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Roth, Philip. THE ANATOMY LESSON. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, 1983.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of an undisclosed number of copies of this SIGNED limited edition published for members of "The Signed First Edition Society." Precedes the first trade edition. Includes an introductory "special message for the first edition" by Roth and portrait of him by Burt Silverman not in the Farrar Straus trade edition. Full gilt-decorated leather boards with raised spine bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and ribbon place marker. Fine. Publisher's promo letter laid in.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip.. THE ANATOMY LESSON.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$129.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 300 SIGNED, LIMITED EDITIONS - in SLIPCASE. Both the book and the slipcase are fine. Still in the original publisher s shrink-wrap.
Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine slipcase. Copy 107 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. THE ANATOMY LESSON. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncorrected PROOF COPY of the second of his Zuckerman novels. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Has editing marks and blacked out sentence on 5 pages and an erratum slip laid in providing revised text. First Edition. Very good copy, wrappers somewhat soiled. h25
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. The Anatomy Lesson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: see photo 1, book on the left. The Anatomy Lesson. 1983. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. SIGNED Limited Edition. Fine in black cloth in red cloth slipcase. #106 of 300 numbered & signed copies.; 295 pages. Fine with no dust jacket. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The third novel in Philip Roth's Zuckerman trilogy. Fine in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. THE ANATOMY LESSON (SIGNED). New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1983.
Price: US$193.83 + shipping
Description: Signed Second Printing, Presenation copy. Very good condition in very good plus unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by Roth to his friends, Joan & Julius (the writer Joan Aitken and the painter Julius Goldstein). The dust jacket shows signs of wear and is faded on the spine.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Roth, Philip. THE ANATOMY LESSON. Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1983.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue of 300 numbered copies signed by Roth on the limitation page. Copy #97. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. Roth's third Nathan Zuckerman novel.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson. Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), U.S.A., 1983.
Price: US$221.38 + 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. The Anatomy Lesson [Signed]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second printing. Presentation copy signed by Philip Roth at title page. Rare signed trade edition. Fine maroon cloth boards, gilt stamped spine titles and cover initials, fine. Pages fine. Grey endpapers. Dj fine; unclipped 14.95, protected in new, clear sleeve. Very attractive. Third installment in the Zuckerman trilogy. It is 1973 and Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who has lost the ability to create, attempts to console himself with women as he decides to abandon writing and become a doctor. A strangely comic novel of pratfalls and escapades. At forty, the writer Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest. 291 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First Printing. Signed by author on tipped in published note card on half title page. Unclipped DJ in archival cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Anatomy Lesson.. Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983.
Price: US$4800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of theÂthird novel from Roth to featureÂNathan ZuckermanÂas the main character. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Roth to his wife Claire Bloom on the title page, "To my dearest Claire- Who was there at Zuckerman's birth and has helped me see him through his fury. My love and my love and my love P. Oct. 1, '83." Roth first met Bloom in 1966, when they were both in earlier relationships. "To have such a mind as Philip Roth's fixed on your every word and gesture is both daunting and extremely flattering", she recalled of this first encounter. The couple finally began their relationship in 1975, and started living together at an early stage. An excellent example in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sigrid Spaeth. An exceptional association copy. Preceded by 1979's The Ghost Writer and 1981's Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a continuation of the story of Roth's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, who finds himself having just buried his father and facing middle age. Fellow novelist Martin Amis wrote of the book: "'The Anatomy Lesson' may be the third and final installment of the Zuckerman trilogy, but it is also Roth's second consecutive novel about what success is like. Such fixity! He has now written two autobiographical novels about the consequences of writing autobiographical novels," adding, "no modern writer, perhaps no writer, has taken self-examination so far and so literally." "The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book.lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions" (John Updike, The New Yorker).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.