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A fine first printing in a fine first issue dust jacket (publisher's initials at the very bottom of the spine of the jacket), signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Housed is a leather spine gold embossed clamshell case. A book often offered with a later state dust jacket, which has the publisher's initials slightly elevated on the spine.

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.