for Salman Rushdie collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Salman Rushdie. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children", which was also selected as "The Booker of Bookers" in 1993, the best of all previous winners. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALMAN RUSHDIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 067946333X.

Stock number: 5398. ISBN: 067946333X

$US 40.00

Rushdie, Salman
Luka And The Fire Of Life: A Novel

Imprint: New York City, NY, Random House, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 218 pages. The author's eleventh novel. The companion volume to "Haroun and The Sea of Stories", the very first book the author published when he was still in deep hiding as a result of the fatwa issued against him by the late, unlamented Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Salman Rushdie's "Luka And The Fire of Life". His dazzling companion-novel to "Haroun and The Sea of Stories". The latter was "born at a time of crisis in its author's life, and the fictional Haroun's quest to rescue his father's lost storytelling skills in a world in which stories themselves are being poisoned was a fable that responded to that crisis. 'Luka and The Fire of Life' is a response to a different, but equally great, danger: That an older father may not live to see his son grow up. In the earlier book, it was storytelling that was being threatened; in the new one, it is the storyteller who is at risk. The book grows out of the reality of my own life and my relationship with a very particular child. Luka is my son Milan's middle name just as Haroun is Zafar's. As well as the central theme of life and death, Luka explores things I have thought about all my life: The relationships between the world of imagination and the real world, between authoritarianism and liberty, between what is true and what is phony, and between ourselves and the gods that we create. It has been my aim to write a story that demolishes the boundary between 'adult' and 'children's' literature" (Salman Rushdie). An absolute "must-have" title for Salman Rushdie collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Salman Rushdie. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children", which was also selected as "The Booker of Bookers" in 1993, the best of all previous winners. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALMAN RUSHDIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0679463364.

Stock number: 16153. ISBN: 0679463364

$US 50.00

Rushdie, Salman
The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Imprint: London, England, Jonathan Cape, 1999
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 575 pages. The author's seventh novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Salman Rushdie's "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". An epic romance, written in the author's celebrated and dazzlingly pyrotechnical, virtuoso style. The novel stretches across whole lives and even beyond death. A remaking of the myth of Orpheus and an exploration of the extremities of comedy, culture, and death, Rushdie re-imagines Orpheus, the Muse of Music, as a rock star. The book is his homage to rock n' roll, a major influence on his writing. "A gripping story that encapsulates the history, dreams, and passions of the last half century as no other novel has done. Rushdie tells the story of Vina Apsara, a pop star, and Ormus Cama, a songwriter and musician, who captivate and change the world through their music and their romance. Beginning in Bombay in the Fifties, moving to London in the Sixties, and New York for the last quarter century, the novel pulsates with a half-century of music and celebrates the power of rock 'n roll" (Publisher's blurb). The novel is now seen as a precursor of the "global novel", for lack of a better term, the new paradigm of the 21st-century, replacing the now quaintly old-fashioned "Great American Novel". The sprawling, all-encompassing, and ambitious novel which captures reality in all of its elusive richness and complexity has been the obsession not just of American literature but of all national literary cultures. Meanwhile, the world has changed, radically, dramatically, and unrecognizably, leaving personal literary ambitions in the dust. For better or for worse, the world is more global than it has ever been, whether one lives in (and writes about) America, Australia, Singapore or Madagascar. "This is Rushdie at his absolute, almost insolently global best. Completely seductive" (Toni Morrison). An absolute "must-have" title for Salman Rushdie collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Salman Rushdie. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children", which was also selected as "The Booker of Bookers" in 1993, the best of all previous winners. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALMAN RUSHDIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0224044192.

Stock number: 14201. ISBN: 0224044192

$US 80.00

Rushdie, Salman
The Satanic Verses

Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 547 pages. The author's fourth novel. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run, and on an occasional basis, as a hardcover original only. For the longest time, signed copies of the book were elusive (so bookplates sufficed) because Rushdie had to cancel his tour after the fatwa was issued. The book itself was eventually withdrawn by the publisher for an indefinite and prolonged period of time. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses". A sublime work of irony that remains his most controversial achievement thus far. Following mass hysteria that led to book-burning demonstrations by Muslims in Great Britain, India, and the rest of the Islamic world (for alleged blasphemy), Rushdie was sentenced to death by an edict ("fatwa") issued by the late, unlamented Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He was forced to go into deep hiding under British secret-service protection. Although he has now lived a largely peaceful life in NYC for some time, Rushdie himself remains vigilant, and has said that he will have to watch his back for the rest of his life. Furor aside, his novel is a poetic meditation on Good versus Evil, written in the virtuoso, pyrotechnical narrative style that is now identified with him. Despite its linguistic complexity, the story itself is actually quite simple: Two Indians, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, plummet from the sky after their jetliner explodes. Then they go through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations, offering up to the reader a feast of Rushdie's exuberant flights of imagination and invention. One of our very few "poetic tales" that transcend the normative tradition (to borrow Harold Bloom's memorable phrase), "The Satanic Verses" has endured and will become canonical. An absolute "must-have" title for Salman Rushdie collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Salman Rushdie. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as many copies available online are. It comes with a pristine copy of the Souvenir Program (which features a lovely, full-page excerpt from Rushdie's recent book) of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. It is, quite simply, one of the single most beautiful signed copies we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings yet command as much as $12000. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1981, for "Midnight's Children", which was also selected as "The Booker of Bookers" in 1993, the best of all previous winners. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALMAN RUSHDIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670825379.

