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Picked-Up Pieces - 1st Limited Edition/1st Printing
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394498496
- ISBN 13
- 9780394498492
- Seller
-
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394498496 . A handsome Special first edition/first printing, Limited to 250 copies SIGNED by author John Updike, this being "out of series". Unread Fine condition in Near Fine dust-jacket with sun-faded spine and minor edge wear. Very Good sunned publisher's slip-case with only minor shelf wear. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century, as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number and signature on front paste down; In this compilation of his non-fiction work, John Updike discourses on other authors, the future of the novel, feminism, the nobility of Africa and how to improve ones golf swing. He approaches his subjects wholly, grouping the reviews topically, thus giving the collection continuity and a sense of progression; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20564
- Title
- Picked-Up Pieces - 1st Limited Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394498496
- ISBN 13
- 9780394498492
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Betty Anderson, John Updike, American Novelist Short Story Writer Art Critic Poet Literary Critic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Updike, John;
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