New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo, 173 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild age toning with foxing to flap edges and price clipped front flap. Spine pictorial green with black lettering. Boards have mild age toning toward the edges. Text block has red colored head edge with slight foxing to the fore and tail edges. Gift inscription to the front free end paper. First Edition. Signed by the author to white paper tipped in to the title page. 1371493. FP New Rockville Stock.

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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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Bookseller: Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1371493
Title: OF THE FARM [INSCRIBED]
Author: Updike, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1965

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