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The Poorhouse Fair
by Updike, John
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Media, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover/ DJ (price-clipped); Fine/ Near Fine condition. First Edition Thus (new edition w/ intro. by author), c. 1977- same year on title page; 1st printing- no note of further ones. Knopf borzoi logo blindstamp in corner of back cover. DJ (in mylar protector- looks great) is Near Fine to Fine; bright, glossy & clean w/ little to no use- maybe a trace of edge wear. Book is Fine to New. Maroon cloth binding is tight, bright, clean & square w/ no wear. NO bumps, rubs, fray or sun. All gold & silver lettering on cover & spine crisp & intact. Text is tight, bright, clean, unmarked. NO owner names, notes, etc.; NOT ex library or remainder. Very handsome, well preserved copy- both DJ & book display very well. ***Reliable, fast! (11ah)
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
- EDM Book Loft
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 352
- Title
- The Poorhouse Fair
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
Terms of Sale
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Media, Pennsylvania
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- Tight
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- Fine
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- Bumps
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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