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Assorted Prose
by Updike, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Signed by Updike on one of the front free endpapers. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally toned. Yellow cloth, heavily foxed, with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a brown top stain, clean internally. A collection of Updike's nonfiction prose written the previous decade, with topics including Ted Williams, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Muriel Spark, Max Beerbohm, among others.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6527
- Title
- Assorted Prose
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Literary Ciriticsm, Essays, 20th Century Literature, Pop Culture, American Literature, Russian Literature, Baseball, Culture
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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