Assorted Prose
by Updike John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812983777
- ISBN 13
- 9780812983777
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,. cloth, dust jacket, xii, 326 pages, Includes bibliographical references, Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing including, CONTENTS:The American man : what of him? -- Anywhere is where you hang you hat -- What is a rhyme? -- Drinking from a cup made cinchy -- On the sidewalk -- Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize -- Confessions of a wild bore -- The unread book route -- Alphonse Peintre -- Mr. Ex-resident -- Central Park -- No dodo -- Voices in the Biltmore -- Our own Baedeker -- Postal complaints -- Old and precious -- Spatial remarks -- Dinosaur egg -- Upright carpentry -- Crush vs. whip -- Me´tro gate -- Cancelled -- Morality play -- Obfuscating coverage -- Bryant Park -- John Marquand -- Two heroes -- Doomsday, Mass. -- Grandma Moses -- Spring rain -- Eisenhower's eloquence -- Mostly glass -- Three documents -- Free bee-hours -- Beer can -- Modern art -- The assassination -- T.S. Eliot -- Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu-The dogwood tree : a boyhood -- The lucid eye in silver town -- My uncle's death -- Outing : a family anecdote -- Mea culpa : a travel note -- Eclipse -- Poetry from Downtroddendom -- Snow from a dead sky -- Franny and Zooey -- Credos and curios -- Beerbohm and others -- Rhyming Max -- No use talking -- Stuffed fox -- Honest horn -- Faith in search of understanding -- Tillich -- More love in the western world -- A foreword for young readers -- Creatures of the air -- Between a wedding and a funeral -- How How it is was -- Grandmaster Nabokov. Includes "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" a story of Ted Williams last game, which Updike attended. Williams hit a home run the last time at bat. One the best American sports stories, spine shows some fade as usual, light chipping to spine ends of d.j. in protective mylar..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harry E Bagley Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11257960
- Title
- Assorted Prose
- Author
- Updike John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0812983777
- ISBN 13
- 9780812983777
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8 vo,
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Returnable upon receipt with prior notification. If paying by check, please allow two weeks for clearance.
About the Seller
Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2004
Fredericton, New Brunswick
About Harry E Bagley Books Ltd
Mail order only. 51 years as a bookseller
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