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Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day - SIGNED. Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Top front corner bumped, spine ends pushed. Jacket slightly faded with the spine more so. Soiling to the jacket, wear to the edges and corners.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the Gabels with best wishes from an old exile to Evanston Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University, where he graduated with honors and earned bachelorâs degrees in anthropology and sociology. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' (Irish Times). "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' (New York Times). Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook, starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.. The Viking Press, New York, 1956.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the Gabels from their well-dressed friend (who in Italian silk, couldn't look less like a writer) with best wishes Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University, where he graduated with honors and earned bachelorâs degrees in anthropology and sociology. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon. ''Saul Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why'' (Irish Times). "It is the special distinction of Mr. Bellow as a novelist that he is able to give us, step by step, the world we really live each day--and in the same movement to show us that the real suffering of not understanding, the deprivation of light. It is this double gift that explains the unusual contribution he is making to our fiction'' (New York Times). Basis for the well received 1986 film directed by Fielder Cook, starring Robin Williams and Jerry Stiller.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.