NY. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (c1977). HARDCOVER.. VG+/VG+ dj. (light endpaper foxing, covers & text clean/bright. jacket complete/clean/crisp, front flap creased) Small 8vo. vi. + 266pp. Gilt lettered, red cloth covers. Not a remainder or book club. Second Printing, 1977 so stated. Endpapers lightly foxed, top edge tint faded else covers & text clean/tight/bright. No writings, no spine creases. Jacket complete/clean/crisp, front panel creased, no tears.

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In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

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Seller: Booktopia (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 3121314
Title: The Professor of Desire. [hardcover]
Author: Roth, Philip
Format/Binding: HARDCOVER.
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG+ dj. (light endpaper foxing, covers & text clean/bright. jacket complete/clean/crisp, front flap creased)
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374237565
ISBN 13: 9780374237561
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Place of Publication: NY.
Date Published: (c1977).
Pages: vi. + 266pp.
Keywords: 20th Century American Literature Novels Fiction Philip Roth
Size: Small 8vo.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
VG+/VG+: A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly better than Very Good Condition. Very...
Remainder: Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...