“I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting;” or, Looking at Kafka

by Philip Roth, Milton Glaser, Franz Kafka

$650 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

New York: Push Pin Studio, 1974. Side-stapled volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: 16, wrappers included in pagination . Four full-page illustrations printed in brown. Light soiling to wrappers, staples rusted. First separate edition of Philip Roth’s experimental short story, in which Franz Kafka does not die young of tuberculosis, but instead escapes to Newark, New Jersey to teach Hebrew to schoolboys during the

• Binding: Wrappers

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