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Herzog
by Bellow, Saul (Signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Viking Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1964. 1st Edition Stated; First Printing. Hardcover. Book square and tight with no notes or any other names, top edge slight dusty. DJ not price clipped ($5.75) with minor wear at spine and top corners else VERY GOOD +; Flat signed by Bellow at title page. Not inscribed. ; 341 pages; CIP has"first published", beneath where numbers might appear are 3 letters, M B G ; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. His novel, Herzog, was the 1965 winner of the National Book Awards. The protagonist in this story is Moses Herzog; a middle-aged failed academic whose career, so brilliant in the beginning has now ended. He has written one celebrated scholarly book, but is having immense trouble producing another. He has been through two failed marriages and fathered two children. He agonizes over his condition with good reason because mentally and emotionally, he is having a nervous breakdown. He has conversations with dead philosophers telling them the points on which he disagrees. Herzog does love his children and tries to be with them, but mostly he is an absentee father. He obsessively writes letters that he never sends, while he contemplates his past two marriages, his academic career and his infidelities. An intense, outstanding novel written with precision and vivid characterizations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Enterprise Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55531
- Title
- Herzog
- Author
- Bellow, Saul (Signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition Stated; First Printing
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern 1st Edition;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- G
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- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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