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ROTH, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus [Hardcover] ROTH, Philip. Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1959 Houghton Mifflin hard cover - 1st edition 6th printing - no dust jacket - minor stain to page edge - otherwise a fine clean like new collectible - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip.. GOODBYE, COLUMBUS.. Andre Deutsch,, London,, 1959.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U. K. Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp 157. Fiction. Very slight lean, covers very slightly marked, spine very slightly faded; sound VG.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Roth, Philip. Goodbye Columbus. Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in price clipped dustjacket. Book in VG+ condition, with previous owner's name neatly written on the front endpaper. Jacket in bright condition with light age marking to white of rear cover. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus (1st UK edition). Andre Deutsch, London, 1959.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Andre Deutsch, London 1959. 157 pages. 1st edition, 1st printing. Blue boards with sunning to backstrip. Small fray hair at crown towards rear of backstrip. Tiny loss of cloth on one corner tip. Book shows slight lean. Endpapers are clean and pages lay tight. Binding and hinges are strong. Very faint, sparse foxing to page edges (barely). Book is wrapped in a facsimile DJ.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. Goodbye Columbus (signed by author). Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth. Andre Deutsch, London. 1959 first UK edition first printing. Book in good condition, on title, remains of label to rear pastedown, original boards, slight shelf-lean, spine sunned, light bumping to spine tips and corners, black ink mark to lower edge. Rare signed copy of Roth's first work.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Philip Roth. Goodbye Columbus. Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First UK Edition. 157 pp. Hard Cover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Minor toning & fading to blue boards, otherwise outstanding. Dust Wrapper has slight discoloration and minor bumping around spine. Lovely copy of Roth's first book - in the much more attractive UK dust wrapper. Goodbye Columbus won the 1960 US National Book Award for Fiction. The book is a collection of short stories, a novella and five short stories, two of which, "The Defender of the Faith" and "The Conversion of The Jews," are now widely anthologized and placed among Roth's best short fiction.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus (1st UK edition). Andre Deutsch, London, 1959.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Andre Deutsch, London 1959. 157 pages. 1st edition, 1st printing in original 1st issue DJ with 10s 6d price intact on flap. Blue boards. Book shows slight lean. Endpapers are clean and pages lay tight. Binding and hinges are strong. Sparse foxing to top page edges. Blue paper covered boards are clean. Small amount of sunning to crown as a result of an open chip to DJ crown. DJ shows light soiling with an open chip at crown that shows on both the front and back near crown. 1 or 2 tiny chips otherwise. Vintage bookseller sticker at base of front pastedown. VG/VG-
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
ROTH Philip. Goodbye, Columbus. , 1959.
Price: US$676.34 + shipping
Description: First UK edition. Small 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Andre Deutsch. Philip Roth's first book, a collection containing the title novella along with five other short stories. An excellent copy in dust jacket, some trivial wear to extremities.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus. Andre Deutsch, London, 1959.
Price: US$699.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Blue cloth titled in gilt. First British edition. Slight bump to spine foot, rear board, and very slight bend to rear board near bottom corner, else a tight unmarked sharp-cornered copy. The DJ in mylar is price clipped else near fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Andre Deutsch, (London), 1959.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Description: First UK edition of Roth's novella, in unusually nice condition and with the scarce and striking dust jacket. GOODBYE, COLUMBUS first appeared in THE PARIS REVIEW, one of the prestigious publications to offer its exhilarating approval to a young Roth: "In the beginning it simply amazed him that any truly literate audience could seriously be interested in his store of tribal secrets, in what he knew, as a child of his neighborhood, about the rites and taboos of his clan - about their aversions, their aspirations, their fears of deviance and defection, their underlying embarrassments and their ideas of success" (Roth, "Goodbye Newark"). 7'' x 4.75''. Original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (10s 6d) pictorial dust jacket by Adrian Bailey. 157, [1] pages. Offsetting to front endpapers, faint staining to lower margins of pages 25-30. Minor chipping and edgewear, light soil to jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus. LONDON Andre Deutsch 1959, 1959.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published in Andre Deutsch in 1959. A fine book without inscriptions or foxing. A superb example. In the very nearly fine unclipped wrapper which is minutely browned to the spine. Some trivial wear to the edges. A wonderful copy of Roth's first work. Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth, comprising the title novella "Goodbye, Columbus"which first appeared in The Paris Reviewand five short stories. It was his first book
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$1099.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression of this novella, first published in the Autumn-Winter,1958-59, issue of The Paris Review, also on offer here. Crown 8vo (184 x 117mm): 157,[1]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine lettered in gold; illustrated dust jacket priced 10s / 6d. About Fine (few spots to preliminaries and fore-edge), tightly bound, clean and bright throughout; about Fine jacket (minor professional restoration involving none of the design or lettering, to reinforce several closed tears and fill two trivial losses). Paris Review: Demy 8vo (216 x 128mm): 179,[13]pp. Publisher's illustrated card covers. About Fine, square and tight. Rodgers A1. A novella (which originally appeared on pp. 71-179 of The Paris Review, no. 20) and five short stories, two of which, "The Defender of the Faith" and "The Conversion of The Jews," are now widely anthologized and placed among Roth's best short fiction. "Intermingling comedy and tragedy, the hilarity and heartbreak of modern Jewish life, Columbus follows Roth's hero, Neil Klugman, as he struggles to cope with a burgeoning love affair, to tolerate his empty lifestyle and his barren surroundings in Newark, New Jersey, and to decide whether the materialistic goals he now espouses are worth pursuing." The first book from "arguably the greatest American master of fictional doppelgangers." (Literary Encyclopedia) Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors' works. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus. Andre Deutsch, 1959.
Price: US$1262.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Fine in fine unclipped dustwrapper. The author's first book. A beautiful copy of this book, the scarce first British edition.Published: Andre Deutsch, 1959
Seller: Roy Turner Books, Stockport, United Kingdom
Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus (Goodbye Columbus). Andre Deutsch, London, UK, 1959.
Price: US$1417.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A genuine UK first edition/first printing, with 'First published 1959 by Andre Deutsh Limited' on the copyright page, and no later edition stated. A fantastic copy of Roth's first novel, in the scarce British edition (rarer than its US counterpart). This copy is in fantastic condition, not price-clipped, or ex-library, and with no inscriptions or marks of any kind. No foxing to pages, or waviness to the book block. Solid and clean. The tiniest amount of wear to one or two jacket corners, but no tears or nicks. A somehwat darkened jacket spine, but the famous yellow front is bright. Now protected by a removable plastic cover. More photos available on request.
Seller: bluemanbooks, Ludlow, United Kingdom