Bellow, Saul. HUMBOLDT'S GIFT. SIGNED PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. New York: The Viking Press (1975). First edition, SIGNED by the author. His Pulitzer Prize winner. Anthony Burgess, in his NINETY-NINE NOVELS: THE BEST IN ENGLISH SINCE 1939, says of his selection of HUMBOLDT'S GIFT for inclusion, "this novel probably confirmed Bellow's fitness for the Nobel Prize. It is in competition with Herzog as the best of Bellow's extended fiction." When awarded the Pulitzer Prize it was said of Bellow: He was "the most distinguished novelist of the post-war period in America" (Vinson, 124); it was he alone who "managed brilliantly, in the words of Philip Roth, 'to close the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon.' In doing so, he capture a huge slice of American life giving new immediacy to the American novel" (New York Times). Fine in lightly soiled yellow cloth and dust jacket. Bookmark from the Chicago 1st Edition Circle laid in.
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