Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth. First Edition First Printing in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1981 Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. First Printing 1981, stated.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on the spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong 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.
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky, but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if ‘target’ may be more than a figure of speech. In Zuckerman Unbound – the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound – the notorious novelist retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother…and all because of his great good fortune.
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