Item #47812 Call It Sleep. Henry Roth.

Call It Sleep

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. SIGNED. 599pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] in dark red cloth with gilt-stamped spine, no jacket. Fine. Item #47812

Signed and inscribed by Roth on half-title: "To D--- P---, with best wishes, Henry Roth, Albq [Albuquerque] July 1990."

Roth's Depression-era novel met with a lukewarm reception when it was originally published in 1934, but enjoyed a critical resurgence beginning with its reprinting in the '60s. The coming-of-age story of a young Jewish immigrant to New York, "Call It Sleep" is now regarded as a modern masterpiece.

Price: $500.00

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