Portnoy's Complaint by Roth, Signed (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 671 pages. Published in 2005. Volume Two of The Library of America's definitive Collected Works of Philip Roth. The First Hardcover Edition. 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. The First Edition is now scarce. Printed to the highest standards on acid-free paper, utilizing sewn binding, closely woven rayon cloth boards, satin bound-in ribbon marker, and a page layout that is both readable and elegant, each volume is guaranteed to last for several generations of readers and collectors (despite frequent and regular use, the estimated life span of Library of America Editions is 1000 years; un-used, they will last forever). Each volume is scrupulously edited and annotated by Ross Miller. Presents Volume Two of The Collected Works of Philip Roth: "When She Was Good", "Portnoy's Complaint", "Our Gang", and "The Breast". Four ground-breaking works which show the range and originality of Philip Roth's fictional art. "The range and inventiveness of Roth's fiction is dazzlingly displayed: The somber and penetrating realism of 'When She Was Good' (1967); the daring verbal wit of his comic masterpiece 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1969), which made Roth a reluctant literary celebrity; the unrestrained political satire of 'Our Gang' (1971), his Swiftian takedown of the Nixon administration; and the fantasy of 'The Breast' (1972), featuring the debut of Roth protagonist David Kepesh as he endures a metamorphosis worthy of Kafka or Gogol" (Publisher's blurb). "One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture" (Cynthia Ozick). "Our foremost novelist since Faulkner" (Harold Bloom). Philip Roth was only the third writer to be so honored by The Library of America while still alive. Published in chronological order, the entire oeuvre consists of ten volumes in all and will surely be regarded as one of the "high spots" in The Library of America Series. Roth famously announced in 2012 that he has permanently stopped writing. 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 copy of Volume Two is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Library of America Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, have the bookstore's stamp, or are subsequent printings yet command hundreds of dollars. 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 1931082804. Signed by Author.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Paul Bacon (dust jacket design) (illustrator). First edition. 8vo. Pp. [3], 4-274, [2], including a one page, "Note about the Author." Bound in dark blue cloth with the authors initials in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering on spine. A bright copy in a fresh dust jacket, top corner of front flap clipped as issued, with $6.95 price intact and "2/69" code on the rear flap. Laid in is a Will Rogers First Day Cancel, 1948, postmarked Claremore, Oklahoma, signed in pencil by Philip Roth. First printing of the first edition. The author's third full-length novel, which attracted significant controversy due to pubescent narrator Alexander Portnoy's frank and obsessive focus on onanism and, into adulthood, his sexual exploits. Beyond the novel's prurient aspects, Jewish groups protested an unflattering portrayal, in their interpretation, of Roth's New Jersey demimonde. The novel was banned by many libraries and provoked arguments about censorship.The condition of this copy is notably clean, with the well known dust jacket, designed by Paul Bacon, now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Edition limited to 600 copies. In a Very Good slipcase with red paper over cardboard worn through along about three inches of edge. Slight browning on spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good-. Limited Edition. Octavo, 274pp. About very good in the publisher's rough-textured cream cloth. Page block slightly pulling from spine, spine gently cocked, with very mild flecking to the spine gilt. Contents clean and bright. In the publisher's slipcase, very good, with gentle soiling to edges. Lacking, as often, the dust jacket. This is number 45 of 600 limited copies SIGNED by Roth on the limitation page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited edition, #7 of 600 copies signed by Roth on the limitation page. 8.25" x 5.5". XII, 274, [4] pp. Publisher's cloth boards in a cream colored DJ. Housed in a red paper-covered slip case. Minor spots of foxing to head of spine and rear board; Very minor wear to top edge of DJ; a few small, superficial stains to front panel; some toning to front, rear, and spine panels of DJ. Some wear and rubbing to slipcase. Overall, a Near Fine copy in a slipcase showing faint staining and wear. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. Copy #33 of 600 SIGNED by the author of the book that gained him a wide readership and that was made into a funny film starring Richard Benjamin as the neurotic young man obsessed with sex. Spine gilt dull. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper, but in a Near Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing; slightest wear to book with tight binding; light rubbing and soiling to otherwise bright dust jacket with small closed tears; NF/VG+; signed by Philip Roth on a book plate that is attached to the front free end paper; pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Signed limited first edition of one of Roth's best, most-loved, and most controversial novels. Roth's much-praised, much-hated, much-discussed comic novel detailing the familial, sexual, scatological, spiritual, and other travails of the eponymous narrator. Donaldson is the author of respected biographies of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and authored a 1970 article on Roth in the journal Contemporary Literature. "This is the novel which is said to do for masturbation what Melville did for the whale" (Anthony Burgess). The limited edition is quite scarce in both the original jacket and slipcase. