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Tight, clean copy of this, the first edition of Roth's elusive first book. Winner of the Houghton Literary Fellowship Award in the year of publication. Signed by the author on a laid in slip (TLS) signed in July of 1970. Dustwrapper maintains the $3.75 price. Shows a tiny bit of edgewear and darkening to extremes of dust jacket. Previous owner's neat signature and date to top of half-title page. 298 pp.

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.