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Signed first edition of Roth's first book, winner of the 1960 National Book Award for fiction. The titular novella and five additional short stories of this collection originally appeared in THE NEW YORKER, COMMENTARY, and THE PARIS REVIEW, prestigious publications whose august approval exhilarated and intoxicated the young Roth: "In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan - about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success" (Roth, "Goodbye Newark"). 8'' x 5.5''. Original dark blue cloth. Yellow topstain. In original unclipped ($3.75) grey pictorial dust jacket by Sanford Roth. 298 pages. Signed by Roth on front free endpaper. Minor wear, sunning and faint soil to jacket spine and edges. Clean and sharp overalll.

Goodbye, Columbus is a novella plus five short stories by Philip Roth, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and is a reflection on Jewish and middle-class life in America.