New York: Random House.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Printed retail price of $6.95 on front flap, without evidence of clipping. Publication date of 2/69 printed on rear flap. Likely a later issue jacket. (Tiny nick at head of rear cover. Couple faint spots at edge of spine. No discoloration to spine on jacket. ) Author's celebrated FOURTH book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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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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Bookseller: Waverley Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3114430
Title: Portnoy's Complaint.
Author: Roth, Philip
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Random House.
Place of Publication: New York

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