“HE OPENED OUR UNIVERSE A LITTLE MORE. WE OWE HIM EVERYTHING”: FIRST EDITION OF MR. SAMMLER’S PLANET, SIGNED BY SAUL BELLOW
BELLOW, Saul. Mr. Sammler's Planet. New York: Viking, (1970). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of the novel that won Bellow the 1971 National Book Award, signed by him.
"It will be some time before we have the full measure of Saul Bellow's achievement," observed author Ian McEwan. Bellow "re-defined the novel… He opened our universe a little more. We owe him everything" (Guardian). Awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, Bellow won the 1971 National Book Award for this "fictive critique of modern society as seen by a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp" (Hart 65).
A fine signed copy.