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Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, 1947.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ has browned and has chips along the top and bottom edges, some with paper loss; DJ spine is faded; pages have browned
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul.. The Victim. Vanguard Press (1947)., 1947.
Price: US$15.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
BELLOW, SAUL. VICTIM. Vanguard Press 1947,verso, NY, 1947.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S5.95) DUST JACKET.BOOK minimal EX-LIBRARY STAMPINGS TO ENDPAPERS text block foreedges & TP. CLEAN SPINE. SOME CLEAR TAPE RESIDUE TO OTHERWISE clean, solid & bright.NICE CLOTH COVERS. DJ has been protected from abuse & is very nice indeed. ; Silver spine titles with initials S.B. all on rich blue cloth hardcovers. dark red endpapers.white titles on light blue dust jacket. ; 294pg pages; Leventhal Is A Natural Victim."., reissue in wake of herzog's success, " third printing" copyright page. the author's second novel
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press Inc., New York, 1947.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, no dust jacket. Ex-library. With inscription and signed by the poet Irving Layton.
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book has light edgewear witha small tear at bottom spine edge. Lightly bumped & worn corners. Light soiling. Book has a light old book smell to it.
Seller: Book Nook, Cadillac, MI, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press Inc., New York, 1947.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, no dust jacket. Ex-library. With inscription and signed by the poet Irving Layton.
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. The Victim. The Vanguard Press Inc., 1947.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardbound in clipped dust jacket. 1st edition. Dust jacket shows small chips to edge & spine, minor foxing to end pages, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book cloth cover is very bright and clean. No names, markings, notes or wear inside. Dust jacket is missing small pieces and quite worn on top and spine edges and all corners, but not taped or separated. Now protected in removable Brodart. $4.95 price in place. Top page edges faded blue with some scratches. Lower page edges may have been lightly sanded to remove soiling.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. Vanguard Press (1947), New York, 1947.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Good or better with light offset on endpapers and corners and spine ends showing wear and fraying. Tight, and internally very good. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Corners and edges bumped. A sticker, about an 1 inch by 3 inch, that has previous owners info is on the bottom left hand corner of the inside of the back cover. Dust Jacket is chipped at the corners and the spine. DJ has an open tear on top of the spine about half an inch deep and several small closed tears along the edges. There are notes in paen on pages 64 and 81.
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul (1915-2005). THE VICTIM.. Vanguard Press, New York, NY, 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 294 pages of text. Original black hardcover cloth binding; moderate rubbing to extremities with the biginning of fraying, and overall somewhat shelfworn; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Lacks the dustjacket. Front endpaper (blank) is lacking, rendering the front inner hinge starting to loosen. Author's 2nd book. Chicago author. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo in black cloth. VG- in VG- jacket. 294 pp. Upper corner of front board well bumped, with fraying and rubbing to head of spine and upper rear board edge; bowing to rear board, with a crease down length faintly visible externally; mild sunning to pastedowns and endpapers. Price-clipped jacket is mildly chipped at extremities, with a 1" rectangular chip from spine and a small waterspot to rear panel. Spine is faded to the point of near illegibility. Bellow's uncommon second book in a condition less suited for the fastidious veteran than for the nascent collector just beginning to acquire. [+2]
Seller: Mausoleum Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, 1947.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1947. Saul Bellow (1915-2005) won the NBA, the Pulitzer, and the Nobel Prize. This is a Very Good (plus) copy of the First Edition of his second published novel, a Burgess 99 title. Black cloth binding with green titling on the spine. Clean text; 294 pages.Gray topstain; foreedge uncut. Text is vVery fresh. Hints of bumping only; rubbing to head and foot of the spine. A solid copy, lacking the dustjacket. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
BELLOW, SAUL. THE VICTIM. NEW YORK NY VANGUARD PRESS, INC. (THE) 1947., 1947.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: VG/NONE. AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK BOOK HAS A SMALL BIT OF CORNER WEAR WITH SOME LIGHT SPOTTING OF THE BLACK CLOTH COVERS, AND A COUPLE OF SMALL DENTS ON THE FRONT COVER. A NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth. 8vo. First edition. 294 pp. Very good +, in very good dust jacket with chips and one inch by two inch piece missing near bottom spine end. Slight wear to extremities. Endpapers foxed.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
BELLOW, Saul.. The Victim.. NY: Vanguard Press (1947)., 1947.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 294 pp. Near fine in black boards; lacks dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original black cloth. In near fine condition. A Burgess 99 title. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career, Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works, the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" (The New York Review of Books).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. THE VICTIM. The Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$99.05 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.7
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, E-151, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Vanguard Press. 1947. 294 pgs. First Edition/First Printing (no later states on the verso). DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (chips and missing pieces present to the extremities of the DJ with large repaired closed tears present to the panel; rear flap detached). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex of New York City. Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave, only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining his life. Unable to shake the stranger loose, Leventhal is led by his own self-doubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia and fear. E-151; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good minus first edition book in very good minus dust jacket. Creasing along the edges at head and tail of board spine. Black cloth covered boards are clean; blue text on spine is clear. Back panel has several vertical creases running from top to bottom edge. Corners are bumped on front panel. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise book is internally clean. Dust jacket is sunned and soiled overall, more so on spine. Closed, diagonal from upper right side of back jacket panel, across and along the right side of spine fold and back across spine to back panel, 6 1/2" total. Head and tail of jacket spine are rubbed and chipped up to 1/4" across upper and lower edges. Back fore-edge fold is creased and rubbed. Lower right corner on front panel has 5/8" closed diagonal tear. Fore-edge corners are rubbed with loss of approx. 1/8". Not price clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original black cloth with blue title and blue topstain, with single date on copyright age and $2.75 price on flap. Bellow's second novel, now very scarce. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is fine, clean , bright and whole except for a 1/2" V chip to the bottom corner of the spine not affecting text. Protected by a Brodart jacket cover.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. The Victim. Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first edition (as indicated by lack of additional printings noted on the copyright page as is the practice of Vanguard Press) A very good copy with the previous owner's name inked to the front pastedown and some age toning to the front and rear pastedowns. The dust jacket is very good minus to very good with some age darkening to the spine area, a small tape reinforcement to the top of the spine and the fold betweet the front cover and front inside flap. A small chip to the bottom of the front cover.
Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 294 pp. Black cloth with blue spine lettering. Very Good+ with gift inscription on front free endpaper, foxing to edges. In Very Good dust jacket with dulled and toned spine panel, chipped along top edge of back panel, a few smaller chips from head and tail, unclipped ($2.75). The author's second novel, with troubled protagonist Asa Leventhal.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, hardcover. Black cloth with blue lettering on spine. 294 pages. Very good with head/tail of spine bumped and some browning to endpapers, in a very good dust jacket with tanned spine and light wear to edges. Price of $2.75 at bottom corners of front and rear flaps. Mylar cover on jacket. Author's second novel.
Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul.. The Victim.. The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York, 1947.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Bellow's second novel. Just About Fine in black cloth, powder-blue dustwrapper, price-clipped, with the authorial photo on the rear flap showing Bellow drawing pensively on a meerschawm pipe. 294pp. Fore-edge untrimmed. Very slight toning of spine panel. Uncommon now in this condition. Q18541
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York, 1947.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Very good in fair dust jacket
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York, 1947.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [viii], 294 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with blue spine lettering. Offsetting to endpapers, else Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with dulled spine panel, a little soiled and rubbed, chip at head, a few short tears, unclipped. The author's second novel, with troubled protagonist Asa Leventhal.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Hardbound book in dustwrapper. 294 pp. First edition of the Nobel prize winner's second book. A sound very good copy with bright blue spine lettering in a very good clipped dustwrapper (although the price of $2.75 is stated on the bottom of the rear flap). Some soiling and general light wear. Spine lettering very readable. A book that is seldom found in fine condition, this copy is better than most we have handled.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. The Victim (First Edition). The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing. A near-fine copy in a very good jacket. A clean copy with price ($2.75) intact on front and flaps. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Offsetting on pastedowns and endpapers. Some rubbing to head of spine (as pictured). Jacket is near-fine but for darkened spine and a few chips (as pictured) on a beautiful copy. [Fiction-B].
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. Vanguard Press (1947), New York, 1947.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Faint, unavoidable offset to pastedowns (from binding) and minor edge rubbing, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket with slightly faded spine, white spine lettering tanned, a few chips, a few closed tears (with tape repair on verso) and some shallow damp staining to flap folds. Still, an attractive copy.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Vanguard Press - New York, 1947. 8vo 294pp. First Edition - hardcover - black cloth, blue lettering. Gray colored top, fore-edge uncut. Some offsetting to front and back boards. Dust jacket clipped. Overall a very nice tightly bound copy with no bookplates, tears or writings.Comes with a custom fitted folding box.
Seller: MCTbooks, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$299.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1947, The first American Edition, published by the Vanguard Press of the author's second book and Burgess 99 Novel. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with light blue lettering to the spine. Powder blue price-clipped dustjacket with tears on both ends of binding, and darkening and tears on the flaps. 294 pages, end pages have some yellowing due to time. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career, Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works, the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" (The New York Review of Books).
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original black cloth. An excellent example in a near fine dust jacket. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career, Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works, the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" (The New York Review of Books).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
BELLOW, Saul.. The Victim.. Vanguard Press,, NY:, 1947.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Nobel laureate's second book. First edition. Upper corners bumped, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear with two very small chips at the crown of the spine, light age toning) dust jacket.; 294 pages B0057XKD7K
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's second novel. Very good in black cloth boards with blue title to spine. Minor wear to corners and spine ends and very light evidence of a minor dampstain to the rear board. Signed by the previous owner on the front free endpaper, and browning to both gutters; otherwise, a clean copy. In a good light blue dust jacket with white title to spine and front panel. There are several large chips to the top edges of the dust jacket and there are a few small chips to the bottom edge. Browning to the spine panel and dampstaining to rear panel. 294 pages. LIT.052511.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, 1947.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (21cm); full black cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; powder blue topstain; dustjacket; [viii],294,[2]pp. Trivial wear to spine ends, faint foxing to text edges, with some offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears, and some gentle sunning to white lettering on spine panel; Very Good+ or better. An attractive copy of Bellow's second book, a Burgess 99 novel.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. VICTIM. The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1947.
