Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Roth, Philip. THE HUMBLING. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston, 2009.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 x 5", cloth backed boards, 140pp, old bookstore stamp on rear blank else a nice, clean copy in a like dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PHILIP ROTH, ON TITLE PAGE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. The Humbling. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 2009.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Roth on the title page.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. The Humbling (Signed First Edition). Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2009.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The third novel in the "Nemeses" series. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Humbling. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2009.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2009. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Both book and dust jacket are fine.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Humbling - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2009.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author Philip Roth directly on the title page. With small stamp of NY bookstore of signing event in the back; Philip Roth's 30th book is the third in a quartet. Like the two preceding short novels, "Everyman," and "Indignation," "The Humbling" is deeply melancholy. The tale focuses on Simon Axler, renowned actor who has lost his gifts. His wife leaves him, he is briefly institutionalized, and after he is released, he falls into a spiritless routine when he meets a younger woman and is recharged, even hopeful; 8vo; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Humbling (SIGNED). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., 2009.
Price: US$130.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing. SIGNED by Roth. An outstanding copy - clean and unread.
Seller: Bob's Rare Books, Haddonfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Humbling. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2009.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: As new, unread fine book in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Not price clipped, no marks or tears. 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. The Humbling (Signed). Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2009.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fine first edition in dustwrapper. A short, 140 pp novel by the author of The Ghost Writer and Letting Go. Bookstore stamp to the second to last rear endpaper, else a fine copy. SIGNED by Roth on the title page.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Humbling. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, U.S.A., 2009.
Price: US$158.13 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, no flaws, Signed , First Print, in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Humbling - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2009.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author Philip Roth directly on the title page. Without dreaded bookstore stamp; Philip Roth's 30th book is the third in a quartet. Like the two preceding short novels, "Everyman," and "Indignation," "The Humbling" is deeply melancholy. The tale focuses on Simon Axler, renowned actor who has lost his gifts. His wife leaves him, he is briefly institutionalized, and after he is released, he falls into a spiritless routine when he meets a younger woman and is recharged, even hopeful; 8vo; Signed by Author
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Printing. Signed. 145 pages. Published in 2009. The author's twenty-sixth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. 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 Philip Roth's "The Humbling". The third in Philip Roth's "Nemeses" cycle of short novels, which includes "Everyman" (2006), "Indignation" (2008), and "Nemesis" (2010). A meditation on (and confrontation of) life-as-performance, that is, as humbling performance. A legendary actor feels his once-formidable powers suddenly deserting him and goes through a late-life, epic crisis. Roth writes what amounts to a spare and unsparing examination of the self. Throughout his entire oeuvre and especially so in his Late Period, Philip Roth's narratives on the vitality/mortality theme are "told with inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity; all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances - talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation - are stripped off" (Publisher's blurb). In this sense, he (and the Rothian universe) reminds us, dare one say it, of both Shakespeare and Ingmar Bergman. 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 copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. 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 0547239696.
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Humbling.. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2009.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Roth's 30th book, concerning "an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a 'counterplot of unusual erotic desire'." Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page and signed by legendary artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. It is the basis for the 2014 filmdirected by Barry Levinson and written by Buck Henry and Michal Zebede, starring Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Dianne Wiest, Charles Grodin and Kyra Sedgwick.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.