Condition Report
Contact Information
Auction Specialists
Lot 149
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
Own a similar item?
Estimate
$200 -
300
Price Realized
$260
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[FINE PRESS - ARION PRESS]. ROTH, Henry (1906-1995). Call it Sleep. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1995.
4to. Original quarter morocco; slipcase. Publisher's prospectus laid in
LIMITED EDITION, number 267 of 300 copies. SIGNED BY ROTH. Call It Sleep was originally published in 1934 and was hailed as a "modernist masterpiece." Despite this, the book sold poorly and was out of print for nearly thirty years before being reviewed in The American Scholar in 1960 as "one of the most neglected books of the past twenty-five years." It has since been hailed as a classic work of both American and Jewish literature.
This lot is located in Chicago.
