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.

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.