MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET [Signed]

Bellow, Saul

ISBN 10: 0670333190 / ISBN 13: 9780670333196

Published by The Viking Press, New York, New York, 1970

About this Item

Octavo, 313 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is blue with black and white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$6.95" on front flap, has mild toning to flaps and shelving wear along spine head, rear head edge and to fore corners. Boards have mild shelving wear and sun-fading along spine head and mild bumping to front head fore corner. Textblock head edge dyed blue, fore and tail edges have mild age-toning. Signed flat on front free-endpaper by Saul Bellow. Shelved Room C overflow. 1405464. Special Collections.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET [Signed]
• Publisher: The Viking Press, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670333190
• ISBN 13: 9780670333196
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Mr. Sammler's Planet by Bellow, Saul. 8vo.

About the Author

Saul Bellow was praised for his vision, his ear for detail, his humor, and the masterful artistry of his prose. Born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, he was raised in Chicago. He received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. During the Second World War he served in the Merchant Marines.

His first two novels, Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are penetrating, Kafka-like psychological studies. In 1948 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent two years in Paris and traveling in Europe, where he began his picaresque novel The Adventures of Augie March, which went on to win the National Book Award for fiction in 1954. His later books of fiction include Seize the Day (1956); Henderson the Rain King (1959); Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories (1968); Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970); Humboldt's Gift (1975), which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Dean's December (1982); More Die of Heartbreak (1987); Theft (1988); The Bellarosa Connection (1989);The Actual (1996); Ravelstein (2000); and, most recently, Collected Stories(2001). Bellow has also produced a prolific amount of non-fiction, collected in To Jerusalem and Back, a personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975, and It All Adds Up, a collection of memoirs and essays.

Bellow's many awards include the International Literary Prize for Herzog, for which he became the first American to receive the prize; the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the highest literary distinction awarded by France to non-citizens; the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence in Jewish Literature"; and America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the first time this award has been made to a literary personage. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."

Stanley Crouch’s books include Notes of a Hanging Judge, The All-American Skin Game (Nominated for the National Book Award), and a novel, Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome. He has received the Whiting Writer’s Award and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award.