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original cream textured cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt. In original cream dust jacket. In original red paper slipcase with number handwritten to spine (83). Red endpapers, red top edge, fore-edge machine deckle. [10], 274, [2] pages. Signed by Roth on limitation page, numbered 83. Jacket with toned spine, uneven toning around joints. Book clean with only light toning to spine. Near fine in very good jacket, near fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Cream cloth titled in gilt, red topstain. Limited edition # 215 signed by Roth to the limitation page. Bookplate to fep and 6 small tape ghosts to ffep else unmarked, tight and square; hint of toning to cloth at heel. The DJ is lightly toned, with a smudge to spine. The original slipcase is slightly rubbed/soiled and numbered to heel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition. With SIGNED typed excerpt from the novel affixed to front paste-down; creased to tail. Publisher's original dark grey boards with gilt to spine. Red top stain. In dust jacket. A little crinkling to head of some leaves at the centre of the book. Jacket chipped to spine ends and corners; foxing to reverse. *** This UK first edition has a signed typed excerpt from the novel (the first two pages typed on a A4 sheet) affixed to the front past-down. A unique copy of this quintessential novel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Stated first printing, SIGNED by the author on a blank prelim. Dust Jacket is clipped with the price of $6.95 visible and in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows very minor wear and tear. Top edges red, minor foxing on the edges and endpapers, pages are clean. In Fine condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Trade Edition/Stated 1st Printing. SIGNED by PHILIP ROTH on a bookplate attached to title page (signature only). Black boards; gold lettering, red topstain. some spine slant and boards lightly soiled.$6.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected; lightly rubbed. From the famous 1972 film version of the novel: Attached to front end page is a card SIGNED by RICHARD BENJAMIN (played 'Alexander Portnoy'). and a card SIGNED by LEE GRANT (played 'Sophie Portnoy'). Attached to first free-page is a color photo card SIGNED by KEVIN CONWAY (played 'Smolka' in film). Also attached to third blank page is a card SIGNED and inscribed by KAREN BLACK (played 'Mary Jane Reid'). (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st printing hardcover copy of Roth's novel "Everyman"). Also laid-in is the original Wall Street Journal memorial artical on death of Roth, by Cynthia Ozick, entitled "In Praise of Zest and Laughter". Unique signed copy for the Roth--Portnoy fan or collector.NOTE: No international orders for this book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. SIGNED first printing, as stated on copyright page. Signed by author on tipped-in page. Book near fine. Dust jacket very good, very minor wear, small water stain along front top edge, front flap clipped but not price-clipped. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. The signed limited edition, one of 600 copies, in original publisher's slipcase. This is number 70 of the 600. No dust jacket. Signed Limited Edition. Ruggedly bound in heavy rough oatmeal-colored cloth and stamped brightly in gold on the front boards and on the spine. Top edge stained red. With red endpapers. Very good or better condition with some slight staining on spine and slight soiling on bottom of slipcase.

Portnoy's Complaint - Signed Limited Edition ROTH, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint. New York: Random House, [1969]. Signed Limited Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 207 x 143 mm.). [x], [1]-275, [2] pp. "Six hundred copies have been specially printed and bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered "32" [signed] "Philip Roth". Publisher's cream buckram, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, red endpapers, top edge stained red. A fine copy in the original red cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number on spine. Portnoy,s Complaint. "A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature." Philip Milton Roth (1933-2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction - often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey - is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in very lovely near fine dust jacket. Signed by Roth on the title page. An uncommonly fresh copy becoming harder to find in such nice condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited edition #456/600. Housed in publishers slip case. Some fading to slip case, top and bottom cracked at extremities, shelf wear. Small water mark on lower spine of dust jacket, toning to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. 274pp. Signed limited Edition #319/600. Housed in publishers slip case. Hardcover: FINE. Dust Cover: NEAR FINE. Book is square and tight, without any markings. Wrapper has modest bumping / color loss on spine. SIGNED by the author.The book that gained him a wide readership and that was made into a film starring Richard Benjamin as the neurotic young man obsessed with sex. Told in a continuous monolog from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Signed by Author.