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New York: Random House, 1967. 650 g; X, 310 pages, last three pages blank. In original photographic illustrated dust jacket. The top edge of the text book has been tinted a pale crimson by the publisher, and the front edge of the text block has not been trimmed. The front fold over flap of the dust jacket has three vertical creases, and there is rubbing to the fold over tips, and the top and bottom of the spine section of the dust jacket. Slight marking to the base edge of the text block from contact with the shelf. Otherwise quite presentable. "In the obsessed figure of Lucy, Philip Roth has created a contemporary character who may take her place in our literature alongside the heroines of Henry James and Theodore Dreiser. Expecting them to be strong and forceful on the one hand, and obedient to her on the other hand, Lucy vividly embodies the fears and fantasies of many 20th-century women. But perhaps and of even greater interest, her imagination is aflame with certain conventional American ideas and pieties about the nature of a good life. In her sense of what constitutes a family and marriage in love, she is both ordinary and pathological, bizarre and recognizable, and it is with mixed feelings of sympathy, pity and horror that the reader follows the dramatic story of this implacable young woman in her impassioned pursuit of moral perfection." -- from the fold over blurb.. Stated First Printing. Navy Blue Cloth. Good/Good -- Price Clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Novel.