Title: Call it Sleep Author: Roth, Henry Place: London Publisher: Michael Joseph Limited Date: [1963] Description: (8vo) original black cloth, dust jacket. First English Edition. The author's first book, first published in 1934, a story of Jewish immigrants in Brownsville and the Lower East Side of New York City from 1911 to 1913, which Alfred Kazin called "the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American." Rideout called Roth's book "the most distinguished single proletarian novel" (The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 186). This UK edition has a new foreword by Walter Allen. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket price clipped and just lightly worn; volume fine, jacket nearly so. Item number: 280749b
Title: Call it Sleep Author: Roth, Henry Place: London Publisher: Michael Joseph Limited Date: [1963] Description: (8vo) original black cloth, dust jacket. First English Edition. The author's first book, first published in 1934, a story of Jewish immigrants in Brownsville and the Lower East Side of New York City from 1911 to 1913, which Alfred Kazin called "the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American." Rideout called Roth's book "the most distinguished single proletarian novel" (The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 186). This UK edition has a new foreword by Walter Allen. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket price clipped and just lightly worn; volume fine, jacket nearly so. Item number: 280749b
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