PHILIP ROTH.. The Prague Orgy. A novella. (SIGNED). Jonathan Cape, London, 1985.

Price: US$258.72 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The first separate edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 89pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny hint of toning to the paperstock, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An epilogue to the 'Zuckerman Unbound' trilogy, this novella was first published in the US as part of the omnibus edition 'Zuckerman Bound' (1985). This English edition, issued the same year, was the first separate printing. The work was not published separately in the US until the Vintage paperback issue of 1996. Uncommon with the author's signature.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Roth, Philip. Prague Orgy.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1985.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this novella by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lilly Lee. "Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth, a kind of coda to all his fiction so far" (Harold Bloom, The New York Times Book Review).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.