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197686448New York: The Viking Press 1976. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's account of his journey to Jerusalem. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication "To Mr. Bergstrom who asks excellent questions Chicago Nov 1 76 Saul Bellow." The recipient was journalist Goran Bergstrom. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Photographs by Albert Margolies. This extraordinary book is the result of Saul Bellow's sojourn in Israel in 1975. A personal record of his stay-his experiences and impressions-as well as a meditation it crackles with wit and controversy on America's relationship with this embattled country. Using quick sketches and vignettes Bellow captures the personal opinions passions and dreams of several Israelis and he also adds to these his own reflections on being Jewish in the 20th century. The varying viewpoints of those he encounters and interviews offer a revealing look at the history and challenges of Israel and Bellow's passionate storytelling draws listeners in to share in his experience. The Viking Press hardcover books
1970283070New York: Viking 1970. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo cloth backed boards d.w. N.Y: Viking 1970. First Edition.<br/><br/> Winner of the National Book Award. Fine in a near fine price intact dust wrapper. Presentation copy " For Mel with infinite thanks for his beautiful designs Affectionately Saul". Mel Williamson designed the dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
194496384New York: The Vanguard Press 1944. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo original beige cloth. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket that shows some chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. "One of the most honest pieces of testimony on the psychology of a whole generation who have grown up during the Depression and the war" Edmund Wilson The New Yorker. The Vanguard Press hardcover books
19842038New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1984. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo original yellow wrappers. Association copy inscribed by the author to friend and fellow high school classmate "For Abel Savitsky for old times sake Tuley gym! Saul." In good condition. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Harper & Row Publishers unknown books
1968225819New York: Viking 1968. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Thin 8vo cloth d.w. New York: Viking 1968. First Edition.<br/><br/> Inscribed on the title page to his editor: " For Aaron Asher & Linda with all best from Saul".<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
1947125877New York: The Vanguard Press 1947. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second book. Octavo original black cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A Burgess 99 title. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" The New York Review of Books. The Vanguard Press hardcover books
19642105019Viking Press 1964. first. hardcover. fine/very good. Signed first edition first published in 1964 sated on copyright page. Signed by author on front free end paper. Book fine previous owner's small stickers attached to front pate-down and front free end paper. Dust jacket very good some wear tanning along top of flaps water stain along edge of front flap visible also on inside of dj. Housed in custom-made cloth slipcase. Viking Press unknown books
19701786New York: The Viking Press 1970. First edition of the author's third National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Alderman and Lois Stone from an old Tulyite Saul Bellow March 16' 87." The recipient was Bernard and Lois Stone the former a politician from the city of Chicago. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the spine. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." The Viking Press hardcover books
1965118261London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1965. First British edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For Sally S. from S. Bellow Best wishes Oct 10 '91 Chicago Ill." The recipient British photojournalist Sally Soames worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin Margaret Atwood Margaret Thatcher Sean Connery Rudolf Nureyev Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames who was known to be a warm and personal journalist performed extensive research on the subjects of her photographs and developed intimate rapports with them during her process resulting in intimate and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph she captured the creative energy and personality of some of the world's most gifted authors poets and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime Manpower 1987 with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers 1995 with a preface by Norman Mailer. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Griffiths. A novel complex compelling absurd and realistic Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. "A masterpiece" The New York Times. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best novels in the English language since Time's founding in 1923. Weidenfeld & Nicholson hardcover books
1970184New York: The Viking Press 1970. First edition of the author's third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamsom. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." The Viking Press hardcover books
194764666First Edition In Dust Jacket BELLOW Saul. The Victim. New York: The Vanguard Press Inc. 1947. First edition. Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm. 8 1-294 2 blank pp. Original full black cloth blue lettering on spine. Top edge blue fore-edge uncut. With original pictorial dust jacket. Sight foxing to endpapers and inner flaps of the dust jacket. Back panel of the dust jacket with a small closed tear. Otherwise near fine. This authorÃs first two books Dangling Man and The Victim 1947 had a profound impact on the mid-twentieth century literary scene. ìTogether they effectively introduced a new style of American fiction. The ìGentileî era of Fitzgerald Hemingway and Faulkner began with Bellow to give way to a new Jewish tradition and a sense of moral and social alarm. BellowÃs characters are generally anti-heroes caught up in the existential dilemma of trying to define themselves with some measure of dignity despite the constant impediments of objective and subjective circumstances.î BenetÃs The ReaderÃs Encyclopedia fourth edition. Bellow is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for HumboltÃs Gift 1975 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. HBS 64666. $750 The Vanguard Press, Inc. hardcover books
1946190London: John Lehmann 1946. First British edition of the author's first book. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Robert Medley. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." John Lehmann hardcover books
195328407New York: The Viking Press 1953. Fourth printing 8vo pp. 6 536; original black and gray cloth stamped in orange on upper cover and spine top edge stained orange; dust-jacket chipped at top of spine along top edge and at top outer corner never any loss of letterpress else very good. This copy inscribed: "To Phil Miller in him I didn't specially try to recruit with affection and good wishes Saul Bellow." Winner of the National Book Award. <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
