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(Lewisburg), Press of Appletree Alley, 1995. A fine press limited edition of a story that first appeared in The Partisan Review in 1986. Copy No. 138 of 195 numbered copies, signed by the author. An uncommon edition: although the stated limitation was 195, the press was selling unbound copies a couple of years after the initial publication date, suggesting that not all of the sets of sheets were bound. Fine in quarter leather, burgundy cloth boards, in a fine slipcase. The nicest edition done of one of Roth's works. [#911247] $850

(NY), (Push Pin Studios), (1974). Issued as Push Pin Graphic 59. Roth, on Kafka, with illustrations by Milton Glaser. 9" x 12"; 12 unnumbered pages; near fine in stapled wrappers. The first separate edition of this story, which had appeared in American Review 17 in 1973, without the Milton Glaser illustrations. Glaser was one of the principals of the Push Pin Studio and press. No copies in OCLC. [#036241] $350

NY, Vintage, (1998). The advance reading copy of the Vintage edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and one of the series of award-winning novels Roth published in the 1990s that, by general critical consensus, surpassed anything he had done before and elevated him to the front rank of American novelists, and a legitimate candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fine in wrappers. [#911982] $50

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). The uncorrected proof copy of this winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and Time magazine's Book of the Year; also voted one of the best works of American fiction in a quarter century in a New York Times Book Review survey. Fine in wrappers. [#911970] $50

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2004. The advance reading copy. An "alternate history" novel, which imagines a pro-Nazi Charles Lindbergh defeating Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. Fine in wrappers. Together with an audio CD on which Roth reads an excerpt from Chapter 1. Fine. [#911998] $50

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). The uncorrected proof copy. Spine a bit faded, else fine in wrappers. [#911950] $50

London, Jonathan Cape, (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of the British edition. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. Fine in wrappers. [#911991] $40

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1990). Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911966] $35

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1998. The advance reading copy. A novel set in the McCarthy era, and the second book in the trilogy that includes American Pastoral and The Human Stain. Fine in wrappers. [#911986] $35

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. The advance reading copy. Winner of the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers. [#911975] $35

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2001. The advance reading copy. A novel featuring professor David Kepesh, who first appeared in Roth's novella, The Breast, in 1973 and again in his novel The Professor of Desire. Front cover splayed, else fine in wrappers. [#911996] $35

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1988). His autobiography. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911963] $35

Cambridge, Modern Occasions, 1970. Includes Roth's "Salad Days," a 20-page story. Foxing to covers, spine slanted; about very good. [#036110] $20

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1981). Proof dust jacket for this novel featuring Nathan Zuckerman, one of Roth's fictional alter egos. Front cover and spine printed; rear cover and flaps blank. 19-3/8" x 8-1/4"; folded at the rear spine folded; else fine. [#019717] $20

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1972). Very Good in Good DJ. [#708722] $20

London, Jonathan Cape, (1981). Very Good in Good DJ. [#708719] $20