Price: US$406.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 294 pp. Original black cloth covers. Light wear and bumping to extremities. DJ has chipping to spine ends and several short tears which have been repaired w/ tape. A little faded and age toned. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$460.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the fep. Endpapers are yellowed and stained. 294 pages in very good, clean condition except for last page which is stained. Outer edges yellowed. Black cloth with blue titles on the spine. Corners lightly bumped. Light rubbing on the edges, head/tail of spine. Blue DJ with white titles. Jacket is in poor condition.; missing one flap and half of the lower jacket and spine. Upper jacket is mostly intact, with chips at the corners and head of spine. Jacket yellowed. Author's second book. GOOD+/POOR
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 294 pages. First edition, first printing. His second novel and Burgess 99 title. Price clipped. Near fine book with a the top edge stain faded in a near fine dust jacket with slight fading to the spine and light wear to the corners. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED by author on end paper. First edition. Black cloth with small dig bottom front edge, top edge faded, as is top edge of spine. Glue stains to outer gutters, two small bookplates. Dj lightly soiled and edge worn, small chips at extremities, 1/4 in chip at top spine, plus 1 inch vertical tear top rear panel. Horizontal break between C and T on dj spine.Bla; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 294 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1947.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original price of $2.75 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has lightly sunned spine with age toning and small (<1/8 inch) archival closed tear else very good now protected in paper backed polyester film. Pages and ep's have age toning with no writing or marking.
Seller: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, U.S.A.
Saul Bellow. The Victim. Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy in Like Jacket.First Edition.$2.75 On Flap. Beautiful Copy Of The Author's Second Book. Very Rare In Such Splendid Condition. Beautiful Fresh Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second book. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A Burgess 99 title. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career, Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works, the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" (The New York Review of Books).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A nice copy of this, Bellow's second novel, signed on the title page. Spine of jacket darkened, with a fingernail sized chip at both base and top of spine. The first edition, published by the Vanguard Press in 1947. A near fine copy of the book in a very good dust jacket.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. Vanguard Press, 1947.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very attractive copy. The first American edition, published by the Vanguard Press in 1947. A near fine example of the book with a light bump to a single corner. The dust jacket has a very unobtrusive tear to the front panel and a touch of toning to the spine and the white rear panel. Saul Bellow has inscribed this copy on the half title. Bellow's second book, following Dangling Man.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
BELLOW, Saul. Victim. The Vanguard Press, Inc, New York, 1947.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1947]. First edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm). [8], [1]-294, [2, blank] pp. Original full black cloth, blue lettering on spine. Top edge blue, fore-edge uncut. With original pictorial dust jacket. Sight foxing to endpapers and inner flaps of the dust jacket. Back panel of the dust jacket with a small closed tear. Otherwise near fine. This author's first two books (Dangling Man and The Victim, 1947) had a profound impact on the mid-twentieth century literary scene. "Together, they effectively introduced a new style of American fiction. The "Gentile" era of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner began, with Bellow, to give way to a new Jewish tradition and a sense of moral and social alarm. Bellow's characters are generally anti-heroes caught up in the existential dilemma of trying to define themselves with some measure of dignity despite the constant impediments of objective and subjective circumstances." (Benet's The Reader's Encyclopedia, fourth edition.) Bellow is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (for Humbolt's Gift, 1975,) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. HBS 64666. $750.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim.. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed twice by the author. Signed "good wishes Saul Bellow" on the title page and again on a notecard on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing, near fineÂin the original dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career, Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works, the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" (The New York Review of Books).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. The Victim. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$1475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 294 pages. First edition, first printing. His second novel and Burgess 99 title. Signed by Bellow on title page. Fine book with a touch of off setting from printer's glue on the front and back end papers in a fine dust jacket with very slight fading to the spine. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Description: BELLOW, Saul. The Victim. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. N.Y.: The Vanguard Press, Inc., (1947). First edition of the author's second book. Fine copy signed by the author.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. THE VICTIM. Signed. The Vanguard Press, New York, 1947.
Price: US$2650.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Lovely example of the First edition of the author's second book. Signed by Bellow at the top of the title-page in black ink. First edition. 8vo., 294pp., black cloth, lettered in light blue to spine, top edge stained blue. A fine copy in dustwrapper, price-clipped, showing minimal use; The delicate powder blue dustwrapper just a bit faded at the spine, a couple of short closed tears. By far a better than usual example of this important Burgess 99 Novel.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada