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Roth's Call It Sleep, Signed copy
Roth's Call It Sleep, Signed copy
Item Details
Description
Heading:
Author: Roth, Henry
Title: Call It Sleep
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Robert O. Ballou
Date Published: 1935
Description: 599 pp. (8vo) publisher‘s cloth, pictorial jacket, custom drop-back case. Printed by The Maple Press. First Edition, second printing.Signed by Roth at the half-title page. Second printing of the author‘s first book, a story of Jewish immigrants in Brownsville and the Lower East Side of New York City from 1911 to 1913, which Alfred Kazin called “the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American.“ Rideout called Roth‘s book “the most distinguished single proletarian novel“ (The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 186). Scarce signed.
Condition
Jacket with some chips, jacket and cloth edgeworn and spine darkened; hinges badly shaken, bookplate and owner marks, occasional stains and chips to leaves; good in like jacket.
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Roth's Call It Sleep, Signed copy

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