Midpoint and Other Poems

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 99pp. Solid Stated First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear though there is some foxing on the board edges and a few spots on the fore-edge. Attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($4.50), has some minor edge-wear and a short closed tear on… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a barely noticeable short tear. Signed by Updike. A nice copy of the author's third poetry collection.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small closed tears on spine crown and top rear panel. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. New. First Printing. A Fine book in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket, with the original price of $4.50 intact. A collection of poems Updike wrote at 35, taking stock of his life at "midpoint" (though he lived well past 70).

New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Small Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JOHN UPDIKE TO WILLIAM TARG. Inscribed by the author to bookseller, author and publisher William Targ, who also published The Godfather, among others. William Targ was editor and publisher at World Books and at Putnam. 98(1)pp. Bound… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a price clipped, slightly darkened jacket.

NY: Knopf, 1969. First edition, first prnt. Black and white illustrations. Inscribed by Updike on the front free endpage. "To William and Mary Ewert cheers and regards, John Updike." Tiny rub on topstain; dustjacket with spine ends just touched and beginning interior toning (not apparent on the outside). Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Foxing on the top board edge thus near fine in a fine dust jacket. Advanced Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by the author.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-toned else fine dustwrapper with a short tear, but lacking the slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.

New York: Knopf, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. viii, 98 p. illus., ports. 21 cm. Fine in an Very Good dust jacket, salt & pepper chipping to spine head, grain of sand bits chipped at extremities and a two inch closed tear to lower rear panel, virtually invisible.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author's third poetry collection.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-toned else fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author.

Alfred Knopf, NY, 1969. First edition first printing limited to 350 copies hardcover this number 191. SIGNED BY UPDIKE ON THE LIMITATION PAGE. Fine in fine dust jacket and fine publishers slipcase

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Octavo. 99pp. Gilt-stamped beige cloth. Cloth moderately soiled, else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Shown without its slipcase.

New York: Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1st edition, full tan cloth, with dust jacket. "These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one . . . " (from the jacket comments). A nice copy in like jacket. Fine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by Updike at a later date as a Christmas gift, with a drawing of Santa Claus. A nice copy of the author's third poetry collection.

(London): Andre Deutsch, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by John Updike, and scarce thus.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x0x8. Fujita, S. Neil. First edition. 1969 Hard Cover. viii, 98 pp. "In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an… Read more about this item

NY:: Knopf,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0394403835 . Second printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge, previous owner's blind-stamp on front endpage, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. .