Philip Guston (1913-1980) a 1971 dated Newspaper caricature of Nixon along with an unbound master proof 2001 pre-publication copy of the eventual book with approx 75 illustrations. "In the summer of 1971, the artist Philip Guston and the writer Philip Roth were refugees of a sort in Woodstock, N.Y...the two men shared a love of books and of what Guston called “crapola”— billboards, diners, junk shops, burger joints — and Richard M. Nixon was soon added to the list. “He was a shared delight,” Mr. Roth recalled recently.
Please see the New York Times article about this work and its connection to Roth. https://nyti.ms/2dTvlEe the Guston is 6x5" unframed, the master proof sheets 11x17, in a museum quality archivally wrapped box 23" x 16" x 4"
23" x 16" x 4" D boxed

Property from the estate of Philip Roth. Philip Roth was born in Newark New Jersey on 19 March, 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood that he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.
In 1959, Roth published Goodbye Columbus - a collection of stories and a novella for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel Portnoy's Complaint brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America's finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman and a fictional narrator narrator named Philip Roth through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Roth's lasting contribution to literature was widely recognized in his lifetime, both in the United States and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama respectively.
Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previous.

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the Guston newspaper illustration has irregular handcut edges with small cuts and creases; the master proof pages have minor handling issues, but are clean without foxing or fading