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Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Printing. Signed. 214 pages. Published in 1988. The author's debut collection of essays originally written in English. One of Carlos Fuentes' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Carlos Fuentes' "Myself With Others: Selected Essays". Insightful, absorbing, and simply enjoyable essays originally written in English, the first - and only one - for a writer - and any other Latin-American writer - whose entire body of work is otherwise in Spanish. As such, it is the work of a Latin-American Master who is a true cosmopolitan. Dedicated to fellow writer Philip Roth (and his then-wife, the actress Claire Bloom), the essays recount the story of one writer's development, and evaluates the work of other writers and artists who have had an indelible influence on him. They include such masterpieces as "How I Started To Write", "How I Wrote One of My Books" (which reads like a detective story), "Borges In Action", "Gabriel Garcia Marquez And The Invention of America", "Luis Bunuel And The Cinema of Freedom", and his celebrated Harvard Commencement Address (Fuentes wrote many of the essays while he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University). With this collection, Carlos Fuentes proves, if proof were needed, that he is equally adept in the English language, as his idol Jorge Luis Borges was (who did not actually write a full book in English), and as very few other of his great Latin-American compatriot/writers were. Widely regarded as Mexico's man-of-letters, Fuentes was more erudite than most other Latin-American writers, with the notable exceptions of Octavio Paz and Mario Vargas Llosa. Readers - including Roberto Bolano, himself a Master of the Spanish language, but despaired ever learning English -, who have read him in the original, claim that his mastery of the Spanish language was next to none among Latin-American writers in its lucidity, elegance, and purity. He is highly regarded not just for his exquisite mastery of a very complex language, but also for his restless imagination and genuine wisdom. Carlos Fuentes died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 83. To his credit, President Felipe Calderon was one of the very first to announce and mourn his death, a gesture that would be completely unheard-of from any "patriotic" political leader in the United States, Democrat or Republican, especially when one considers that Fuentes was an unapologetic near-misanthrope and a vehement, ferocious, and despairing critic of his native Mexico. This fact is well-documented and includes, among other offensive behavior towards his fellow Mexicans, scolding and lashing out in public appearances at his adoring readers there. Still, Calderon was right to say that Fuentes' death was a loss to Mexico and to world literature. An absolute "must-have" title for Carlos Fuentes collectors. This title is a great collection. Laid-in is an extra, loose Dedication Page that is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen by the author: "And to Mary Margaret Read, in friendship, Carlos Fuentes 1989". The recipient was a fellow writer, one of the few human species that the misanthropic Fuentes respected, as his book will show. This is the only copy (with Signed Dedication Page) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize in 1987, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CARLOS FUENTES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374217505.
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: #85 of 250 signed and numbered copies. But fair condition only: Binding tight, gilt spine text bright, but moisture stain to bottom leading corner of book, throughout text block, and to slipcase (see photos). Still presents nicely on a shelf! No DJ inside slipcase, as issued. 195 pages.
Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988.
Price: US$119.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: US orders ship with insurance and signature confirmation where needed. 1988 Farrar hardcover stated 1st edition implicit 1st printing flatsigned by the author on the title page. Big dampstain on back dj and cover, weird stains on pages 138 and 147 (5 brown lines going down the page) , separation starting on half title page, some underlining, sunning on cover, binding tight .
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Trade Edition/2nd Printing. SIGNED by author on bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). $17.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. (Bonus: comes with a unsigned Franklin Library edition of Roth's novel "The Anatomy Lesson"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The first of Roth's two memoirs. Front board lightly bowed, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Trade Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). tiny stain on fore-edge. $17.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Laid-in is a memorial article for Roth from The New Yorker. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned hardcover 1st printing copy of Roth's novel "The Humbling"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1988.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. 195pp. Near fine with boards very slightly bowed, in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Advance Review Copy with publisher's materials laid in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ROTH, Philip. The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1988.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Facts. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1988.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The publisher's signed limited edition, one of only 250 signed by Roth and numbered by the publisher. Fine in publisher's slipcase. This is copy 188.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #14 of a limited edition of 250. Very good+ with light fading to slipcase edges and one slipcase corner bumped.
Seller: Bailey Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.35 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine Book i& Fine Jacket , fep shows discoloration, else fine, Signed in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition, one of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 119) SIGNED by the author. Fine, without a dust jacket as issued, in an about Fine example of the publisher's slipcase.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Facts. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1988.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: An exceptional numbered first edition, limited to 250 copies, this copy being #118 in As New condition in Very Fine slip-case, signed by author Philip Roth directly on the limitation page. An unparalleled Roth collectible; The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of Philip Roth, a writer who has reshaped our idea of fictiona work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art; 8vo; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1988.
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Crisp, bright, and clean except for a hint of shelf rubbing at the spine heel of the full cloth hard cover as well as three small, dark spots along the head edge of the publisher's original slipcase and gentle fading around the open edges; otherwise excellent. Limited edition signed by the author on a specially bound-in page following the front endpaper, numbered 182 (of 250). Too early to have ended postmodernism, this must have started it, for we all know Roth never did anything partway.; Signed by Author
Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1st Printing. Signed. 185 pages. Published in 1988. The author's debut memoir. Now considered a late-modern classic. Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by FSG: Regular-sized volume format. Orange cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Philip Roth. Matching cream cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography". His first memoir, about himself, followed and completed by "Patrimony: A True Story" (1991), about his father. In a lifetime of prodigious writing, there have been no more than ten Philip Roth Limited Editions in all, making each one of them eminently collectible. Surely, Roth deserved more, and were it not for his fraught relationship with FSG, he would have gotten more. Instead, he had to settle for Franklin Mint editions, which are strictly speaking, NOT Limited Editions because the limitation is never stated. "Reflections that stand on their own as perspicacious insights by a Master of fiction on one writer's beginnings, quest for freedom, and creative muses. Uninhibited, introspective, self-confrontational" (Publishers Weekly). "For the last half-century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and re-defined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assaults on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time" (Ross Miller). Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Philip Roth. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374152128.
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip.. THE FACTS.. Farrar, Straus & Giroux: NY, 1988.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Description: 9.25 x 6, cloth, 195 pp, vg in slightly soiled slipcase. FIRST ED, ONE OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY ROTH.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. THE FACTS. A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1988.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited issue of 250 numbered copies signed by Roth on the limitation page. Copy #86. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. Fine copy in a Fine slipcase.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.