Stock number: 22413. ISBN: 0670825379

$US 150.00

Russell, Karen
Swamplandia!

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 325 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The DJ design is dazzling, one of the very best DJ designs ever in the history of American publishing. Featuring original art by Luther Daniels Bradley (from 1899), it depicts in period detail a Florida swamp, a terrified, outlandish-looking man in a black coat, a calm little girl perched on his shoulders, and the wide-open jaws of the terrifying alligator. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!". Her brilliant first novel. The title, complete with exclamation point, refers to the eponymous tourist attraction that the three child-narrators inherit from their mother and try as best as they could to salvage. "Ravishing, elegiac, funny, and brilliantly inquisitive, Russell's archetypical swamp saga tells a mystical yet rooted tale of three innocents who come of age through trials of water, fire, and air" (Booklist). "A masterpiece" (Jim Shepard). Hailed as such by many other writers as diverse as Stephen King, Emma Donoghue, and Carl Hiassen. An absolute "must-have" title for Karen Russell collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (right after she won the MacArthur Genius Grant) in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "Karen Russell 2.19.13 NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which her signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed, placed, and dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online command as much as $125. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Selected as one of the "20 Writers Under 40" of the decade by The New Yorker Magazine. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2013 on the basis of just two published books. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KAREN RUSSELL TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307263991.

Stock number: 20280. ISBN: 0307263991

$US 70.00

Russo, Richard
Empire Falls

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 483 pages. The author's fifth novel. One of the most important American novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Richard Russo's "Empire Falls". Widely regarded as his masterpiece. "A masterful storyteller with a mission: To chronicle with insight and compassion the day-to-day life of small-town America, alternating episodes of boisterous humor with moments of heart-wrenching pathos" (Houston Chronicle). "What makes Russo so admirable as a novelist is that his natural grace as a storyteller is matched by his compassion for his characters" (John Irving). Russo's title is ironic and telling: The decline of small-town America is a microcosm of the larger decline of the American Empire, a subject that is certainly even more relevant than ever. Russo wrote the brilliant screenplay for the fine film adaptation by Fred Schepisi, with Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, and the late Paul Newman in career-peak performances. An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Russo collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Richard Russo. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a pristine copy of the Printers Row "Lit Fest" Souvenir Program (which is beautifully produced) during which event his signature was obtained. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for "Empire Falls", famously besting a formidable and worthy challenger in Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". One of the greatest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RICHARD RUSSO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0679432477.

Stock number: 22414. ISBN: 0679432477

$US 70.00

Sabuda, Robert & Reinhart, Matthew
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks & Other Sea Monsters: The Deluxe Edition

Imprint: Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. The celebrated pop-up artists' second collaborative effort on subject. Deluxe Slipcased Edition of 300 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. A magnificent production by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart: Oversize-volume format. Sea-blue cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on the spine and pop-up hidden in front, as issued. The pop-up appears in the Deluxe Edition only. Pop-ups by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. Matching sea-blue cloth slipcase with satin ribbon marker bound-in. Encased in sturdy protective cardboard box. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its ultimate collectible format, Robert Sabuda's and Matthew Reinhart's "Sharks & Other Sea Monsters". Volume Two in what has become a highly successful, continuing Series on Prehistoric Animals (Volume One was the stunning "Dinosaurs"). An interpretation of Encyclopedia Prehistorica, with emphasis on sharks and other sea monsters. The fascination with sharks is as universal as the one with dinosaurs. Steven Spielberg's breakthrough film was "Jaws", and it launched the summer blockbuster. Sabuda and Reinhart are somewhat scared of sharks (whereas they were not scared of dinosaurs at all, being extinct), and they seem to be saying in these stupendous pop-ups, "Stay out of the water!". What they have pulled off is a Pop-up Museum, the first of its kind ever, and it is truly breathtaking. Thank you again, Bob and Matthew, for making these creatures come to life as no cinematic special effects can. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart collectors. This copy is one of the Deluxe Slipcased Edition of 300 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such in front. It is very boldly and beautifully numbered and signed in pencil on the front board's pop-up by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. The front board pop-up appears in the Deluxe Edition only. This title is a great pop-up book. This is one of few copies of the Deluxe Slipcased Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original outer boards, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Publisher's list price is $250, indicated as such on box label. Copies available online command an incredible $1200. No kidding. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 36 pop-ups. Two of the greatest American pop-up artists of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT SABUDA AND MATTHEW REINHART TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0763629367.

