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Andre Deutsch. This is a first British edition of this 'Bech' novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Updike, published by Andre Deutsch in 1983. The book measures approx. 22 x 15 cms (9" x 6") and has 195 pages. The condition of the dusjacket/book is, in my opinion, very good/very good. The dustjacket is complete, with minor rubbing and a little tanned on the back. The book's covers are sound and the binding tight. The text is clean and bright. The book is ex-library, so there are stamps on the copyright page and signs of a removed label on the front fixed endpaper. It also looks as if one of the front free endpapers has been removed. But still a neat book, all-in-all. From the sleeve notes: 'Last heard from twelve years ago in 'Bech: a Book', the peripatetic and (in his own words) "moderately well-known American Jewish writer" Bech is back, with seven wonderful new chapters from his life. We see him suffering a variety of authorial illuminations, roaming a… Read More