Midpoint and Other Poems
by Updike, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Date and place in ink on front endpaper. The jacket has a small closed tear at the top of the rear gutter, and the spine is just slightly sunned. The author's third poetry collection, a tight and square copy.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania; he attended Harvard College and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts in Oxford, England. From 1955 to 1957 he was a staff member of The New Yorker , to which he has contributed stories, essays, and poems. He is the author of five novels and lives with his wife and four children in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000466
- Title
- Midpoint and Other Poems
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- NY: Knopf, 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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