The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth [FIRST EDITION] 1979 • 2nd Print • FSG • *Bindery Error

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth [Zuckerman Bound #1]

FIRST EDITION [1979] FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX

Second Printing / 1979.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition with flaws.

Dust jacket shows a few small sealed tears, scratches and worn edges.  Otherwise, clean, bright and in tact.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector. 

Book itself features a rare bindery error.  Boards are reversed and upside down.

Small blemish to cloth on front boards.  Inside reads like new. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of Amy's haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusions...