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Philip Roth. Deception (First Edition, inscribed). Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "For Jerry Mayer - / Philip Roth." Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Rear board with light scratches. Rear panel of jacket with light scratches.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Deception. Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the Author on title page. (name in ink to endpaper; jacket price-clipped). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Deception (Signed First Edition, First Printing). Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed First Edition, First Printing of this Philip Roth novel that centers on pillow talk of the highest caliber. Roth bestows his own name on the male pillow talkee. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. 208 pages. Has a bit of tanning on the page edges, otherwise no sign of previous use.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Deception.. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this "extraordinary, elegant novel" (Fay Weldon, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. "With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writesâ"and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already nervously half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversationâ"mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialogueâ"sharp, rich, playful, inquiring, "moving," as Hermione Lee writes, "on a scale of pain from furious bafflement to stoic gaiety"â"is nearly all there is to this book, and all there needs to be. "A fiendishly clever piece of work.an amazing feat. He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist" (William Pritchard, Hudson Review).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Deception. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition book in near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Chocolate brown cloth covered boards with author's initial blind stamped in lower right corner of front panel; gilt text and graphics on spine. Boards are clean and text is crisp. Horizontal creasing along upper edge at head of board spine. Remainder mark on lower page edges else book would be near fine. Internally clean with very tight text block. Small amount of creasing along edges at head and tail of jacket spine and fore-edge corner tips, else fine. 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.
Roth, Philip. Deception.. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this "extraordinary, elegant novel" (Fay Weldon, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. "With the lover everyday life recedes," Roth writesâ"and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. At the center of Deception are two adulterers in their hiding place. He is a middle-aged American writer named Philip, living in London, and she is an articulate, intelligent, well-educated Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage to which, in her thirties, she is already nervously half-resigned. The book's action consists of conversationâ"mainly the lovers talking to each other before and after making love. That dialogueâ"sharp, rich, playful, inquiring, "moving," as Hermione Lee writes, "on a scale of pain from furious bafflement to stoic gaiety"â"is nearly all there is to this book, and all there needs to be. "A fiendishly clever piece of work.an amazing feat. He's invented the purest speech, the most convincing cadences, of any American novelist" (William Pritchard, Hudson Review).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. Deception. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Boards slightly bumped and rubbed, else near fine in a just about fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title page.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. Deception. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper with slight toning. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip [Joan Didion]. Deception. Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An association copy, not signed but from the library of Joan Didion, renown author of such works as The Year of Magical Thinking, Play It as It Lays, The White Album, and Slouching Toward Bethlehem. A bookplate affirming this provenance is on the front free endpaper.The business card of Simon and Schuster Editor-in-Chief Michael Korda laid in. A fine book with a very near fine jacket with slight offsetting to spine and one spot to front panel at the very upper left corner. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We also have a distinct interest in contemporary essay and invite you to explore our other Joan Didion offerings.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Deception [*SIGNED*]. Simon and Schuster (c.1990), New York, 1990.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [the book itself is flawless; the jacket shows only the tiniest traces of handling wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For Kitaj -- / from his struggling / friend -- / P.R. / London / March 1990." Novel about "a married, middle-aged American named Philip living in London and the married Englishwoman who is his mistress." A very nice association copy; the inscribee was artist R.B. Kitaj, who became a close friend after the two met in London in 1985. Kitaj had positioned himself as an explicitly Jewish artist from the 1970s onward, and it's been noted that much of his thinking, particularly on the question of his Jewish identity, was influenced and inspired by Roth's writings. Kitaj executed a portrait of the writer, in charcoal on handmade paper, around the time they met, which was singled out for praise when it was included in the Tate Gallery's 1994 retrospective of the artist's work. Both that portrait and another, done in charcoal on canvas a few years later, were retained by the artist until his death in 2007. Roth, for his part, incorporated elements of Kitaj's personality into characters in several of his books, most explictly that of puppeteer Mickey Sabbath in his 1995 novel "Sabbath's Theater." The 2018 Arion Press edition of Roth's "Exit Ghost" was illustrated with thirteen of Kitaj's paintings and two of his drawings, a design choice made with the understanding and approval of Roth, although he died before the book went into production. Signed by Author
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.