PHILIP ROTH. — Goodbye, Columbus. (SIGNED)

Andre Deutsch Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 157pp. A variant issue in red cloth rather than the usual blue. The backstrip cloth lightly faded, and with the remnants of some kind of label or plate to the rear pastedown. A very minor slant to the binding and a small ink mark to the lower edge. A very good copy in probably supply pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped (10s 6d) but with just a trace of toning to the rear panel, the tiniest hint of wear to the spine panel ends, and a small area of light discolouration to the base of the front panel. The author's first book, and quite distinct from the more common US edition in that it contains the title novella only, omitting the short stories (a distinction few cataloguers appear to have noticed)., Very Good, Very Good