The true first edition is the Franklin Library "Signed First Edition." It is a leather bound edition limited to 1,350 copies.
The first trade edition ranges in value from $75 to $300.
American Pastoral book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
To find the market value for this book, click on the pre-filled eBay, AbeBooks, or Biblio links to the right and look for comparable listings that have all of these first edition points.
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 | This is the Franklin Library "Signed First Edition." |  | Signature of Philip Roth from the Franklin Library Signed First Edition of American Pastoral. |  | The photos to the left and below are from the first trade edition, which is not very common in a first printing. |  | |  | |  | |
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