Stock number: 9765. ISBN: 0763629367

$US 250.00

Sadie, Stanley (Author & Editor); Langridge, Philip (Contributor) & Other Contributors
The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Opera

Imprint: New York City, NY, Billboard Books, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 320 pages. One-volume encyclopedia on subject. Published as part of the now-legendary Series on various musical forms, genres, and traditions by Billboard Books. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents "The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera". A glorious aria to the greatest musical form ever invented in history. "From 'Don Giovanni' to 'Wozzeck', Purcell to Glass, Goethe to Brecht, and Callas to Bartoli, this book offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the history of opera. Organized chronologically by era, it begins with the roots of opera in classical times and ends with the numerous changes in style and subject in the 20th century. General Editor Stanley Sadie draws on the expertise of a wide range of professional writers, educators, and musicians to place the rise of the operatic tradition in its social and cultural contexts. Unique to this encyclopedia are the six thematic strands developed throughout the book: Opera Houses, Stage and Scene, The Voice, Technique, Performances, and Popular Melody, which allow readers to read sequentially or to follow a single theme" (Publisher's blurb). Other than the late Stanley Sadie, there was surely no one else (except the retired Andrew Porter) who could have pulled this off with such grace, measure, and lucidity. Best-known and revered as the General Editor of the ultimate reference/guide to classical music, the 30-volume "Grove Dictionary of Music And Musicians" (2004), Sadie was also Music Critic for The Times of London and Editor of The Musical Times. An absolute "must-have" title for all lovers of opera and classical music. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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 copy thus. One of the finest guides on opera. A fine copy. . ISBN 0823077217.

Stock number: 13631. ISBN: 0823077217

$US 50.00

Said, Edward W. (Author) & Judt, Tony (Contributor)
From Oslo To Iraq And The Roadmap

Imprint: London, England, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 323 pages. Posthumous collection of essays. One of the most important books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward W. Said's "From Oslo To Iraq And The Road Map". The author's final words on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the widening Mideast Crisis. Most of the essays were written when Edward W. Said remained active towards the end of his life in the Palestinian Movement. "These searing essays refract the reality of terrible years through a mind with extraordinary understanding, compassion, insight, and deep knowledge. They are an invaluable contribution by a truly remarkable person, in his life and work" (Noam Chomsky). Chomsky is eminently quotable because if there is anyone even more controversial than Edward W. Said, the greatest Palestinian-American intellectual of the 20th century, it is probably Noam Chomsky, the greatest Jewish-American linguist and radical political commentator of our time. The book also comes with a Foreword by another intellectual giant, Tony Judt, the late great Jewish Anglo-American political and intellectual historian. An absolute "must-have" title for Edward W. Said collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. 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, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest literary and political writer/thinkers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD W. SAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0747573433.

Stock number: 14443. ISBN: 0747573433

$US 20.00

Salas, Rafael M.
Fifty-six Stones

Imprint: New York City, NY, Weatherhill, 1985
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 86 pages. The author's debut collection of haiku poems. The Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Rafael Salas' "Fifty-Six Stones". A brilliant collection. The late Filipino Undersecretary of the United Nations was a world expert on population and development, having written six books on the subject. He was also a close associate of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, with whom he had an early "falling-out", resulting in his involuntary exile from the Philippines for the rest of his life. His literary output is significant because it shows yet another side of his multifaceted talents and career. An absolute "must-have" title for Rafael Salas collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. 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, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most accomplished Filipino poets of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RAFAEL SALAS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0834802066.

Stock number: 66. ISBN: 0834802066

$US 20.00

Salisbury, John Patrick (Photographer) & Rilke, Rainer Maria (Contribution)
Drew And Jimmy

Imprint: Santa Fe, NM, Twin Palms Publishing, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 112 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 3000 copies. The first and only edition. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by John Patrick Salisbury and Jack Woody: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with red titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and Remembrance by John Patrick Salisbury. Poem, "Encounter", by Rainer Maria Rilke. Printed in gravure on pristine-white, thick uncoated Japanese paper in Kyoto, Japan to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In publisher's original plastic wrappers. Without DJ, as issued. Presents John Patrick Salisbury's "Drew And Jimmy". His photo-poem to his brother, Burton, who died at the age of nineteen. John Patrick and Burton grew up on Walnut Grove along the Sacramento River Delta. As he describes it, their sibling relationship was one of ferocious rivalry and fraternal love, brotherhood as a unique kind of friendship that, in their case, was tragically cut short by youthful death. To memorialize this friendship and the place in which it took place, Salisbury photographed their younger cousins, Drew and Jimmy, over the years, brothers who are "stand-ins" (there is no other word) for himself and his dead brother. Drew and Jimmy are photographed first as good-looking kids and then without a break, as handsome, full-grown teen-agers, against the same, unchanging Edenic backdrop. The photographs are redolent of American Pastoral, the innocence and purity of rural life that are celebrated by the great (and now-vanished) American tradition in literature and art. Salisbury's subdued and non-sensationalistic photographs have a lyrical beauty rarely found in contemporary photography. A journey into The Past as only the best photographs can sometimes render. An absolute "must-have" title for John Patrick Salisbury collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by John Patrick Salisbury. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original plastic wrappers, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Salisbury did NOT sign most copies of the Limited Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws: Rubbed, scuffed, worn, soiled. A scarce signed copy thus. 70 sheetfed gravure plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0944092314.

Stock number: 22100. ISBN: 0944092314

$US 100.00