The Humbling.
First Edition of Philip Roth's The Humbling; Signed by Him and Legendary Artist Milton Glaser
The Humbling.
ROTH, Philip.
$400.00
Item Number: 138184
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of Roth’s 30th book, concerning “an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a ‘counterplot of unusual erotic desire’.” Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page and signed by legendary artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
It is the basis for the 2014 filmdirected by Barry Levinson and written by Buck Henry and Michal Zebede, starring Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Dianne Wiest, Charles Grodin and Kyra Sedgwick.