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Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire: A Novel [Signed]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Flat signed by Philip Roth at title page. Red leatherette boards, gilt stamped cover initials and spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Deckled pages fine. Dj slight wear; front flap states BCE, protected in new clear sleeve. Original first edition jacket design w/Philip Grausman ebony and silver sculpture. Very attractive. As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes". Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be--or how damning. For as we follow Kepesh into the wilderness of erotic possibility, we discover an intelligent and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure. 181 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1977.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small stain bottom edges else a lovely copy in dust jacket, inscribed in the year of publication and signed Philip on the front endpaper.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1977.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). $8.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st printing hardcover copyof Roth's novel "The Breast"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire (SIGNED). Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1977.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on front end page (signature only). DJ lightly soiled on rear and spine is lightly sunned. $8.95 price present on on DJ flap. DJ mylar protected. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st printing hardcover copy of Roth's novel "Everyman"). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire. Farrar Straus & Giroux, U.S.A., 1977.
Price: US$347.88 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, no flaws, First Edition First Print, Signed in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE -First American Edition-. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1977.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: As-new copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, signed in ink on the title page by the author here at Chartwell Booksellers. Virtually mint.
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half-title. The second Kepesh novel. Faint offsetting on the front endpaper, else Fine in an about Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. The second Kepesh novel. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. The Professor of Desire.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1977.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected proof of the first edition of Roth's second book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh. Quarto, original wrappers. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. With a photograph of Roth signed by him. In fine condition. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. An uncommon proof. The Professor of Desire follows protagonist David Kepesh, who moves between a life of scholarship and carnal adventure. "A thoughtful.elegant novel. A fine display of literary skills." (The New York Times Book Review).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.