Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. First edition, review copy, with slip. 298 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in yellow and white on spine. Fine in illustrated dust jacket with light shelf wear to edges. First edition, review copy, with slip. 298 pp. 8vo. Philip Roth's first book, which won the National Book Award and launched him to fame.

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.