The Same Door
by John Updike
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-052: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. 242 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (scuff present to the front panel; chip presen to the heel of the spine). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Lighting toning present to the text block. Text is free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelfwear present. The title of John Updikes first short story collection, published when the author was twenty-seven, alludes to the old superstition that you should enter and leave a house by the same door. Thus John Nordholm, the alternately shy and brash hero of the first story here, is also the narrator of the last. E-52; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56187
- Title
- The Same Door
- Author
- John Updike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- E-052
- Date Published
- 1959
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.