Operation Shylock

Advance bookseller's edition of the first trade edition of this PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel by this Pulitzer Prize. shas tipped in page that reads: "This limited edition special advance reader's edition is made from uncorrected proof". Hardcover with gray colored boards, dark blue cloth covered spine with no lettering. Paper label printed in blue on front board. Facsimile of Philip Roth signature is in gilt at lower right front. No dust jacket, as issued. Tipped in is a promotional letter to booksellers Laid in is a facsimile letter from Peter Roth to a Simon & Schuster editor requesting book be published as fiction rather than as an account of true events. Advance Reader's Editions, Advance Reader Copy (ARC), Uncorrected Proofs, etc. are published prior to the Hardcover First Edition and usually distributed to reviewers and bookstores. Text may or may not be the same as the final published edition. CONDITION: Very Good. Book is square and solid, spine is tight. Wear on bottom board edges from shelving. Lower front corner of front board is rubbed, other corners very good. Discoloration spot on front paper label over the H. No writing or markings internally nor externally.…