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BECH IS BACK
by JOHN UPDIKE
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Salida, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: KNOPF, ALFRED A., INC., 1982. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: KNOPF, ALFRED A., INC., 1982. First edition, as stated. Near Fine/near fine. First edition in a first edition dust jacket. The book title page has the point "New York 1982". There is some bumping around the spine but contents are clean, tight, and bright. The dust jacket also has the first edition points: FPT on the front flap, 10/82 on the rear flap, and the ISDN on the back cover. There is some light rubbing and soiling to the dust jacket with some minor creases especially along the hinges. The flaps are not price clipped but both front and back flaps have been folded and show a crease.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West of Denver Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1450
- Title
- BECH IS BACK
- Author
- JOHN UPDIKE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition, as stated
- Publisher
- KNOPF, ALFRED A., INC.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
Terms of Sale
West of Denver Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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