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Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
by Updike, John
- Used
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- About Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679450580
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450580
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. About Fine/Very Good. 201 pp. Octavo. Hardcover. Book Condition: about fine. V. light signs of handling. Dust Jacket condition: front panel shows superficial shelf wear, light wear to extremities.
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
- DuBois Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 000958
- Title
- Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - About Fine
- Jacket condition
- Very Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679450580
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450580
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 1996
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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...[more]
- shelf wear
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- octavo
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- jacket
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- fine
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