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A Month of Sundays - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394497325
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497327
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Leather. 0394497325 . A wonderful special first edition/first printing, limited to 450 copies, this being out of series. Unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, encased in about Fine, slightly sunned publisher's slip case. SIGNED by the author John Updike directly on the limitation page. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number; John Updike's account of Reverend Tom Marshfield, literate, charming, sexual, whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his flock scandalizes his parish. An exerpt from this book originally appeared in Playboy magazine; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20567
- Title
- A Month of Sundays - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394497325
- ISBN 13
- 9780394497327
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Betty Anderson, John Updike, American Novelist Short Story Writer Art Critic Poet Literary Critic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Updike, John;
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