Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. First edition, first printing of the author's first book. [x], 298 pp. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, toned and price clipped dust jacket. Minor stain at fore-edge of title, with some marks on ffep. Tipped in signature on ffep. First edition, first printing of the author's first book. [x], 298 pp. 8vo. Roth's first book, comprising the title novella and five short stories. An immediate success, it won the 1960 National Book Award for Fiction With Roth's signature tipped-in.

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.