Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first hardcover edition, second printing of Our Gang by Philip Roth in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1971 Random House. Second Printing with partial number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title inks on the square spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned .
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
Roth’s fifth novel; A political satire in the great tradition, an indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon, but one which resonates now with a character who speaks the sort of debased language that is designed, in the words of George Orwell, “to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”
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