1953119428New York: The Viking Press 1953. First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles to the spine raised bands gilt ruled to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. The Adventures of Augie March comes on stage with one of literature's most famous opening lines. "I am an American Chicago born and go at things as I have taught myself free-style and will make the record in my own way: first to knock first admitted." Bellow quickly found a receptive audience for his new energetic style. The critic Irving Howe took note of Bellow's "free style" manner calling it "the first major new style in American prose fiction since those of Hemingway and Faulkner." This novel went on to win the National Book Award for 1954. Both Time magazine and the Modern Library Board named it one of the hundred best novels in the English language. The Viking Press hardcover books
19471961New York: The Vanguard Press 1947. First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo original black cloth. Signed twice by the author. Signed "good wishes Saul Bellow" on the title page and again on a notecard on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing near fine in the original dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine. Looking back at his first two novels later in his career Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" The New York Review of Books. The Vanguard Press hardcover books
1964107467New York: The Viking Press 1964. First edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by the author on the title page "Best Wishes Saul Bellow Philadelphia March 3 1968." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. A novel complex compelling absurd and realistic Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964. In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century. He responds to his personal crisis by sending out a series of letters to all kinds of people. The letters in total constitute a thoughtful examination of his own life and that which has occurred around him. What emerges is not always pretty but serves as gritty foundation for this absorbing novel. "A masterpiece" The New York Times. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best novels in the English language since Time's founding in 1923. The Viking Press hardcover books
1975194New York: The Viking Press 1975. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Saul Bellow to the poet R.P. Dickey. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of shelfwear. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. Humboldt's Gift is a self-described "comic book about death" whose title character is modeled on the lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine an intellectual middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher a dead poet who had been his mentor and Rinaldo Cantabile a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end Charlie has managed to set his own course. The Viking Press hardcover books
1975911160NY: Viking. 1975. His eighth novel winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the title published just before he received the Nobel Prize. Also nominated for the National Book Award. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf done for Kroch's and Brentano's First Edition Circle. Fine in a fine dust jacket -- bright unworn and unfaded. A poorly manufactured volume which is perfectbound and uses cheap paper making attractive copies of this title much scarcer than one would expect. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Viking hardcover books
196625Paris: Maeght Editeur 1966. Limited Edition. Limp boards in slip case. Near fine/very good. Number 149 of a limited edition of 300 with original lithograph signed and numbered by Steinberg laid in. French language. Text by Michel Butor and Harold Rosenberg photographs by D'Inge Morath. Oblong 4to. Pictorial dust jacket over limp boards in acetate sleeve. Unpaginated. Numerous full page illustrations the majority in color by Steinerg.Small loss to top edge of acetate sleeve otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Original slip case in very good condition. Maeght Editeur books
1944108092Vanguard 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. Except for a tiny soil spot at the bottom inside edge of the back cover and a closed tear in the bottom margin of one page this is a very near fine and quite clean and fresh copy of this fragile book in a very good fust jacket that shows minimal chipping at spinal extremities rubbing along back spine edge and a tear in the middle of the front jacket flap. Original price of $2.50 still on front flap of jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Vanguard hardcover books
19595561New York: The Viking Press 1959. First edition of Bellow's fourth book. Octavo original half cloth. Inscribed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few closed tears. Jacket painting by Bill Preston. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellow's oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary." Henderson the Rain King was named one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century by Modern Library. The Viking Press hardcover books
1953140938331New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing first state with orange topstain. Bound in publisher's grey and black cloth with decorations and titles stamped in orange. Fine with corners lightly bumped in a Near Fine first state dust jacket with publisher's original price of $4.50 and advert for The Short Novels of John Steinbeck on the rear flap and no reviews with light edge wear. A beautiful copy in unusually nice condition. The Viking Press unknown books
198722016New York: Simon and Schuster 1987. First edition early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "For Richard A. Ware One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully Allan Bloom September 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Stamp of the Earhart Foundation on the front free endpaper crossed out near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Books signed by Bloom are rare. The Closing of the American Mind is brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep so witty and so thoughtful so outrageous and so sensible so amusing and so chilling. . . . An extraordinary book" William Kristol The Wall Street Journal. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1944WRCLIT53574New York: Vanguard Press 1944. Cloth. Faint darkening to spine and endsheets edges a bit dusty marked otherwise a very good copy in corner-worn somewhat rubbed dust jacket with shallow chips at head and toe of spine a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel and a diagonal panel of sun-fading to the lower panel. First edition of the author's first book. HANNA 38. Vanguard Press hardcover books
1975100951New York: The Viking Press 1975. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "To Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz -- the homage of letters to justice Best wishes Saul Bellow June 3 1982." The recipient Abraham Marovitz was a famed Chicago attorney and long-time powerful United States District Court judge. Both Bellow and Marovitz were Lithuanian Jews Bellow born in Canada Marovitz in the United States who knew each other well as fellow notable Chicagoans. His inkstamped "From the Library of Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz" on the front pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. An exceptional presentation. Humboldt's Gift is a self-described "comic book about death" whose title character is modeled on the lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine an intellectual middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher a dead poet who had been his mentor and Rinaldo Cantabile a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's creative spirit. Rinaldo Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit. At the novel's end Charlie has managed to set his own course. The Viking Press hardcover books
