The Breast (First Edition, inscribed)

Philip Roth

ISBN 10: 0030037166 / ISBN 13: 9780030037160

Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1972

About this Item

First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Oct. '84 / For Jeane / My Best / Philip K." The first Kepesh novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing throughout, a light dog ear crease on the front endpaper, and faint toning at the extremities of the boards. Jacket shows light rubbing.

Seller Inventory # 155361

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Breast (First Edition, inscribed)
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030037166
• ISBN 13: 9780030037160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Autograph Material

About this title

Synopsis

NY 1972 1st (stated) Holt Rinehart. Octavo, hardcover. octavo. Fine in Near Fine DJ.

From the Back Cover

"A radical, complex, and moving book...the best example yet of Roth's astonishing prowess when he is at the top of his talent and control." —Ted Solotaroff, Esquire

"A new shock world of sensual possibility.... Need one say again that Roth is an admirable novelist who never steps twice into the same river?" —Anthony Burgess

"The Breast is terrific...inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliant...and rich with meaning." —John Gardner, The New York TImes Book Review

"Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes—the joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and turns into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture." —Cynthia Ozick