Reading Myself and Others (First Edition)

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Full green cloth, with gilt spine lettering and green painted top edge (very bright). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($8.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 270 pages. This book comprises twenty-three essays, many devoted to Philip Roth himself and his books, and others on writers including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, Milan Kundera, and Franz Kafka, along with broader reflections on literature and culture. Together, they offer a candid and incisive look at Roth’s literary development and his critical engagements with his contemporaries. Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most acclaimed American novelists of the twentieth century, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. This was his ninth book and first work of nonfiction.