Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth - 1995

NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. SIGNED. Like New- Unread. 1st/1st. First edition, first printing with complete number line ending in 1. Signed by Roth on the title page. Unread book is tight and square with sharp corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock has a red pen mark on top of half-title page (see photos) otherwise clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped (24.95) and pristine with "autographed" sticker on back - but NO National Book Award Winner sticker. Crisp and bright copy with an increasingly uncommon signature. Protected in a Brodart cover.

Morris "Mickey" Sabbath a lustful egomaniac was once a notorious puppeteer, whose "Indecent Theater" performances evinced "an unseemly, brilliantly disgusting talent." Now aged 64 Mickey vacillates between clinging to life and preparing for death. No writer since Henry Miller has depicted sex as the driving force of life with such a scintillating combination of wit and heat. Roth here creates one of contemporary fiction's great characters--and manages the Herculean feat of containing him in a savage, spectacular novel that may well be his best.