Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Philip Roth. Operation Shylock (Signed First Edition). Simon and Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS
Seller: A. Richard Books and More, Washington DC, DC, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition 1st printing signed and inscribed, "To Jenn and Jayce". Shelf wear and edging to dust jacket. One inch tear on front right upper corner of dust jacket.
Seller: Windy City Books, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed and inscribed by author. "To Ken"
Seller: Windy City Books, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock A Confession. Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fourth printing neatly inscribed, signed, and dated 1996 by Roth. A very good copy.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing (complete number line). SIGNED by author on bookplate on front end page (signature only). $23.00 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. PEN/Faulkner Award winner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock (Signed 1st edition). Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition following a Franklin Library edition. Fine in about fine dw very slightly toned on the spine, warmly INSCRIBED on the blank page opposite the title page. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession (SIGNED). Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing (complete number line). SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). previous owners inscription on rear end page; remainder spakle on top; corners bumped; approx. 10 pages previously dog-earred. DJ has edge rubbing and a few small chips; "Autographed Copy" sticker on front. $23.00 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Laid-in is a original magazine review. PEN/Faulkner Award winner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 398 pages. Review copy with laid in slip and publicity sheet. Pen Faulkner Award winning novel from the author of "American Pastoral" and "Portnoy's Complaint." A clean and tight very near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Roth opposite the title page.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. SIGNED. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine unclipped dj
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. OPERATION SHYLOCK : A Confession. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Edge wear. Sticker and closed tear to front panel. Signed by Roth on title page. ; Signed.; 9.40 X 6.10 X 1.50 inches; 398 pages; Signed by Author.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Price: US$249.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Minor shelf wear. 1st ed/1st printing. Signed on title page (Signature only).
Seller: Windy City Books, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. OPERATION SHYLOCK: A CONFESSION - INSCRIBED. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, advance issue, one of an unstated number of copies specially bound from proof sheets for booksellers. Octavo (24.25cm); slate paper-covered boards and blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to front cover; [13],14-398,[2]pp. Briefly inscribed by Roth on the title page. A few tiny scuffs to backstrip, faint sticker residue to upper front cover, else Near Fine. Roth's sixteenth novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1994. The advance issue is ubiquitous, but we've seen very few signed or inscribed.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession [Signed]. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing - full number line. Flat signed by Philip Roth at title page. Dk. grey boards, grey leatherette spine wrap, silver spine titles, fine. Pages fine, no writing. Dj fine, clipped, protected in new, clear sleeve. Very attractive. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1994, Philip Roth's wry novel is about an American novelist who is an imposter posing as the real Philip Roth. His most ambitious and daring novel for many years, Operation Shylock is at once a real-life espionage thriller, an erotic obsession, the search for a Philip Roth "double", and a "confession" that tells the true story of Roth's recruitment for an intelligence mission by Israel's Mossad. The results are sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious, and always dramatic. 398 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 398pp. Blue/gray boards with paper label on the front panel. embossed gilt "Philip Roth" on the front panel. Advance Reader's copy from the uncorrected proof. A touch of handling, otherwise internally fine. Author's blue ink signature on the title page. "The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel, where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk and becomes involved in an intelligence missionthe "Operation Shylock" of the title. While in Israel, the narrator seeks out an impersonator who has appropriated his identitysharing the same facial features and name as Philip Roth and used this celebrity to spread 'Diasporism', a counter-Zionist ideology advocating the return of Israeli Jews to their European nations of exile. The ensuing struggle between this doppelgänger-like stranger and 'Roth', played against the backdrop of the Demjanjuk trial and the First Intifada, constitutes the book's primary storyline." Size: Octavo Limited Signed First Edition First Print.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. OPERATION SHYLOCK : A CONFESSION (SIGNED). Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Price: US$323.40 + shipping
Description: Signed First US Edition, Presentation Copy. Very good condition in very good unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by Roth to his dear friend Julius Goldstein (On his 75th birthday, to my dear old friend.). Also includes a card from Philip Roth and his wife, the English Actress Claire Bloom (For our dear friend - on his most impressive birthday - love Claire & Philip). Julius Goldstein was a painter, married to the writer Joan Aitken, both close friends of Philip Roth. Julius has written his name on the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is worn with small nicks and terars to the extremities.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Philip Roth. Operation Shylock: A Confession. Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, 1993.
Price: US$347.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, no flaws, Signed , first edition first print in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession.. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher. "One of Roth's grand inventions. [He is] a comic genius.a living master" (Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books). Operation Shylock won the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1994.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). First trade edition. Pristine copy, autographed by Roth.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock - 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A beautiful first trade edition (preceded by the privately published Franklin Library edition) in unread Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author Philip Roth; In his twentieth book , Philip Roth confronts his double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe. Operation Shylock is a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, a confession an the re-creation of his frightening and mysterious journey through the volatile Middle East; 8vo; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Advance copy of the first edition. Cloth and papercovered boards as issued, without dustwrapper. Fine. Laid in is an invitation for an autograph party for the book. Briefly Inscribed by the author. Published in advance of publication for booksellers. Unusual format for an advance copy. Winner of the 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession.. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Roth in the year of publication opposite the title page, "For Crisci - from his best library friend - Philip R April 1993." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher. "One of Roth's grand inventions. [He is] a comic genius.a living master" (Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books). Operation Shylock won the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1994.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. Operation Shylock: A Confession.. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1993.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Roth opposite the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher. "One of Roth's grand inventions. [He is] a comic genius.a living master" (Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books). Operation Shylock won the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1994.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip [Joan Didion]. Operation Shylock: A Confession. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Price: US$450.00 + 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. An advanced copy with a publicity sheet and an "advanced copy" card laid in. A fine book in a near fine jacket with light wear to corners and spine top and bottom, two one 1/8-inch tears and a small chip to rear panel outer 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.
Price: US$450.06 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Roth in the year of publication. In addition, this copy is SIGNED by Claire Bloom, Roth's former wife and the person to whom the book is dedicated. A clean, crisp copy that appears to be unread.
Seller: Bob's Rare Books, Haddonfield, NJ, U.S.A.