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Princeton: Privately Printed, 1936. Red buckram cloth, gilt titles, (13.25 x 10.25 inches), 104 pages, illustrated with architectual photographs of the exterior and interior of Club House designed by Walker & Weeks, also illustrated with student portraits grouped by section years. Cottage Club has historically been numbered among the "Big Four" eating clubs of Princeton University. F. Scott Fitzgerald, class of 1917 is listed; many literary enthusiasts visit the library of the Cottage Club where F. Scott Fitzgerald began his novel "This Side of Paradise." Laid-in the book is the a membership invitation addressed to Robert C. Lewis to join the 1940 section. An exceptionally clean, bright, and tight copy of a scarce club history. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. Folio.

New Haven: William Edwin Rudge, 1941. Black cloth, gilt titles, deckle edge, (10.5 x 7.75 inches). First Edition. 72 pages; illustrated with photograph of the author. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press Boston, Massachusetts. Provenance: owner's stamp of John R. Kelly on front front, else an exceptionally clean, tight copy. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Quarto.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Green cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket, gilt title, (8.75 x 6 inches). Later Printing. 298 pages. SIGNED by Updike on front free endpaper. A clean, tight copy in unclipped ($8.95) jacket.. Signed. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Full red leather, hubbed spine, tooled gilt decoration to spine and boards, moire silk endpapers and pagemarker, all edges gilt, (8.75 x 6 inches). 342 pages; illustrations by John Pinkney. A limited edition, privately printed and individually SIGNED by the author, John Updike, on second free endpage protected by tissue-guard. Time magazine includes this novel in its "Time 100 Best Novels from 1923-2005." An exceptionally clean, tight (unread) copy in collector FINE condition. Signed. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by John Pinkney. Octavo.

Stockholm: Gunnar Tisells Tekniska, 1925. Quarter Morocco over linen boards, gilt titles, top edge gilt, (8" x 10.5"). 951 pages; illustrated with facsimilies of silver maker marks. Swedish text. Previous owner's signature, else a clean, tight copy handsomely bound in modern morocco Size: Tall Octavo. First Edition.. Leather. Near Fine.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Full gray leather, hubbed spine, tooled gilt decoration to spine and boards, moire silk endpapers and pagemarker, all edges gilt, (9.5 x 6.75 inches). 718 pages, plus maps; illustrations by Harlan M. Krakovitz. A limited edition, privately printed and individually SIGNED by the author (Leon Uris) on second free endpage protected by tissue-guard. The acclaimed historical novel about the founding of the state of Israel. An exceptionally clean, tight (unread) copy in collector FINE condition. Signed. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Harlan M. Krakovitz. Thick Octavo.