Exit Ghost Signed by Roth Philip (10 results)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 292 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine red with white and black lettering. Exterior has very mild wear. Boards have slight wear including faint sunning. Text block has very mild wear. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column X. 1406054. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Advanced Reading Copy. Presentation Copy. "This advance reading copy was printed and bound especially for booksellers and friends of Houghton Mifflin." Very Good Book/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. "This presentation edition of 'Exit Ghost', signed by the author, is limited to 750 copies." Signed by the author in ink directly to the limitation page. Includes article cut from newspaper dated October 7, 2007. Black full paper binding with gilt stamped initials on front, gilt stamped title on spine, and red endpapers. Covers show edgewear, rubbing, scuffing and shelfwear but are otherwise clean. Front and back covers show white scuff marks to bottom edges. Front cover shows 2" vertical indentation to fore edge. Back cover shows white scuff mark to top edge. Upper corner of back cover lightly bumped. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked. Newspaper article shows age tanning, creases, smudges, and tears. 292 pages. 5-5/8 X 8-1/4. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A First Edition, First Printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Roth on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 693 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$35.00" on front flap. Boards fully bound in publisher's green cloth. Has previous bookseller's demarcation stamped on dedication page. Signed flat on title page by Philip Roth. Shelved under Front Counter. 1406546. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 292 pages. Published in 2007. The author's eighth and final "Zuckerman" novel. One of Philip Roth's finest achievements. Limited Edition of 750 copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. It comes with a brief Introduction by Philip Roth that does NOT appear in any other edition. Without DJ, as issued. The Limited Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. It is now scarce. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "Exit Ghost". The final "Zuckerman" novel. The title is aptly allusive, as the very first novel featuring Nathan Zuckerman is "The Ghost Writer". After more than a decade in rural New England, Nathan Zuckerman, now 71 years old, returns to New York City, to consult his doctor about the prostate condition that has left him incontinent and impotent (the first two major blows in the Rothian universe, dire intimations of mortality, the third and final blow being death). "Roth being Roth, the plot is much more complicated than it at first appears. Within a few days of arriving in New York, Zuckerman accidentally encounters Amy Bellette, the woman who was once the muse/wife of his beloved idol, writer S. I. Lonoff. He also meets a young novelist, and promptly begins fantasizing about the writer's young and beautiful wife. There's also a sub-plot about a would-be Lonoff biographer, who enrages Zuckerman with his brashness and ambition, two qualities a faithful Roth reader cannot help ascribing to the young, sycophantic Zuckerman himself. Roth's voice is wise, rueful, and full of wit" (Publishers Weekly). The publication of "Exit Ghost" coincides with the release of the Zuckerman Trilogy itself ("The Ghost Writer", "Zuckerman Unbound", and "The Anatomy Lesson") as Volume Four of The Library of America Series, the only writer so honored while he was still alive. Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition/Advance "Presentation Edition" of 750 copies. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the Front Limitation Page by Philip Roth. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such pre-signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0618915478. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy. 261 pages, 8vo. Special issue of the First Printing: Presentation Edition limited to 750 copies, SIGNED by the author Philip Roth on presentation page. Issued without dust-jacket. Advance reading copy printed and bound especially for booksellers and friends of Houghton Mifflin. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine, gilt initials on front cover. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and cover boards. Otherwise, volume is tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine-minus condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Advanced Reading Copy. Presentation Copy. "This advance reading copy was printed and bound especially for booksellers and friends of Houghton Mifflin." Very Good Book/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. "This presentation edition of 'Exit Ghost', signed by the author, is limited to 750 copies." Signed by the author in ink directly to the limitation page. Includes article cut from newspaper dated October 7, 2007. Black full paper binding with gilt stamped initials on front, gilt stamped title on spine, and red endpapers. Covers show edgewear, rubbing, scuffing and shelfwear but are otherwise clean. Front and back covers show white scuff marks to bottom edges. Front cover shows 2" vertical indentation to fore edge. Back cover shows white scuff mark to top edge. Upper corner of back cover lightly bumped. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and unmarked. Newspaper article shows age tanning, creases, smudges, and tears. 292 pages. 5-5/8 X 8-1/4. Signed.

First edition. Hardcover. A presentation edition of 750 copies. The last of Roth's novels to feature his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. A clean very near fine copy in boards, issued without a dust jacket. Signed by Roth on the presentation page. Despite the size of the edition, these don't seem to have been distributed well.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Milton Glaser (illustrator). First Edition. [a beautiful copy, both the book and the jacket in as-new condition]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For Kitaj -- / Philip / Aug. 2007." Roth's ninth and final "Nathan Zuckerman" novel, which brings the series full circle as his now-aged protagonist becomes involved with the biographer of the writer who had been the object of young Zuckerman's adulation in the first of the books, "The Ghost Writer." The inscribee of this copy was artist R.B. Kitaj, who became a close friend of Roth after the two met in London in 1985. Kitaj had positioned himself as an explicitly Jewish artist from the 1970s onward, and it's been noted that much of his thinking, particularly on the question of his Jewish identity, was influenced and inspired by Roth's writings. Kitaj executed a portrait of the writer, in charcoal on handmade paper, around the time they met, which was singled out for praise when it was included in the Tate Gallery's 1994 retrospective of the artist's work. Both that portrait and another, done in charcoal on canvas a few years later, were retained by the artist until his death in 2007. Roth, for his part, incorporated elements of Kitaj's personality into characters in several of his books, most explictly that of puppeteer Mickey Sabbath in his 1995 novel "Sabbath's Theater." The 2018 Arion Press edition of this novel was illustrated with thirteen of Kitaj's paintings and two of his drawings, a design choice made with the understanding and approval of Roth, although he died before the book went into production. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ONE of 750 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPIES of the FIRST EDITION, in black boards, without a dust jacket, as issued. Fine. Signed by Author.