Collected Stories.

BELLOW, Saul; Introduction by James Wood; Foreword by Janis Bellow.

Item Number: 4188

New York: Viking Press, 2001.

First edition of the author’s last collection of stories published during his lifetime. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper in Brattleboro, Vermont in the year of publication. Rare signed as Bellow did not engage in book signings at this point.

A collection of stories which includes: "The Bellarosa Collection", "A Theft", "Mosby's Memoirs", "Him with His Foot in His Mouth", and "Something to Remember Me By", among others. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler’s Planet, in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellow’s oeuvre [as] both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary."