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Lot 203
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
Lots Close
Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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200
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$63
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Lot Description
ROTH, Philip (1933-2018). Portnoy’s Complaint. New York: Random House, 1969.
8vo. Original cloth; publisher’s dust jacket (spine sunned, some rubbing and creasing).
FIRST EDITION, in later printing dust jacket. Portnoy’s Complaint attracted a great deal of criticism and was even banned in many libraries across the United States for its explicit language; it was later adapted into a 1972 motion picture of the same name starring Richard Benjamin.