Saul Bellow — Mr Sammler&Apos;S Planet

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Saul Bellow's award winning novel in the original dust wrapper. First UK edition of Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow in the original publisher's binding and unclipped dust wrapper.The novel won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1971 in the United States. The plot follows Holocaust survivor and intellectual Artur Sammler who observes how greater luxury and leisure has led to an increase in human suffering.Saul Bellows was a Canadian-American writer. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Medal of Arts. In the original publisher's cloth binding and dust wrapper. The dust wrapper has some slight wear to the extremities and a few very small tears. The binding only has some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.