Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1986. The Franklin Library edition, and true first edition. With a special introduction by Roth, consisting mostly of notes he wrote to himself during the time he was working on The Counterlife. Signed by the author. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine. Voted one of the best works of American fiction in a quarter century in a survey conducted by the New York Times Book Review. Of the 22 titles named in that survey, Roth was the author of six of them. [#911960] SOLD