May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ARION PRESS.) Roth, Henry. Call It Sleep. 48 photographic plates of New York City contemporary with the time period of the novel, from various sources. 4to, 1/4 gilt-lettered green morocco over pictorial cloth; scattered light and small areas of yellowish soiling to fore edges, affects a few margins; cloth slipcase. San Francisco, 1995

Additional Details

special hors de commerce copy. letter k of only 26 copies signed by roth after an edition of 300. Accompanying the book are copies of 2 letters of by the owner of this volume to Roth and his typed signed reply, thanking him for sending books and pamphlets, and discussing John Updike, Nathaniel West, as well as his and his wife's general declining health. 1 page, 8vo, folds. 17 December 1989.