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Bech : A Book by UPDIKE, John
- Bookseller: Mainly Fiction
 (NZ)
- Seller Inventory #: 000653
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: Second Impression
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0233962700
- ISBN 13: 9780233962702
- Publisher: Andre Deutsch
- Place: London
- Date published: 1970
- Pages: 206
Description
London: Andre Deutsch, 1970. Green boards with gilt titles. Name in front(under dj flap). Dust jacket is intact but has 2 inch angled tear to bottom of front panel.. Second Impression. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Book summary
This is John Updike's original volume of stories about his alter ego, Henry Bech, who in many ways is as unlike Updike as it's possible to be (Jewish, short, unmarried, and a failure who suffers from writer's block). Updike, however, finds his way inside Bech's mind, and gives us a hero who is very real, zanily hilarious, and (despite everything) utterly lovable.
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