ROTH, Henry. Call It Sleep. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1995.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Illus. with 48 photographs dating from the period of the story, 1907-1913, taken by various photographers in New York City. 4to, leather backed pictorial boards; pictorial cloth slipcase. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Fine. One of only 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Number 216 of only 300 copies printed.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Henry Roth. Call It Sleep. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1995.

Price: US$545.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Book in very fine condition with no flaws. The author has signed and numbered this edition. Signed "Henry Roth" and numbered as 88 out of 300 copies. Illustrated with 48 photographs set in New York City during the time period of the story. The cloth boards depict a brick building with large four pane windows, matching the design of the slipcase. There were an additional 26 lettered publication copies. Slip case shows the faintest hints of smudging, small bump to back end corner, small wrinkle to top of spine. Spine of slipcase mimics a building facade with the title encased in a business/apartment marquee. Published by the incredible Arion press, true masters of modern book making. Referred to as "allusive printing" as their book making choices are related to themes or aspects of the book's content/story. Book designed by Andrew Hoyem. Text type is Bulmer, paper is German mouldmade Zerkall for exquisite quality. Photographs printed in duotone offset lithography by Phelps-Schaefer. This is the 45th title published by Arion Press. No dust jacket issued; matching slipcase in Near Fine condition

Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.

Henry Roth. Call It Sleep. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1995.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 429, [1] pp. + 24 pp. of illustrations; edges untrimmmed; 4to, quarter dark green goatskin with titling stamped on spine, overall brick-patterned pale green cloth sides with windows; slipcase. Printed in Monotype Bulmer and Koch Kabel types on German mouldmade Zerkall paper. The 48 photographs of early twentieth-century Ellis Island and Lower East Side New York scenes are printed in duotone offset lithography. Slipcase covered in same patterned cloth. Designed by Andrew Hoyem. Copy no. 68 of 300 copies of this edition; signed by the author on the limitation page. Laid in is a small sheet of light blue paper with two typed sentences from this work, also signed by the author. Both the volume and slipcase are fine and fresh. Bibliography of the Arion Press 45.

Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Roth, Henry.. Call It Sleep.. The Arion Press, San Francisco, 1995.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: This is, properly, the fourth separate edition of Call It Sleep. Issued as the forty-fifth publication of the Arion Press. A Very Fine copy, printed letterpress, bound in dull grey-green cloth covered boards, dark green leather spine, in publisher's slipcase covered with same grey-green decorated cloth, limited to 326 copies (300 for sale), SIGNED by Roth on a preliminary leaf, this being #205. Laid in is the press's prospectus, which describes the 48 specially selected black and white period photographs chosen for inclusion in the text, which includes images by Lewis Hine, among others. A Very Fine copy, as new, in a Very Fine slipcase. Call It Sleep is preeminent among prose narratives which document the immigrant culture along the Eastern Seaboard of America during the first part of the 20th Century. Q08978

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.