The Victim.
First Edition of Saul Bellow’s Second Book, The Victim; Signed by Him
The Victim.
BELLOW, Saul.
$650.00
Item Number: 125877
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second book. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A Burgess 99 title.
Looking back at his first two novels later in his career, Bellow "distanced himself from them by calling Dangling Man his M.A. and The Victim his Ph.D." Like many of his works, the protagonist is a young Jewish man. In a New York heat wave he is accosted in the park by a stranger who accuses him of ruining his life. "The best novel to come out of America-or England-for a generation" (The New York Review of Books).
