Philip Roth

Inscribed first edition; soft backed copy with signs of typical shelf wear; cover age toned to spine and edges; text block likewise age toned; inscribed by the author to the title page ‘for Alistair with love Hermione September 1983’. 95 pp. From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic.

Dame Hermione Lee is a British biographer, literary critic and academic. She is a former President of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a former Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.