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Roth Phillip. When She was Good. Random House, 1967.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book and dust jacket both have rubbing and toning overall. The jacket has brief bumps to the corners and spine ends. The book is signed by the author on the half-title. Photos on request. International shipping billed at cost. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Boards & Wraps, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: As-new copy of the Third Printing of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, signed in ink by the author on the title page here at Chartwell Booksellers.
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. WHEN SHE WAS GOOD [first edition, signed]. Random House: NY, 1967.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-lettered blue cloth, 306pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped, top edge of covers lightly sunned, unfortunately a water-stained copy on the lower portions of the covers and the first and last few pp in the lower margins, in an edge-worn, spine sunned dustjacket that is lightly waterstained at bottom of spine and front panel. SWAF. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE BY THE AUTHOR, PHILIP ROTH.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip.. When She Was Good.. Random House, 1967.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, not price-clipped. 306pp. SIGNED by Roth on an old-fashioned typed titled bookplate laid in. Roth's third book, and third novel. Q13964
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$310.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. DJ flap clipped on top but $5.95 price still present on flap. DJ lightly rubbed and has 1" closed tear on rear at spine. DJ mylar protected. SIGNED by Roth on bookplate affixed to half-title pagee (signature only). Author's third book after 'Goodbye, Columbus' and 'Letting Go'. Note: No International orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good.. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page in a contemporary signature. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. "High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges.as a Dreiser who can write" (Stanley Elkin). The literary critic Harold Bloom declared that "Roth is a living master" in The New York Review of Books.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. When She Was Good (Signed First Edition). Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half-title. Small patch of adhesive residue to the top right corner of the front endpaper, else Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. WHEN SHE WAS GOOD. Random House, NY, 1967.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first prnt. Signed by Roth in marker pen on verso of page listing his two previously published books (GOODBYE, COLUMBUS and LETTING GO). Red topstain faded, backstrip clothends minimally wrinkled; dustjacket with slight edgewear, mostly at the spine bottom edge. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good (Signed). Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the author's third book. Very good in black cloth with faint dampstain to front endpaper in very good price intact dustwrapper. This copy SIGNED by Roth and is quite uncommon thus. Signed by Author.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good.. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sept. 7, 1967 NYC To Jack Keeney- For the testimonial baquet- Philip Roth." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. "High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges.as a Dreiser who can write" (Stanley Elkin). The literary critic Harold Bloom declared that "Roth is a living master" in The New York Review of Books.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good.. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Christopher Lasch, with his name to the front free endpaper. Lasch was a historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled the "culture of narcissism." Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. "High, careful tragedy, nasty as life, and Roth emerges.as a Dreiser who can write" (Stanley Elkin). The literary critic Harold Bloom declared that "Roth is a living master" in The New York Review of Books.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good. Random House, New York, New York, 1967.
Price: US$537.63 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine Book & Fine Jacket, 1" corner chip to rear end page, else fine, no flaws to jacket, Signed First Edition First Print in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Philip Roth. When She Was Good. Random House, New York, 1967.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with shelfware at top edges and corners. Slight edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Signed bookplate by Roth pasted to half title page (COA included).ÊRed lettering on spine is slightly faded, otherwise book in Fine condition. When She Was Good is Philip Roth's only novel with a female protagonist.
Seller: Sam Barcelo, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good. Random House, New York, New York, 1967.
Price: US$860.20 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Jacket, Signed, First Edition First Print, no flaws,in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Roth, Philip. When She Was Good. Random House, 1967.
Price: US$1175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Slightest edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket; o/w F/NF; signed bookplate by Roth loosely laid in
Seller: Evergreen Books LLC, Lakewood, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt, metallic blue, red, and green on spine and front cover; pink topstain; dustjacket; [x],306,[4]pp. One of eight possible dedication copies, inscribed on the dedication page prior to publication to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie (appearing there under her married name, Alison Bishop): "New York, Feb. 1967 / To Alison For helping me over the hurdle of page 43 & other kindnesses / Fondly, Philip." Light wear to spine ends, gentle sunning to crown, with some faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, and some faint, scattered stains to upper margins of a few terminal leaves; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95), modest wear to extremities, with a few small tears and attendant creases, and a few faint spots of soil to spine ends and rear panel; Very Good+. Roth's third book, and his only novel with a female protagonist "a Midwestern girl who believes herself to be the moral superior of her family and friends, and how she and those around her are destroyed when she sets out to prove that in matters of right and wrong she is the ultimate authority" (from front flap). A significant association copy inscribed to Alison Lurie (1926-2020), winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the second of eight printed dedicatees noted by Roth. When Lurie was interviewed by Liz Lear in 1988 and asked if any other writers had been supportive of her work, or if there was one in particular to whom she owed a debt of gratitude, she mentioned Edward Hower, Diane Johnson, and Roth. "Philip Roth has also been most helpful. He read a number of my earlier books and his constructive criticism was invaluable" (Key West Review, Vol.1, No.1, Spring 1988). Roth was known for not inscribing books casually, and those with inscriptions of a close, meaningful nature, have never been plentiful.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.