Call it Sleep

by Henry Roth

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition of his first book. v, i , 1 -599 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Near fine copy in the scarce first state dust jacket chipped, spine panel defective with loss of bottom third and partial loss of title at head by Stuyvesant Van Veen. Booklabel of Abraham Pascal and Marcie Kanner laid in. Item #41593 Roth's novel of ghetto life on the Lower East Side of New York was hailed as a modernist

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