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London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First Impression. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression of this novella, first published in the Autumn-Winter,1958-59, issue of The Paris Review, also on offer here. Crown 8vo (184 x 117mm): 157,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket priced 10s / 6d. About Fine (few spots to preliminaries and fore-edge), tightly bound, clean and bright throughout; about Fine jacket (minor professional restoration involving none of the design or lettering, to reinforce several closed tears and fill two trivial losses). Paris Review: Demy 8vo (216 x 128mm): 179,[13]pp. Publisher's illustrated card covers. About Fine, square and tight. Rodgers A1. A novella (which originally appeared on pp. 71-179 of The Paris Review, no. 20) and five short stories, two of which, "The Defender of the Faith" and "The Conversion of The Jews," are now widely anthologized and placed among Roth's best short fiction. "Intermingling comedy and…

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.